RIP (Read In Progress) Wednesday

[pauraque]

It's Wednesday! What are you reading?

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[rekishi]

I finished "To be taught, if fortunate" by Becky Chambers today, which is our likely next book club book!

[petrea_mitchell]

Since the last RIP post, I have picked up one book, which I'm about halfway through: Ice by Jacek Dukaj. Partly this is due to events in my home life keeping me from reading me much, but partly it's about it being a very dense and very, very, very long book.

[aflaminghalo]

The Great and Secret Show by Clive Barker. I've devoured it in a way that's really making the last book I read (i won't name but dnf'd, atrocious) seem even worse in comparison.

[phantomtomato]

I’ve got two books in-progress this week: The Leather Boys (1961) by Gillian Freeman, which is about a relationship between two working-class men in London. It also features one of those character’s relationship with his aging grandmother, and I’m finding that aspect harder to get through (in a ‘good’ way, because it feels very authentic), so despite the shortness of this book I’m reading it in parallel.

The second is Women in Love (1920) by D. H. Lawrence, which has been in my e-reader forever but I wasn’t motivated to start until I found a nice vintage copy. It’s rather long. I’ve only read two chapters, but the second chapter ends by establishing a really interesting line of repressed attraction between some characters, so I’m beginning to feel drawn in.

[rhi]

I've been binge rereading the JD Robb 'In Death' books -- yes, all of them, because I'm insane. But I've been reminded of the Westing Game and am gonna pull out my decades old copy and reread it.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

I just finished Lucasta Miller's Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph which I enjoyed. I'd welcome any more rec's of poet's biography or autobiography.

[dark_phoenix54]

Still on A Spy For the Redeemer, by Candace Robb. I think I posted it last week. It's interesting but some of the characters don't really grab me-hopefully that'll change at some point. The era interests me, and she has put a lot of details that brings the time and place to life.

[cornerofmadness]

Stay for a Spell an arc of a cozy fantasy that I'm really enjoying about a princess who gets cursed and trapped in a small town bookstore.