I have an annual tradition of canceling all plans on the first big snow day and reading a book cover to cover. As we were chatting about the forecast last night I was telling friends that I didn’t think I’d be able to do it this time because there’s just too much to do at the end of the semester but they were like nooooo it’s your tradition! And then there was SO MUCH SNOW this morning so I did cancel class and then after working all day I was like ah screw it and grabbed this nice short book off the to-read shelf. It was kind of perfect.
I don’t read speculative fiction that often and so it was a nice change of routine. Straightforward, briskly paced, interesting blend of affable and creepy. Tinged with sexism, yes, but it was written in the 1960s, what do you expect. It was engaging and kind of charmingly quaint, as far as sci-fi imagination goes. I liked it.
Kasia Reads 