RIP (Read In Progress) Wednesday

[olivermoss]

It's Wednesday y'all, how goes the reading? Are the TBR lists getting shorter or longer?

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[screechfox]

Read both Ancillary Mercy and the Headley translation of Beowulf.

Now I'm on But the Ships are Sailing- Sailing by Chiyono Sugimoto Kiyooka, a memoir of moments in her life in post-WW2 Japan. Honestly, wouldn't recommend trying to track down a copy unless you're A) very into post-WW2 Japan, or B) very into the life and times of the author's mother, Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto (which is the category I'm in, and why I spent, uh, about £100 on it). I'm just over halfway through and if it were any other book, I would probably DNF.

I've also just started Edge of Destiny, a novel set in the universe of the Guild Wars games.

My physical books TBR is about breaking even: I've read eight books this year and bought seven!

[olivermoss]

Your TBR list has balance!

The three Guild Wars novels are on my TBR list (and I really thing ANet is missing a trick by not having audiobooks of them. A lot of GW2 peeps like to listen to lore while they play. I know they gave permission to WoodenPotatoes to read them for this channel ages ago, but afaik that never happened)

[screechfox]

It does have balance! My bookshelves, maybe not! :D

I read the first one of the GW2 books a few years ago - Ghosts of Ascalon. Fun in a predictable sort of way, and really rewarding with little bits of lore. I'm enjoying Edge of Destiny even more so far, just because it's more connected to the GW2 main plot. (And again, lore. Although the sylvari are slightly odd in them, since they were written pre-the sylvari redesign to be proper plant people. It still works, just occasional references to their hair!)

It would be really nice if there were audiobooks of them; I definitely agree about listening to lore when playing, and I've also found it a really good podcast game in the past. I guess they were published before the audiobook boom of Audible and all that.

[olivermoss]

I haven't read any of the GW2 books yet. I picked them up in December, because it seemed like a lot of people who play were reading them. Didn't get around to them yet. I've heard good things, though.