RIP (Read In Progress) Wednesday

[quillpunk]

Surely it's still Wednesday somewhere in the world, so... what are you reading? 👀

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[white_aster]

What I just finished reading:
- Convergence Problems by Wole Talabi - good! solid African-inflected sci-fi. My problem with short story collections is that i often want a more fleshed-out story than the length allows, but this collection had some good, satisfying bits in it.

- Starter Villain by John Scalzi - I devoured this in two days. It sucked me in and did its banter and sarcastic eat-the-rich theme very well, and then kind of left me hanging. I just need to stop expecting Scalzi to nail the emotional beats. In the books of his I've read, emotion is never his strong suit or his point. Hoping that he'd take the complex quasi-familial emotion landscape he'd used as backdrop and actually RESOLVE any of it in a satisfactory manner was just expecting too much.

What I'm reading now: The Naked Sun by Isaac Asimov. Back to the classic sci-fi grindstone. Already I've had to roll my eyes several times at the human detective main character doing something childish and doofy out of sheer pigheadedness. I wonder if he's SUPPOSED to come off that way? Or if this is just how Real Men were written Back In The Day?

What I'll be reading next: I already have A House With Good Bones by T. Kingfisher downloaded from the library. I'm not much of a horror reader anymore, but I liked Kingfisher's style in her Saint of Steel series, and a friend recced this to me, so we'll see. Like the Asimov, if I don't end up liking it...eh, it's short.

[senmut]

Oh thank you for the reminder! I never finished reading African Futurism which I was enjoying... several years ago? Huh. Well, I can grab it for my next book, even if it is an anthology.

[white_aster]

I read...I think it was Africa Risen?, another good anthology of stories, and it was good, too!

[quillpunk]

All those books sound very interesting! :D Starter Villain is something I've been debating trying to get my hands on, lol.

Good luck with your new reads!