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Wednesday Reading Meme - Dec 14 2022
Dec. 14th, 2022 04:27 pmWhat I've Read
A soul that's born in cold and Rain/ knows sunlight by KillBothTwins - Part 2 of the Massive Machinery of Hope - This is a pretty nice continuation of the "Obi-Wan goes back in time as his youngers self and saves the Republic". A well told and competent story that handles the fixits with a deft hand and also allows Obi-Wan to heal, just a bit, and rely on his friends. As a story that addresses slavery and the Hutt crime syndicate, this hit a lot of the plot points I would really like to see addressed in the social rebuilding of the post-Republic GFFA.
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/33144037
Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey - Ohh, this was a great book to read in the middle of my Great Queer Supernatural Re-Watch section on Westerns and masculinity. This is a semi-historical, semi-dystopian, very Western story about a young queer woman who escapes an unwanted marriage in a violently heteropatriarchal future-US by fleeing to a team of wandering librarians. The whole thing is just so young and tender and lifegiving - Esther gets time and space and queer elders to follow as she figures out how to imagine a future for herself that doesn't involve dying young or staying in the closet.
Link: https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/0df3f760-2c94-440b-9299-7ced9100027b
A Star to Steer By by dogmatix and norcumi - This is a very fun Stargate crossover with Star Wars that reimagines the Jedi as the benevolent version of Goa'uld (mind controlling parasite alien snakes who set themselves up as gods over primitive human populations around the galaxy.) This has a lot of great discussions where people who really, really want to be allies have to figure out how to handle the serious cultural and technological differences that arise when you're trying to do diplomacy across a galaxy. It's a softer version of the life of the clone troopers, and a more diplomatic hero-y version of the Stargate SG-1 team. It's ongoing but this first entry stops in a good place.
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/series/1441522
What I'm Reading: Still reading (holdovers)
Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone - a re-read for the bookclub. I read this first in like 2016, and zoomed thru the whole of this series. I think it's funny and sharp and I'm enjoying the re-read of the whole series.
Westerns: Making the Man in Fiction and Film by Lee Clark Mitchell - I was supposed to read a chapter this week but between medical stuff and house guests, no go.
Moby Dick by Herman Melville - Whale Weekly - new chapter in the inbox today (Extracts supplied by a sub-sub-librarian)
Carry On by Tamryn Eradani - on hold
2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson - on hold
What I'll Read Next:
Gideon the Ninth - some lovely friends of mine are going to read this together and I have glommed on. I had tried before and got about halfway before life got in the way.
Library books in the house:
Tiger's Daughter - K Arsenault Rivera
Penric's Demon - LM Bujold
The Book of the Unnamed Midwife - Meg Elison
The Uncle's Story - Witi Ihimaera
NOS4A2 : a novel / Joe Hill. (My library did a thing where you borrow the book and the movie at the same time, and Scaredy Cats Horror videos did a video on it a while ago and I'm curious about both of them.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nFFY8SStrg (spoilers))
Owned and need to read: NK Jemisin's The World We Make, Frey Marske's A Restless Truth, California Bones, the Grief of Stones by Katherine Addison, Raven Song by IA Ashcroft, Kraken's Sacrifice by Katee Robert, Even Though I Know the End by CL Polk, True Colors by Karen Traviss, At The Feet of the Sun by Victoria Goddard, Tamryn Eradani's Enchanting Encounters Books 2 and 3, Like Real People Do by EL Massey, Rescued by the Married Monster Hunters by Ennis Rook Bashe, Scum Villain's Self-saving System, Tom Stoppard, invention of love.
A soul that's born in cold and Rain/ knows sunlight by KillBothTwins - Part 2 of the Massive Machinery of Hope - This is a pretty nice continuation of the "Obi-Wan goes back in time as his youngers self and saves the Republic". A well told and competent story that handles the fixits with a deft hand and also allows Obi-Wan to heal, just a bit, and rely on his friends. As a story that addresses slavery and the Hutt crime syndicate, this hit a lot of the plot points I would really like to see addressed in the social rebuilding of the post-Republic GFFA.
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/33144037
Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey - Ohh, this was a great book to read in the middle of my Great Queer Supernatural Re-Watch section on Westerns and masculinity. This is a semi-historical, semi-dystopian, very Western story about a young queer woman who escapes an unwanted marriage in a violently heteropatriarchal future-US by fleeing to a team of wandering librarians. The whole thing is just so young and tender and lifegiving - Esther gets time and space and queer elders to follow as she figures out how to imagine a future for herself that doesn't involve dying young or staying in the closet.
Link: https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/0df3f760-2c94-440b-9299-7ced9100027b
A Star to Steer By by dogmatix and norcumi - This is a very fun Stargate crossover with Star Wars that reimagines the Jedi as the benevolent version of Goa'uld (mind controlling parasite alien snakes who set themselves up as gods over primitive human populations around the galaxy.) This has a lot of great discussions where people who really, really want to be allies have to figure out how to handle the serious cultural and technological differences that arise when you're trying to do diplomacy across a galaxy. It's a softer version of the life of the clone troopers, and a more diplomatic hero-y version of the Stargate SG-1 team. It's ongoing but this first entry stops in a good place.
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/series/1441522
What I'm Reading: Still reading (holdovers)
Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone - a re-read for the bookclub. I read this first in like 2016, and zoomed thru the whole of this series. I think it's funny and sharp and I'm enjoying the re-read of the whole series.
Westerns: Making the Man in Fiction and Film by Lee Clark Mitchell - I was supposed to read a chapter this week but between medical stuff and house guests, no go.
Moby Dick by Herman Melville - Whale Weekly - new chapter in the inbox today (Extracts supplied by a sub-sub-librarian)
Carry On by Tamryn Eradani - on hold
2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson - on hold
What I'll Read Next:
Gideon the Ninth - some lovely friends of mine are going to read this together and I have glommed on. I had tried before and got about halfway before life got in the way.
Library books in the house:
Tiger's Daughter - K Arsenault Rivera
Penric's Demon - LM Bujold
The Book of the Unnamed Midwife - Meg Elison
The Uncle's Story - Witi Ihimaera
NOS4A2 : a novel / Joe Hill. (My library did a thing where you borrow the book and the movie at the same time, and Scaredy Cats Horror videos did a video on it a while ago and I'm curious about both of them.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nFFY8SStrg (spoilers))
Owned and need to read: NK Jemisin's The World We Make, Frey Marske's A Restless Truth, California Bones, the Grief of Stones by Katherine Addison, Raven Song by IA Ashcroft, Kraken's Sacrifice by Katee Robert, Even Though I Know the End by CL Polk, True Colors by Karen Traviss, At The Feet of the Sun by Victoria Goddard, Tamryn Eradani's Enchanting Encounters Books 2 and 3, Like Real People Do by EL Massey, Rescued by the Married Monster Hunters by Ennis Rook Bashe, Scum Villain's Self-saving System, Tom Stoppard, invention of love.
