RIP (Read In Progress) Wednesday

[quillpunk]

Time just keeps on rolling by, huh. What are you reading? 👀

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[shipperslist]

Currently reading Sinophagia horror anthology. It's a bit uneven but interesting.

[pauraque]

I'm also reading a horror anthology, Never Whistle at Night. "Uneven but interesting" is a fair description (often the case with anthologies).

[screechfox]

I'm in between books at this exact moment!

I finished Provenance by Ann Leckie yesterday, which I enjoyed, and I'm trying to decide if I want to go straight into the most recent book in that universe, Translation State, or if I want to take a break with something literary/classical; Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities is waving at me from my bookshelf.

[angelcage]

Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities is a quick read! And I have a bias as someone's who area of study is urban studies, but I think it's great. It feels like a long work of poetry as much as it is a novel.

[screechfox]

:D I've picked it up and am a little way through, and I'm intrigued by it so far, and enjoying the descriptions. I will say that I'm not a very poetic soul, so I may end up bouncing off it in the end, we'll see.

[angelcage]

Yeah, it might not end up working for you, but I'm glad you gave it a try!

[silversea]

I loved Translation State even more than Provenance, if that helps you make a decision! But I understand the need for a break from the series.

[screechfox]

I'm really looking forward to Translation State, and I probably would be picking it up shortly, but I've just had a library hold come in, so it'll have to wait!

[silversea]

Well, that makes the decision then! I'll be looking forward to your thoughts on Translation State whenever you get around to it.

[angelcage]

Slowly chewing my way through Neuromancer by William Gibson! I have to do a lot of reading for class right now, so it's taking a back seat to going through academic papers.

[sixbeforelunch]

Currently, my media time and energy is being taken up mostly by DC Animated with occasional forays into other visual media, but I did manage to finish Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five and I have Superbloom by Nicholas Carr out from the library and hopefully will get motivated to start it soon. I've read two other books about technology and society by Carr and I liked both of them, so hopefully this one will be good also..

[aflaminghalo]

The Vampire Lestat (again). I was siezed with a powerful need to read the part where Lestat and Louis reunite, which lead to me re-reading Interview, which means I'm probably not going to stop until I hit the Queen of the Damned.

Also Night Gaunts, a collection of short stories by Joyce Caroll Oates. I'm still making my mind up about this one.

[volkameria]

Picked up A Pie to Die For because I loved Gretchen Rue's other cozy books, but this one just isn't quite as good - the worldbuilding feels weaker, often contradicting itself to suit whatever the heroine needs, and the characters feel more stereotypical. The banter and vibes are immaculate as always, though, and it's a very quick read.

Nearly done with Mindhunter, and looking for another nonfiction book to read.

[dualscreen]

Oh wow, I was not expecting to see another Fuga fan on this site! Great taste with Sheena, btw.

[volkameria]

Holy crap, another Fuga fan out in the wild! There are dozens of of us!!

Thank you! Sheena is my favorite, along with Britz, Mei, and Kyle - they're all really good. Stoked for the third game, can't believe it'll be out in May.

[petrea_mitchell]

I finished Origin Uncertain and am planning to donate it onward. I learned a few interesting things (not necessarily about language, such as the existence of Notes and Queries) but the entries were starting to develop a sameness toward them toward the end.

Now I'm reading The Golem and the Jinni. At a little over a hundred pages in, it's currently far better than both the last book I read about a golem in NYC (The Golem of New York) and the last book I read that included a djinn in NYC (American Gods).

[dancesontrains]

I loved reading 'The Golem and the Jinni' <3

[matsushima]

I'm working my way through Talia Lavin's Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America but it's heavy and I have to keep taking breaks.

[greetingsfrommaars]

still Robert Macfarlane's Underland: A Deep Time Journey! the most recent section was about his trek across an avalanche-prone mountain range to reach a cave with prehistoric paintings, which somehow felt even scarier than the parts about caving.

[zenigotchas]

I have read so much Sonic The Comic recently that I've def got my opinions now. Holy fucking shit it's so good.

Made more progress on Beyond Good and Evil. I think I need to look up some guides for this so I understand Neech's takes better, lol.

I killed some time out today with a book on penguins called The Behavior of Penguins, my favorite parts were learning about how penguin blood functions differently from other bird's blood (related to how they swim and survive underwater) as well as some of their evolutionary history and mysteries. I also liked learning about penguin fossils.

[raspberrysweettea]

I've started the first book in Wings of Fire because I'm having trouble with the books on my reading list, even the ones I was extra excited about. I hear it's popular with the younglings, so I think it will help me to read something easier for a bit.

[dualscreen]

Officially 4/5ths done with Lord of Chaos by Robert Jordan, and, wow, a whole lot of plot beats set up in the previous entry are all getting addressed all at once. I think I might be done with the book by next Wednesday, but for sure the Wednesday after that. I don't think I'm quite prepared for the Wheel of Time Slog I keep hearing about...

[pedanther]

I'm doing a reading challenge designed to help make inroads on large collections of unread books, and it's going really well in the sense that every book I've started reading this month has been moved to the discard pile after the first few chapters because I didn't give a fig about any of the characters or their problems.

I've just started reading The Visitors by Clifford D. Simak, which isn't wowing me so far but I'm probably going to finish it before putting it on the discard pile.

[cornerofmadness]

silent are the dead, a mystery I wanted to love. I do not.

[quillpunk]

that's a shame :(

[cornerofmadness]

It is because it's a Kiowa character written by a Kiowa author but so far I'm more annoyed than anything by this.

[valoise]

Five years ago in the early days of the pandemic I decided to start reading the Discworld books and bought a random box of books on eBay to start. I read Wee Free Men first. Then plunged into Snuff not realizing it was among the last books Pratchett wrote in that series. It inspired me to gradually read through all of Discworld in a somewhat random order. Last week I decided to reread Snuff. I definitely got so much more out of this time now that I knew more about the universe.

What also struck me was how relevant it is to the current situation in the world - a group of wealthy elites decide that they are the law and oppress an entire group of sentient beings to squeeze out a profit to bolster their own wealth and greed.

[vampiricprose]

a lot of things at once, a couple of mangas (death notwe and attack on titan) as well as chain of? gold? i think by cassandra clare :)