RIP (Read In Progress) Wednesday

[quillpunk]

I completely forgot it was Wednesday yesterday. It just never occurred to me. So this is your regularly scheduled reminder that if I miss this post and it's definitely Thursday in all time-zones, it's okay to post it in my stead!

Also, what are you reading? 👀

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[petrea_mitchell]

Finished Well of Shiuan. Solid planetary romance again, but this time the setting feels like it owes more to Tolkien than Burroughs.

I read all of Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues, which gave me a few interesting tidbits, but was overall disappointing. Partly because it doesn't actually focus on eight specific plagues, but rather has general discussions of plagues in eight periods of history, and partly because "World" is taken to mean "whatever bits of the planet had a lot of white people in them at the time".

Now reading Rocket to the Morgue, a murder mystery about science fiction writers from an author who wrote both sf and mysteries. Entertaining so far.

[yhlee]

Aww, bummer about Pathogenesis.

In that vein, I really loved Wayne Biddle's A to Z A Field Guide to Germs (ca. mid-1990s for the 1st ed.?) but don't know how well it holds up - I have a terrifying number of doctor relatives but have zero medical credentials myself. I remember being favorably impressed by the mixture of humor and human compassion, though.

[phantomtomato]

I’ve started Brideshead Revisited for the third time. I’ve made it past the first chapter on this go, so I think I have a shot of actually finishing it in September. I think the frame story aspect is the cause of my struggle; I’m just generally less into war stories than I am into novels about society and class, and although I know this one gets to those topics, wading through the war story bits to get there is dissuasive.

[trainerlyra]

Finished up Case File Compendium volume 2 over the weekend! It took a bit, but I'm totally hooked now. Can't wait for volume 3 in October. Also finished up the audiobook I was listening to, Perversion of Justice, which was overall very strong from start to finish. So many things I genuinely had never even heard about the case, it was really interesting.

Over the last few days I also finished the first volume of the 7th Time Loop light novels, which was way more fun than I was expecting. I immediately bought the next one and I'm about 1/4 of the way through now. It was a very productive reading week!

[zenigotchas]

Trying to read Carol Rose's Giants, Monsters, and Dragons, An Encyclopedia of Folklore, Legend, and Myth. Keyword being "trying" because this book is incredibly dry and very straight to the point, which is a bit of a disappointment after A Study of Dragons because the latter was able to make the myths so much more exciting by diving into how history, culture, art, and religion synthesized legendary creatures, which was a lot more engaging too. It's just like reading a typical google search result: "The Shaggy Spotted Wrinkled Snarklewif is an obscure river deity from the even more obscure lands of Mustardland. It had the power to sneeze really loudly and......"

It's also like 400 pages.... ;______; On the other hand each description is brief, it's only 400 pages because it's basically a bunch of little blurbs about several myths over several pages. But still that's a lot.

Wish me luck on this quest. Sooner I finish means the sooner I get to read more enjoyable things.

[silversea]

Been a slow reading week, since I wasn't in the mood to read my in-progress books so I did a bunch of other things.

I'm currently reading Nekomonogatari White by Nisio Isin, and hoping to return to Sailing to Sarantium by Guy Gavriel Kay.

[olivermoss]

Current audiobook is Under The Whispering Door by T J Klune. Not sure about it yet.

Current ebook is Evocation by S T. Gibson. I've barely started it because I just DNF'd a different m/m book. Reviews looks very promising, so here's hoping

[matsushima]

I'm currently juggling The Rest of Us Just Live Here (reread), Strange Creatures (reread) and Carrie (new to me) - but I think I need another book, something to read at night when I wake up because The Rest of Us Just Live Here is my work-read and Strange Creatures and Carrie are too heavy/scary for middle-of-the-night-can't-get-back-to-sleep books.

[azurelunatic]

I just finished the first collection of Bridgerton novels.

We've finished up The Curse of Chalion audiobook, and are on Paladin of Souls, one of my all-time favorites. My partner the medievalist recognized every member of that first pilgrimage party.

[cornerofmadness]

Don't Let the Forest In by CG Drews. A YA horror that'll be out in October. I'm enjoying the arc, BUT there is a lot of flowery descriptions and the protagonist has major anxiety issues and every other paragraph is about that so it's getting to be a bit much.

Also reading Execution Dock by Anne Perry, one of her inspector Monk stories, so far not her best work

[adrimett]

I'm about halfway through Jo Walton's Among Others, and I recently started the 1st book of Natsu Hyuuga's The Apothecary Diaries series. Both of which I'm enjoying a lot!

[meteordust]

I just finished Wolf's Blood by Jane Lindskold, which I thought was a satisfying end to the Firekeeper Saga, a fantasy series about a young woman raised by wolves. Though I wished I could have a post-canon epilogue of where-are-they-now, maybe a Yuletide request?

Then I discovered there are still two more books in the series! I'm very happy to have been wrong.