RIP (Read In Progress) Wednesday

[quillpunk]

Here we are again, still spinning on this round earth. ...What are you reading? 👀

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[white_aster]

Still reading The Blighted Stars by Megan E. O'Keefe, and still really enjoying it. We have hit the point where secrets come out and the two leads have to deal with the fallout, and I am still enjoying how they're being actual, fairly professional adults about this romance. The sci-fi aspects continue to be interesting and get more messed up as we go along, and I approve.

I also am burning through Penric's Demon by Lois McMaster Bujold. Nice minor nobility gets a surprise demon suddenly sharing his body. The series, I believe, will involve said nice minor noble and his demon becoming a sorceror and spy and occasional detective. So far, I like Pen, I like Desdemona, and I'm enjoying how the two of them are slowly just eyeing each other and going, "well, we're not going to follow ALL their rules, now are we?" Do approve.

[petrea_mitchell]

Still working my way through Origin Unknown, which goes best if I do just a few entries at a time.

[volkameria]

I finished The Housekeepers by Alex Hay - a fun heist novel about disgruntled maids robbing the house of their former employer blind during a gala. It was enjoyable to read but they kept making the former employer more and more evil until it was simply ludicrous.

Also finished Several People are Typing by Calvin Kasulke, a novella about a man who gets trapped in his company's Slack instance. Quite unhinged; it's good but hard to recommend. It's written entirely in Slack messages, so there's a lot of :typed_emojis: and jumping between different groups of people.

I'm currently enjoying Mindhunter (nonfiction, true crime), and Shady Hollow (fiction cozy mystery) as audiobooks, and have been on a big cozy mystery kick recently. Thinking of starting either The Banned Books Club or A Flicker in the Dark next.

[skye_writer]

I am ostensibly (re)reading Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie, but I haven't touched it in a few days. Maybe this evening??

[asphaltcowgrrl]

I started an ARC of The Shots You Take by Rachel Reid and it's tearing my heart out at 20%.

[pauraque]

About to start The Light Eaters by Zoë Schlanger, a nonfiction book about plants. Ed Yong recommended it in his newsletter, and I adore his popular science writing, so my hopes are high!

[screechfox]

I'm still working my way through Trans Britain: Our Journey From The Shadows, but it's been slightly repetitive so I haven't felt much of a pull to continue it. I'm just going a chapter at a time.

Fiction-wise, I've been revisiting the Wicked Lovely series by Melissa Marr, because I've got a cold so I want something unchallenging so I thought some YA faery romance would do me some good. They're a lot darker than I remember them being, though! I'm on the third book right now, Fragile Eternity. That's the furthest I've got in the series, because it took me a while to track down the last two books, so I'm looking forward to finally getting them read.

[valoise]

Read What Feasts at Night by T. Kingfisher, a bit more of a horror book than I'd normally go for, but I enjoyed it.

Doctor Who and the Pyramids of Mars by Terrance Dicks was great. He included extra scenes both at the beginning and the end that provided extra content not seen in the show and that made the story better.

Hotel Keepers, Head Waiters, and Housekeepers Guide is an 1846 book by Tunis G. Campbell, only the second published cookbook by a black author in the US.

[barbaratp]

Atualmente uma série mcdanno no ao3, de brumeier, chamada Sagebrush Tales. Além disso continuo com meu livrinho de mistério (O Escaravelho do Diabo, de Ana Lúcia Machado) que estou lendo a passos lentos *g*

[dancesontrains]

Susan Stryker's 'Transgender History', second edition. It really needs a subtitle marking it as US history on the cover. I'm half way through, it's very solidily researched as far as I can tell. Fascinating how much preferred terms change, at least in English speaking communities - this edition is from 2016 and the author's use of 'trans*' in the prologue is already a sign of that time.

Ryan North and various artists' Fantastic Four ongoing comic, issues 23 - 27, to be collected in a few months as 'Vol 5: Aliens, Ghosts and Alternate Earths' according to Goodreads. And issue 28 after that to catch up fully.

[greetingsfrommaars]

still Robert Macfarlane's Underland: A Deep Time Journey! everyone i talk to about it looks at the cover and asks if it's a sci-fi book lol. (it is in fact nonfiction.) i'm now on the third section, after finishing the part about cave systems and tunneling in the Alps.

[dualscreen]

Slowly but surely picking my way through Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series. I'm currently on the sixth book, Lord of Chaos. It's been for the most part quite enjoyable thus far and a lot of plot points have gotten rolling in the second half of the book. I do hear that the next few books are a bit drawn out though.

[sixbeforelunch]

Another week of minimal reading but I made a little progress in Slaughterhouse Five.

[silversea]

Dropped Don't Let the Forest in by C. G. Drews and Metal from Heaven by August Clark.

I wanted to like Metal from Heaven given what I heard about it, but I just couldn't like the narration at all.

Started reading The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories, a collection of Chinese SFF short stories.

[cornerofmadness]

Still working on the Disco Witches of Fire Island and started Silent are the Dead

[quillpunk]

congrats on the progress! :D

[quillpunk]

reading The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien

[pauraque]

Off topic, but I love your icon! It's so pretty and it brightened my day.

[screechfox]

Nice, best of luck with the reread! I read it for the first time last month and it feels like a book that'll be a really rewarding reread when revisited.

[screechfox]

Thank you! :D I take no credit for it but I like it a lot too.

On topic, I've added The Light Eaters to my wishlist after looking it up, so I'll be interested to hear if it's good!

[screechfox]

Ooh, Transgender History is on my list, but I prioritised my current read (Trans Britain) because I suspected it would be US-focused, so I'm slightly vindicated! Looking forward to reading it, though. It is interesting how quickly these things can become dated, but that at least makes them a nice time capsule!

[screechfox]

How are you finding The Way Spring Arrives? I've had that on my wishlist for a while out of curiosity.

[pauraque]

Nice! I'm only a couple of chapters in, but enjoying it so far.

[dancesontrains]

Yes, it is - it's still worth reading imo, but I find it frustrating when stuff like that doesn't have 'US' added to the cover for context. Like I flicked through a 'Politics for Dummies' book at a charity shop once, and it was focused entirely on US systems and states.

[silversea]

Unfortunately, I've been reading very slowly (only two stories so far), and I was neutral on both stories. I'll let you know when I read more of the collection!