RIP (Read In Progress) Wednesday

[quillpunk]

The bell is ringing, the flag is waving; the time has come at last. What are you reading? 👀

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[yhlee]

- Still enjoying Susan Coolidge's late 19th century children's book What Katy Did as a reread - it was a childhood favorite, and I'm chuffed to learn there are two sequels that we never had in S Korea! Basically about a rambunctious girl who sustains an injury and becomes, well, saintly during her long recovery. This had a similar appeal to me as Little Women although the latter is, at this point in time anyway, much more famous! I kinda want to reread Little Women too, but I need to get cracking on research reading for school. /o\

- About at the midway point of Elva Birch's Bear in a Birdbath and MY HEART. Shifter threesome romance with three very different people, all delightful. :3 I can't even decide who my favorite is! ♥

- Casey Hardman. Game Programming with Unity and C#: A Complete Beginner's Guide, 2nd ed. Noodling at this on the grounds that it could be fun down the line to make smol games in Unity. I am DYING to find out why we're using quaternions but it's like p. 264. Arguably related to my M.A. (which includes composition for video games).

- Reminded that the reason I didn't finish C. J. Cherryh & Jane Fancher's Alliance Rising yet is that it's leisurely so far. I'm 15% in and we're still in exposition setup. That said, I am intrigued! Just busy and ill. :] Mainly remembered this because Alliance Unbound, the sequel, just dropped and I'd preordered it. I love Alliance-Union, and my recollection is that Cherryh will often do bunches of setup and then BOOM! (Not sure about Fancher - I haven't read her individual books.)

- I picked up GURPS Vorkosigan in hopes of running a not!Vor TTRPG lite one-shot or two-shot one of these days when I'm not sick and my life is not on fire (probably some weekend or evening).

- Also really REALLY want to dig into Monte Cook's Invisible Sun: The Black Cube! It's a chonker.

[white_aster]

...ok, so I went and looked up Bear in a Birdbath book and one thing led to another and it's now your fault that I've got a book about a flamingo shifter seducing a baker on my wishlist. ;P

[yhlee]

I'm not sorry - I'm biased as I know the author, but genuinely I think that's an especially delightful series. :3 FLAMINGOES. The author is also an engineer so she puts a lot of thought into details in a way that's still fun in a light-hearted romance. (One of my other faves of hers, very different, is the charming steampunk f/f All Manner of Hats, which involves a murder mystery and a milliner who makes magical hats!)

[white_aster]

ok, I'll really have to check out her stuff, then. I love me a lighthearted premise for my steamy romance, especially when someone has put thought into it. :D