What I'm Reading

Deadhouse Gates, Book #2 in the Malazan Book of the Fallen series. Very very dark. Nobody gets out alive. There are 12? books in the series, I think (Steven Erikson). When you start any of them, you're immediately sucked into a whirlwind of action and characters -- human and nonhuman -- battling their way through continents, oceans, sorcerous realms. There's a glossary to identify characters, ethnicities, places, but I've found it hard to take a break to refer to it. I'm just muddling through without a map and enjoying the very wild ride.

Just finished  Atchafalaya Houseboat by Gwen Roland, and that's a trip in all senses of the word. Gwen and her partner, Calvin Voisin, spent 8 years in the backwaters of the Atchafalaya River Basin of Louisiana, living on a houseboat they built with no power tools, no Internet access (this was the 1970s after all...), and no previous building experience. Gwen wrote about her experiences first in the alternative magazine, Gris Gris, and National Geographic's C.C. Lockwood photographed the journey. A fairytale true story with roots deep in swamp water and mud.



C.C. Lockwood, photographer
http://beta.lpb.org/index.php?/site/programs/atchafalaya_houseboat