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Wednesday Reading Meme -
What I've Read
The Dragon's Bride by Katee Robert - It's delightful smut about a heroine fucking a humanoid dragon and finding true love. It's cute and fun and moderately smutty.
I want to sing the praises of Catherynne Valente again - after reading The Past is Red (and conning my book club into reading it even tho we are normally strictly novel-based), I was really impressed with her ability to make a sentence feel like a poem, meaning stuffed into each word in a compact sting. I read her short story, "The Sin of America" last week and holy fuck, this is an excellent piece to render the creeping self indulgent malaise on my country's soul palpable. Highly recommend.
What I'm Reading
I enjoyed Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry so much that I'm actually semi reading Unnatural Magic by CM Waggoner due to enjoying her other book. However, I fell asleep listening to the audiobook sometime last week and I have not kept track of the characters or plot and I'm honestly considering starting over. Not a resounding recommendation for my skills as a reader!
Monsters in the Closet remains a great book for anyone who likes to do a little learning about history while also reading about subversively queer monster movies. I'm on chapter three, about the repressions of the 50's, and the details about HUAC's impact on queer people working in government were upsettingly timely. It's great stuff and I need to watch Ghost Ship before the end of the week for my little discussion group.
What I'll Read Next
Many Hugo Nominees are in my reading future! I have bamboozled my book club into reading A Master of Djinn for our next month's book so I'm putting that on my back burner. We've got a novella, Sisters of the Vast Black, to read between then and now, tho I might give that a skip because I don't get to join the conversation for that week (time zones). I have one more novel to read for the Hugos, She Who Became the Sun, which I hope to get into over the vacation. I just got Never Say You Can't Survive by Charlie Jane Anders from the library so I might make that my starting foray into the Best Related Work category
The Dragon's Bride by Katee Robert - It's delightful smut about a heroine fucking a humanoid dragon and finding true love. It's cute and fun and moderately smutty.
I want to sing the praises of Catherynne Valente again - after reading The Past is Red (and conning my book club into reading it even tho we are normally strictly novel-based), I was really impressed with her ability to make a sentence feel like a poem, meaning stuffed into each word in a compact sting. I read her short story, "The Sin of America" last week and holy fuck, this is an excellent piece to render the creeping self indulgent malaise on my country's soul palpable. Highly recommend.
What I'm Reading
I enjoyed Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry so much that I'm actually semi reading Unnatural Magic by CM Waggoner due to enjoying her other book. However, I fell asleep listening to the audiobook sometime last week and I have not kept track of the characters or plot and I'm honestly considering starting over. Not a resounding recommendation for my skills as a reader!
Monsters in the Closet remains a great book for anyone who likes to do a little learning about history while also reading about subversively queer monster movies. I'm on chapter three, about the repressions of the 50's, and the details about HUAC's impact on queer people working in government were upsettingly timely. It's great stuff and I need to watch Ghost Ship before the end of the week for my little discussion group.
What I'll Read Next
Many Hugo Nominees are in my reading future! I have bamboozled my book club into reading A Master of Djinn for our next month's book so I'm putting that on my back burner. We've got a novella, Sisters of the Vast Black, to read between then and now, tho I might give that a skip because I don't get to join the conversation for that week (time zones). I have one more novel to read for the Hugos, She Who Became the Sun, which I hope to get into over the vacation. I just got Never Say You Can't Survive by Charlie Jane Anders from the library so I might make that my starting foray into the Best Related Work category