RIP (Read In Progress) Wednesday

[pauraque]

It's Wednesday! What are you reading?

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[merrileemakes]

I am reading Gender Uphoria by Yvette Pike. I'm really enjoying it but it's billed as "psychorotica queer horror" and I think it's still building up to that. I suspect I'll drop it when shit gets real.

[althea_valara]

My library is having a spooky reading challenge this month, so I hit up Project Gutenberg and downloaded some classics: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Frankenstein, and Dracula. I'm only a chapter into Dracula so far, but it's as good as I remember it being. Must make an effort to read tonight, I do want to complete this reading challenge because I'll get FREE CANDY!!

[pauraque]

I just read Dracula! I had a lot of fun with it, though now I feel deprived that I didn't get a candy reward. XD

[zenigotchas]

The Rise and Fall of The Dinosaur by Joseph Wallace.

Issue #58 of Spawn

Got Meditations by Marcus Aurelius and that looks exciting to devour, alongside Thus Spake Zarathustra! by my pal good ol' Fried Rich Neech

I have much to do

[pedanther]

Harley Quinn: Redemption by Rachael Allen, the third book in a YA thriller trilogy set in the DC Universe.

Also following along with Around the World in Eighty Emails.

[silversea]

Finished The Very Secret Society for Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna for a book club. Cute, cozy, nice for this month, but I probably will forget about it soon enough.

Just started reading A City on Mars by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith. I watched For All Mankind earlier this year, so I'm fond of the idea of space exploration and am ready to have it all shattered.

[petrea_mitchell]

Finished The Dance of Shadows and now reading the last of the Aldiss Award finalists, Dreadful. It's a comedy but unfortunately not quite my kind of comedy.

[cornerofmadness]

The Cat Who Saved Books, not liking it nearly as much as I imagined I would

[screechfox]

I finished Fly, Wild Swans by Jung Chang. Interesting, but not nearly as impactful or well-constructed as the original.

Currently in progress include The Other Olympians by Michael Waters, Black Tudors by Miranda Kaufmann (both non-fiction), and Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi (fiction, really enjoying so far).

I'm also reading Kink, a short story collection allegedly about... kink, but I'm finding it quite underwhelming and one-note right now.

[pauraque]

I enjoyed Freshwater, and I found their next novel The Death of Vivek Oji even better.

[valoise]

Flashes of Brilliance by Anika Burgess is a great history of the development and evolution of photography and photographic processes in the 19th century. In the many archives I've worked in I have had hands-on experience with photos of this era like daguerreotypes, tintypes, glass plate negatives, cyanotypes and more but Burgess really dives deep into the men and women who invented and perfected these processes and exactly what was involved in taking photos these ways. The subtitle for the book is The Genius of Early Photography and How it Transformed Art, Science and History. Sums it up pretty well.

[rabbit_stew]

Reading Mona Awad's new Bunny book, We Love You, Bunny. I have been looking forward to this book for months. It's just as wickedly funny and subversive as the first.

I'm also reading another sequel, Rose of Jericho by Alex Grecian. The original, Red Rabbit was great.

I want to read Harlan Ellison's short story, I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream today.