RIP (Read In Progress) Wednesday

[quillpunk]

It's Wednesday! What are you reading? 👀

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[senmut]

The only reading I managed was a skim re-read of four separate books in the Dragonriders of Pern series, to get character notes for an upcoming fic.

Mind you, that meant there were SEVERAL parts I KEPT reading, even though I knew I needed to keep moving on, LOL.

[olivermoss]

I am in the middle of Episode Thirteen and really enjoying it so far!

[sleepyquail]

Rereading Assassin's Quest by Robin Hobb (again.....)! I've only got a little bit left at the end (maybe 8%) and it always makes me cry like a baby. I fucking love these books so much auuughhh.

[vriddy]

Oh, I haven't re-read them in so long! Some of the themes have resonated with me for years later, it would be so interesting to get back to them. Enjoy that last 8%! :)

[givemeyourhonor]

I finished Dark Heir by C.S. Pacat and I'm just... but why would you end it like that? I'm full of emotions and I'm dying knowing that I'll have to wait for the third part. Also, I can't really figure out how we're going to resolve everything in the third book or if this is going to be unhappily ever after.

On another note, I have a volume of manga (Cherry Magic) to catch up with, then I think I'm going to the next book within reach on my bed, which is Prince of the Sorrows by Kellen Graves. I don't know much about it though I'm interested in seeing where the premise goes.

[svgurl]

I'm reading The Blonde Identity by Ally Carter. It's a romcom/action oriented book about a woman who wakes up with complete amnesia and finds out that she's the twin sister of a spy that everyone is trying to track down. The spy's partner (who was also looking for her) ends up protecting her and the two of them go on the run. It's cute and fun so far.

[starfleetbrat]

I am currently reading The English Understand Wool by Helen DeWitt. Its a short novella, and not something I would usually read. Just trying to read outside my comfort zone I guess. I'm only a few chapters in, and its ok so far but its only 64 pages so even if it ends up being terrible I will probably still finish it lol
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60864326-the-english-understand-wool

[white_aster]

What I've finished: Ghost in the Cowl by Jonathan Moeller. My first book by this author, picked up an omnibus somewhere for cheap. A lowish fantasy about a spy who in mourning dead friends took an assignment to go build up the spy circle in a foreign city. She manages to get involved with freeing slaves, stealing from the rich, terrifying slavers, and foiling the nefarious plans of powerhungry mages. A solid premise. You'd think that I'd enjoy this! And I kind of did, for about the first half, before the book started to feel like a very competently done outline with no soul to it. It was well paced, well-edited, I just...felt like it was really lacking some...originality? Creativity? I'm not even sure. It kind of read like a video game.

Then I just absolutely devoured Paladin's Grace by T. Kingfisher. First I'd read of hers, and wow, I liked it! From the blurb about the main male character's dead god, you'd wonder if this was some kind of gritty fantasy, but no, it was mostly also a low-ish fantasy about a paladin mourning what he's lost, but then it rapidly becomes a romance with some touches of mystery/detective-ing to it. Then toward the end it became a bit of a courtroom procedural, and if this sounds like a lot to stuff into one book, it kind of was? The genre conventions of each didn't always mesh, and some of the plotlines felt really underdeveloped. Not to mention, everything came together kind of suspiciously well in the end, despite how far off the rails it had all gone. But.... But. This was a book with some 30/40ish characters who read as adults, mature in their own ways and flawed in others, which was a relief after romances where everyone feels like an overdramatic teenager. These folks had gone through the fire already, and though they were understandably upset when the fire threatened again, they kept their dumb mistakes to a minimum. Also, though I could have done without some of the internal stream of consciousness monologue that could get annoyingly off-topic and often made the main female character seem ditzy when she really wasn't, there was a lot of fun banter and I immediately put every other book in that series on hold at the library.

What I'm reading: Started Convergence Problems by Wole Talabi. I'd forgotten I'd put this on hold. I'm not big on short story collections, but this one is a lot of interesting African-inflected sci-fi, so it's going along quickly.

What I'll read next: The Naked Sun by Isaac Asimov is also ready for me. I kind of hope it's a bit better than The Caves of Steel.

[vriddy]

I just started the Terraformers, by Annalee Newitz! A friend recommended it to me warmly and I jumped in blind. Still in the early stages and not sure where it will go yet, but excited to find out! I'm spotting more and more places with interesting plot potential, haha.

[quillpunk]

Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree (which I finished like 2 seconds ago but look it was still Wednesday when I started reading it so it counts, okay) and A Boy and His Dragon by R. Cooper. No progress has been made on Children of Time since last time but I will get there eventually. Someday.

[peaceful_sands]

Oops, checking in a bit late but still here. I finished 'Catseye' by Andre Norton, 'Vespertine Dreams' by Aster Rye and 'Night of the Black Dragon' by Melanie Ansley earlier in the week along with 'Mitosis' by Brandon Sanderson, 'The Family Remains' by Lisa Jewell and 'Girl Forgotten' by Karin Slaughter on Wednesday.

I'm now reading 'The Immortal Games' by Annaliese Avert, 'The Good Girl's Guide to Murder' by Holly Jackson and 'Cloud Runner' and 'Dragon class' *this is the main story sequel to last week's Night of the black dragon'.