Recent books

-The Princes in the Tower, Alison Weir. I've been meaning to read about Richard III since reading The Dragon Waiting, oh, what, fifteen years ago now? I just love Weir's books, probably because I'm just about exactly the right audience-- I have a very passing familiarity, but I don't really know how the pieces fit together. She makes what seems like a pretty convincing case, to me, that Richard III killed the Princes. (Compare this with her solution to Who Killed Amy Dudley? in her book on Elizabeth, which I think is a very clever solution that undoubtedly would've been right if it were a mystery book... but as history... I'm not quite sure.)

It's really interesting to read this along with Dragon Waiting, and see how Ford's world is different. In particular it's fascinating to see the people who seem like they were probably decent enough, in real life, who were twisted diabolically by his alternate history, and those who weren't all that nice, who are twisted into much nicer people. Ford is so cool. Was. Wah.

-Gifts and Voices, LeGuin. I'll read anything she writes, because I love her voice, but these were kind of forgettable to me. Voices in particular had some good bits, but also some kind of dumb bits, I thought, and was forgettable enough that i"m not interested enough to discuss either of them.