RIP (Read in Progress) Wednesday

[silversea]

Happy Wednesday! Are you keeping up with your reading? Falling behind?

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[silversea]

I recently finished Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke. Pretty mixed on it, I thought it would be more literary and explore the topics of tradwife/evangelicalism at length but it was more of a thriller. I think I still like it, but kind of a let down?

Just started The Tapestry of Fate by Shannon Chakraborty. Loved the first book, really looking forward to this. And the author's having an event near me, so I plan on attending!

[pauraque]

Ooh ooh ooh, that's the sequel to Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi? I loved that book too and I am thrilled to learn it's sequel time!

[silversea]

Yes it is! Very happy the sequel's finally out, it's been a bit of a wait.

[vamp_ress]

I'm listening to Richard Brautigan's "The Hawkline Monster", chuckling my way through the whole thing. Reading-wise, I'm in the middle of "Damenopfer" by Steffen Kopetzky. He's a German author writing historical novels. This on is set in 1920's Russia.

[petrea_mitchell]

Finished Ten Tomatoes The Changed the World. Great all the way to the end. Easily the best nonfiction book I've read so far this year.

19. Glory Road, which I'm reading so that I can then read a gamebook set in its universe and have some idea what's going on. Heinlein in his heyday could write terrific prose, but I wish he'd put it to better use than, for instance, spending the first few pages of the book going on a big long rant about Kids These Days.

[pauraque]

I am slowly making my way through A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine. I'm enjoying it while I'm reading it, but for some reason it isn't strongly grabbing me. I find it easy to put down and forget about. "I have some time to read now, what was I reading again? Oh right, that one!" Maybe the back half will be more compelling.

[ixalisse]

Still muddling through Feathers So Vicious by Liv Zander, the first book out of a duet. I'm just not motivated to read these days :/

[bluehavens]

I'm just about done with Project Hail Mary (read-aloud to my wife).

I just started Age of Ash by Daniel Abraham. I absolutely love 'The Expanse' and am enjoying 'The Captives' War', so I thought I'd give some of his fantasy writing a try. Not too far into it yet.

Finally, working my way slowly through Michael Horton's Shaman and Sage.

[phantomtomato]

I’m working on Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf. Her prose is great (this is my second Woolf), but I didn’t know about the book’s racism before starting it, so I’m struggling to pick it up each time.

[dark_phoenix54]

Fallen badly behind. Was still reading comic books, so I'm still on 'Tapping the Dream Tree".

[greetingsfrommaars]

finally finished The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System! my favorite parts have turned out to be the parts not about the main pairing, and i still feel... unconvinced by the pairing? glad i finished it though.

[dancesontrains]

Yeah I felt similar around the main pairing - (spoilers) I thought the consent issues of the guy Luo Binghe thinks he's falling in love with being a transmigrator were really badly handled (/end spoilers), along with some other stuff (it's been a long while since I read it so I don't recall specifics.)

I did enjoy the sense of humour around the whole thing, but that element's not really encouraged me to read anything else by the author.