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[spiralsheep]

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Aurora Australis readalong 4 / 10, A Pony Watch

[spiralsheep]

Aurora Australis readalong 4 / 10, A Pony Watch, post for comment, reaction, discussion, fanworks, links, and whatever obliquely related matters your heart desires. You can join the readalong at any time or skip sections or go back to earlier posts. It's all good. :-)

Reaction post 4 / 10:
https://spiralsheep.dreamwidth.org/666759.html

Text (warning for a pony being shot offscreen):
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Aurora_Australis/A_Pony_Watch

Readalong intro and links to discussion posts 1-3:
https://spiralsheep.dreamwidth.org/662515.html

Reminder for next week: Southward Bound by Lapsus Linguæ (anon):
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Aurora_Australis/Southward_Bound

Personal reading

[spiralsheep]

Finished reading 51. Forest of Noise, by Mosab Abu Toha, 2024, which centres around his life in Gaza in recent years. I thought Abu Toha's previous collection Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear was excellent and this new book lived up to my hopes. Warning for the author living in a war zone, obviously.

Nearly finished 52. The Museum of Whales You Will Never See: And Other Excursions to Iceland's Most Unusual Museums, by A. Kendra Greene, 2020, which is non-fiction (mostly) essays about the meaning and practice of making and keeping museums in the context of the 266 museums (official tourist board count) in Iceland where the population is about 330,000 people (= 1 museum for every 1250 people). Written as a cross between quirky popular travel writing and Granta's thinky-thoughts house style.

Quote: "Siggi is not a collector. There was that time he kept a belly-button lint collection to disturb his daughter-in-law - which proved effective - but with objective achieved he abandoned the project."

Next: I fancy some fiction but my concentration span is short, lol.

[soricel]

Almost done with A Lesson in Thorns, the first book in Sierra Simone's Thornchapel series. Pretty much non-stop modern Gothic horniness, and all the characters are some form of queer and/or kinky. That said, they're also pretty one-dimensional so far, but that's not stopping me from getting the second book cued up for when I'm in the mood for this particular type of escapism again.

[zenigotchas]

I forget the name but one about the history of forensic science and crimes where these different techniques were used and why they helped put the killer behind bars.

Also just more Spawn :)

I neeeeed to go back to Nietzsche

[pedanther]

Currently reading Noose: True Stories of Australians Who Died at the Gallows, which I only picked up to check off a square in a reading challenge and am not finding particularly engaging.

[drawnecromancy]

Surprisingly, I'm not reading anything !
I just finished reading Misery by Stephen King yesterday, and haven't picked up a new book from my shelf yet :) (I really enjoyed Misery ! It was fun in the "shit just keeps getting worse" sort of sense.) I'm thinking I might either get going on Kafka's Metamorphosis, or some of the books I got from free book boxes, so I can finally release them back in the wild.

[scripsi]

Fairy Tale by Stephen King and A Better Man by Lois Penny.

[poppyseedheart]

current read is idlewild by james frankie thomas for book club! quirky litfic about getting into slash fandom in high school and also imploding your relationship with your best friend who you're in love with and also about trauma recovery as an adult. i'm liking it a lot so far!

[silversea]

Finished my buddy read of Counterfeit by Kristin Chen. I wasn't really hooked to it at the beginning, it was fine but a bit heavyhanded with the stereotypes and I wasn't too comfortable with that. But then a twist came along and it really shook the whole book up in a fantastic way!

Also finished A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett, which was really fun. Looking forward to more of Ana and Din, hopefully the next book won't be a long wait.

I liked Shadow of the Leviathan so much that I decided to try Bennett's other books, so now I'm starting Foundryside.

[peaceful_sands]

I've just finished reading 'The Power of Geography: Ten Maps that reveal the future of our world' by Tim Marshall which I highly recommend to anyone interested in that kind of thing and 'Defiant' by Brandon Sanderson. Still trying to make it to the end of 'The First Four Books of Earthsea' by Ursula Le Guin - only about 40 pages left now. Also reading 'The Murderbot Diaries vol 2' and listening to 'A Deadly Education' by Naomi Novak. I've listened to the audio version of the Murderbot Diaries before but it's nice to read the written version now.

[inchoatewords]

I'm reading Idlewild by James Frankie Thomas, which is two adults looking back, in alternating chapters, at their school days and friendship at a Quaker prep school in New York in the early aughts. Livejournal is mentioned, and oh man, I'm having some serious flashbacks to the end of high school and staying up all night in my freshman year of college chatting on AIM . . .

[cornerofmadness]

I'm nearly done with my arc of We Can Never Leave

[petrea_mitchell]

Finished The Hallowed Hunt, which is a good book but felt like a very long book by the end. Just started Once Upon a Tome.

[neonpossibilities]

I finished "You & Me" by Tal Bauer (M/M romance) and "Cut & Run" by Madeleine Urban and Abigail Roux (M/M crime). Very different books, I found the former to be perfect for scratching that hurt/comfort itch. Not entirely convinced about the latter: I liked the story but I want to read the following books in the series to see if it finds feet later on.

I'm currently listening to "The Magpie Lord" by K.J. Charles and I'm in love! I'm really intrigued by this historical fantasy setting. I definitely want to know more about this universe, but there are only three books *whines* I'm almost at the end of the audiobook, so I'm already searching for other stories read by Cornell Collins, he's fantastic.

[valoise]

I finished the last of the Terrance Dicks Doctor Who novelizations that I picked up last year. This time it was The Five Doctors. There are too many Doctors and companions in this short book to give focus to anyone, really, but he did add some context to Susan's life at the beginning that she never got in the show.

Wole Talabi is one of my favorite short story writers and I was happy to pick up his second collection, Convergence Problems. His writing is sharp and both his fantasy and science fiction experiments with story telling in wonderful ways.

[lassarina]

Last week I whipped through Kaliane Bradley's The Ministry of Time (okay, but not really for me) and Deanne Raybourn's Killers of a Certain Age, which was a lot of fun and a quick read. Love me a found family. Now I am on to Sarah Rees Brennan's Long Live Evil.

[rekishi]

it's not Wednesday anymore but I'm reading "Identitti" right now.