River reads... well, she'll read anything, but what she reads a lot of by choice are physics and math journals. She'll also read poetry and religious texts, but, uh, those she edits as she goes. With copious marginalia and crossings-out to correct the text to "make sense" by her lights. (Canon!) She grew up with Shakespeare by millicanon, and a lot of fiction (Tolkien's millicanon too, along with a bunch of other stuff), but I'm not sure how much of either she reads nowadays. Not much unless someone suggests it to her, I think.
Lan says, what is this "fun" you speak of? That said, canonically he knows a great deal of poetry. (Robert Jordan cheerfully stole some samurai etc stuff for Borderlands culture.) Also history, philosophy, etc. He believes in being well-informed, both in general and in the specific realm of anything likely to become useful. In the bar, this includes a fair amount of information about London Below, various Earths, etc, because Lan does not like to be ignorant about his surroundings or the things that have important influence on the people around him.
Regan reads quite a lot. In the evenings, she likes to unwind with a fiction book or a serial novel, or an interestingly written history. Mostly these books are on the more realistic fiction side, but she'll give anything recommended to her as well-written a try.
Piotr draws for relaxation more than reading, but he reads too. Fiction in both English and Russian, and poetry. And whatever his friends recommend to him, he'll give a try. Most of what he reads is more by way of escapism than books that Address The Hard Questions Of Our Day -- he gets enough of that in his daily life. (Not tons of SF/fantasy, though, I think. It just doesn't especially appeal to him.) Probably anything to do with farming is something he'd find interesting too, fiction or not, and of course art and art history.
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River reads... well, she'll read anything, but what she reads a lot of by choice are physics and math journals. She'll also read poetry and religious texts, but, uh, those she edits as she goes. With copious marginalia and crossings-out to correct the text to "make sense" by her lights. (Canon!) She grew up with Shakespeare by millicanon, and a lot of fiction (Tolkien's millicanon too, along with a bunch of other stuff), but I'm not sure how much of either she reads nowadays. Not much unless someone suggests it to her, I think.
Lan says, what is this "fun" you speak of? That said, canonically he knows a great deal of poetry. (Robert Jordan cheerfully stole some samurai etc stuff for Borderlands culture.) Also history, philosophy, etc. He believes in being well-informed, both in general and in the specific realm of anything likely to become useful. In the bar, this includes a fair amount of information about London Below, various Earths, etc, because Lan does not like to be ignorant about his surroundings or the things that have important influence on the people around him.
Regan reads quite a lot. In the evenings, she likes to unwind with a fiction book or a serial novel, or an interestingly written history. Mostly these books are on the more realistic fiction side, but she'll give anything recommended to her as well-written a try.
Piotr draws for relaxation more than reading, but he reads too. Fiction in both English and Russian, and poetry. And whatever his friends recommend to him, he'll give a try. Most of what he reads is more by way of escapism than books that Address The Hard Questions Of Our Day -- he gets enough of that in his daily life. (Not tons of SF/fantasy, though, I think. It just doesn't especially appeal to him.) Probably anything to do with farming is something he'd find interesting too, fiction or not, and of course art and art history.