RIP (Read In Progress) Wednesday

[quillpunk]

It's Wednesday!

What are you reading? 👀

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[cactus_rs]

"The Dawn of Everything" by David Graeber and David Wengrow

[bluedreaming]

I’m reading volume 1 of The Disabled Tyrant's Beloved Pet Fish by Xue Shan Fei Hu; it’s not as cracky as I was expecting, but still pretty fun and there are lots of comedic moments.

I’m also reading volume 2 of Junjo Romantica by Nakamura Shungiku - but in French, so that’s fun. (Because these early volumes are still in print and it also happens to be a lot cheaper!) I’m mostly really wanting to get to the chapters I didn’t read when I was younger, but it’s still nostalgic to revisit this series.

[ravengown]

Currently struggling to get back into finishing literally anything. Right now it's ACOTAR, which I actually don't hate, but I also typically do enjoy fantasy romance, even when silly.

[quillpunk]

He Who Fights With Monsters book 1 by Shirtaloon (isekai litRPG adventure fantasy), Forget-Me-Not by E.M. Lindsey (m/m romance) and The Foxhole Court by Nora Sakavic (m/m romance and... all that other stuff it also is which I can not explain even though I've read the whole trilogy before.)

[rekishi]

I can relate to the "after the game" topic 🤣

[cindybug]

I'm getting to the end of The Good Son by You-Jeong Jeong. It's so tense!

[vriddy]

I'm reading Lioness Rampant, the last book of the The Song of the Lioness Tetralogy. I'd never read Tamora Pierce before and I'm enjoying it!

[eddishelen]

Oh, I love that series! I'm glad you're enjoying it :)

[givemeyourhonor]

It's been forever since I read that series, but it was such a good time.

[rekishi]

"Ocean's Echo" by Everina Maxwell

I read "The Mars House" and some thing made me recall "The Course of Honour" ("Winter's Orbit" pre-publication), so I finally read the sequel/story set in the same universe.

[exitmouse]

Ocean's Echo! We read that for my book club shortly after it came out because we were all super into Winter's Orbit. I never read Course of Honor though. I heard the broad difference between the two (published vs pre-published) was the pre-published version mainly laser-focused the story on the main couple?

[rekishi]

Yes, it basically is just Kiem and Jainan and the stakes are hmmm....lower? The whole story takes place on the planet and that whole jig with the galactic link doesn't exist.

I actually liked The Course of Honour better than Winter's Orbit, I think because "arranged marriage in space" was just fun and hijinks even with all the Taam stuff going on than it being embedded in the larger politics. Don't get me wrong, I like myself a good politics plot, but there was already plenty going on.

[exitmouse]

Oh man, I DID love the whole "five conspiracy pile-up" in Winter's Orbit, but now I'm curious to see if I could find a copy of Course of Honor somewhere just to see the differences.

[rekishi]

Pretty sure the way back machine has you covered: https://web.archive.org/web/20190328233004/https://archiveofourown.org/works/9720611/chapters/21921788

(Orrrr.....I can throw up the epub on Mega.......)

[hexmix]

starting Gemma Files' A Rope of Thorns after finishing A Book of Tongues (m/m supernatural western). but i'm also still reading Lina Rather's Sisters of the Forsaken Stars (nuns in space!), which has been very good so far.

[haitangkitty]

I'm in the process of finishing Little life.
For something comforting to read during the evening I also picked up the disabled tyrant's beloved pet fish.

[wearing_tearing]

Finished Witch Hat Atelier vol. 2 by Kamome Shirahama aaaand Gilded by Marissa Meyer earlier today. Both were enjoyable \o/

[gloss]

After finishing the new Sofia Samatar, I'm having a lot of trouble settling on my next read. Maybe CJ Cherryh's Fortress in the Eye of Time or Bujold's Curse of Chalion?

[exitmouse]

The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater. It's actually a reread for me, I was telling a friend about a particular scene in the book and felt nostalgic so I decided to give it a reread. Being more than ten years out from when it takes place now gives it a strange sense of nostalgia as the little things come up here and there that just aren't the same as they were back in 2012/2013, and having read the whole series as well as the one that comes after it I'm noticing all the little moments of forshadowing of later mysteries.

[peaceful_sands]

Sometimes it's nice to go back and revisit and appreciate the little things along the way that set up where the story goes by the end.

[exitmouse]

It's true! This author is especially good about that. There's seven books in the world (a series of 4 and another series of 3 after that) and even just a reread after the first four had me finding so many "Oh my god!" lines. I joked I should start a photo album of "Lines that went hard the first time but make you want to scream into a pillow with the context of the whole series" passages.

[eddishelen]

I'm rereading Gideon the Ninth! This is my first reread so of course I'm catching all the "Oh no, I know what that means now D:" moments.

[exitmouse]

Oh my gosh, rereading Gideon the Ninth (and the rest of the series) after reading it through is like a whole new book in some ways. The first time I did it I was spamming my group chat (we'd all read the book) with screenshots from my kindle and shouting about who knew what was really going on the whole time. I can't wait for Alecto to come out and have a whole new layer of that all over again!

[eddishelen]

I did my reread out of order - Harrow first, and I just finished Gideon. Nona next! I'm excited for Alecto as well. I think everyone will have to do a post-Alevto reread, complete with brand new moments of "oh. Ohhhhh. Oh no!" 😂

[givemeyourhonor]

I finished One Night in Hartswood by Emma Denny. It was sweet and simple. Maybe not entirely historical accurate, but that's not what I read it for. I'm going to be starting Case File Compendium: Bing An Ben by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou and I'm really exicted since it's the same author as The Huskey and His White Cat Shizun. I never finished the translation of that one, but I enjoyed it so I'm excited to see what this story has in store for me.

I also went through my goodread list and bookmarked what's available at my local library to save some money, so I'm looking forward to the future.

[svgurl]

I haven't done much reading this past week so I'm still on "The Strangler Vine" by MJ Carter. It's a little slow to start out but I think it's going to pick up.

[starfleetbrat]

Just started Ghost Station by S.A. Barnes, pretty good so far.

[peaceful_sands]

Reading through everyone's comments, there's so many new titles that I've not heard of and of the five or six that I have, I'd only read one - so served as a reminder of some of the books lurking on my TBR pile.

In the last few days up to 5 minutes ago, I've finished 'The Stranger's Wife', 'The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi', 'The Seven Daughters of Eve' and the last one 'No. 6 vol 1'. The last two were re-reads for a number of years ago.

Still reading 'The Immortal Games', 'Cloud Runner' (less than 100 pages to go on this one now) and listening to 'Missing Pieces'. I'm also re-reading 'Regretting You' as I can't remember how it - it's that strange situation, where I can't remember the whole but as I read I keep remembering what's happening in the next few pages. I'll also move on to 'No. 6 vol 2' which won't last long.