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Reading Wednesday & WiP Wednesday Memes
Mar. 9th, 2022 09:55 amLet's flip the script, shall we? Knitting first today!
Work in Progress Wednesday
Knitting! I am well underway in making my socks of the Qualifier round of Sock Madness. I'll be posting progress pics here on Ravelry - LINK. Because of the complexity of this particular pattern, I am knitting like a slow lazar - lots of focus and no speed. Thus, almost all of my upcoming reading will be audiobooks!
Reading Wednesday Meme
What I've Read
The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison with Kyle McCarley (Narrator) - (Re-Read) This book is one of those I think I can just re-read every year or so. There's a delicacy in the way Addison handles the main character's deep hurts that never neglects the entirely reasonable anger he has at what he's suffered, or lets him off the hook for the damage that an vindictive emperor could do. Since this book involves some interesting created languages, I really enjoyed Kyle McCarley's work in giving the language a consistent pronunciation and all the characters accents that match where they are coming from in the complex social structure of the book.
Audio books are often hit or miss for me, but I will have to engage with them a bit more than usual in the near future!
What I'm Reading
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin, read by ???? - I have a library audio book version of this classic, so I'm not quite sure who is doing the reading, but it's competent and this book is just as fun as I remember it being when I read it as a child.
Running with Lightning Feet by Blackkat - I'm slowly making my way thru the most recently posted chapters in the hopes that there will be updates on the edited chapters before I run out of fic.
The trouble with writing fic in the Clone Wars is that the whole campaign is really bounded by the rest of canon - in order to write a triumph for these heroes, you have to decide to end the fic before the inevitable downer ending (the clones get mind controlled by Palpatine, kill the Jedi who were their only true allies, and then died young and nameless as Sideous's cannonfodder) or take on the task of a sweeping re-write of the whole of the prequels, main trilogy, and potentially the sequel trilogy - which runs into destroying the parts of canon that most people unequivocally like. So, I don't envy Blackkat's task there, and this fic is so fucking good I'm not sure I would mind it remaining unfinished, with the future balanced on the edge of a knife.
What I'll Read Next
I'm going to have to pause and read the Supernatural essays I mentioned last week with my own meat eyes.
I have several audiobooks out from the library that I will turn to - I'm tempted to continue my current trend of re-reading beloved books, and go onto Sarah Rees Brennan's In Other Lands, but I have also pulled Stacey Abrams' While Justice Sleeps, and Robin Hobb's Assassin's Apprentice.
I have JUST looked and found the audiobook for King's Dragon by Kate Elliot on Audible, so, I'm really tempted to put those all aside and just really delve into the 1990's fantasy nostalgia of my youth.
This is all making me wonder if I should get an optical drive and really lean into getting audiobooks from the library...
EDIT: I meant to add - I would love recommendations on good audiobooks! I'm mostly into fantasy but I am happy to branch out if the narrator is particularly good!
Work in Progress Wednesday
Knitting! I am well underway in making my socks of the Qualifier round of Sock Madness. I'll be posting progress pics here on Ravelry - LINK. Because of the complexity of this particular pattern, I am knitting like a slow lazar - lots of focus and no speed. Thus, almost all of my upcoming reading will be audiobooks!
Reading Wednesday Meme
What I've Read
The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison with Kyle McCarley (Narrator) - (Re-Read) This book is one of those I think I can just re-read every year or so. There's a delicacy in the way Addison handles the main character's deep hurts that never neglects the entirely reasonable anger he has at what he's suffered, or lets him off the hook for the damage that an vindictive emperor could do. Since this book involves some interesting created languages, I really enjoyed Kyle McCarley's work in giving the language a consistent pronunciation and all the characters accents that match where they are coming from in the complex social structure of the book.
Audio books are often hit or miss for me, but I will have to engage with them a bit more than usual in the near future!
What I'm Reading
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin, read by ???? - I have a library audio book version of this classic, so I'm not quite sure who is doing the reading, but it's competent and this book is just as fun as I remember it being when I read it as a child.
Running with Lightning Feet by Blackkat - I'm slowly making my way thru the most recently posted chapters in the hopes that there will be updates on the edited chapters before I run out of fic.
The trouble with writing fic in the Clone Wars is that the whole campaign is really bounded by the rest of canon - in order to write a triumph for these heroes, you have to decide to end the fic before the inevitable downer ending (the clones get mind controlled by Palpatine, kill the Jedi who were their only true allies, and then died young and nameless as Sideous's cannonfodder) or take on the task of a sweeping re-write of the whole of the prequels, main trilogy, and potentially the sequel trilogy - which runs into destroying the parts of canon that most people unequivocally like. So, I don't envy Blackkat's task there, and this fic is so fucking good I'm not sure I would mind it remaining unfinished, with the future balanced on the edge of a knife.
What I'll Read Next
I'm going to have to pause and read the Supernatural essays I mentioned last week with my own meat eyes.
I have several audiobooks out from the library that I will turn to - I'm tempted to continue my current trend of re-reading beloved books, and go onto Sarah Rees Brennan's In Other Lands, but I have also pulled Stacey Abrams' While Justice Sleeps, and Robin Hobb's Assassin's Apprentice.
I have JUST looked and found the audiobook for King's Dragon by Kate Elliot on Audible, so, I'm really tempted to put those all aside and just really delve into the 1990's fantasy nostalgia of my youth.
This is all making me wonder if I should get an optical drive and really lean into getting audiobooks from the library...
EDIT: I meant to add - I would love recommendations on good audiobooks! I'm mostly into fantasy but I am happy to branch out if the narrator is particularly good!
