What I've Read
Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone – Finished for the book club - This rocks. I first read it in like 2017 and I had forgotten a lot of the plot, but it holds up and I really liked the mystery of thing.
Rescued by the Married Monster Hunters by Ennis Rook Bashe - I really was expecting this to have a bit more angst? It's actually quite sweet for a story where cannibal monsters lay their larva in people? I'll definitely read more by this author, since it's good writing, but I think it could have used another editorial pass to smooth some parts out a bit.
Fox in the Henhouse by Umei_no_Mai - https://archiveofourown.org/works/35239420 - Clone Wars au - Fox meets a Jedi best described as a horrible goose, and finds out about the mind control that a Sith has been using on him. Other high points: the food descriptions and Seire's alcohol preferences, the delicious poisons they compare Fox to, the idea of a senatorial walrus flattening assassins, the unrelenting horniness of clones towards people who can kick their asses, the Grievous smushed tin can solution, the brotherly oneupmanship, I just loved this fic. There are a bunch of other works with this Jedi OC, and I'm bookmarking a bunch of them. (This isn't quite novel length, but I enjoyed it enough to rec it!)
Kettle of Shig by PaxDuane https://archiveofourown.org/works/41957355 - Pre-Clone Wars story focused on two OC's who are, eventually, Jango Fett's parents. This is the first big thing I've read by PaxDuane and I'm going to go thru a lot of their backlog now. This is about the Fett family and Mandalore in the generation before Jango Fett is born and then orphaned - Jango's mom is an Vizsla OC who is the sister of Tor Vizsla, aka, the guy who kills Jango Fett's parents in the comics canon. Yeah. It's got the vibe of good Game of Thrones fic in terms of family and politics are the same thing. This is so precise and so painful and it feels so perfectly at the balance point of a disaster you can see a mile off but you can't do anything about it until it hits you. Just, all the little details of Tor being petty and self absorbed and choosing to hurt people, over and over again.... It's there so early. This was a wonderful portrait of a family where their politics and their interpersonal dynamics tie directly into each other. Super cute things: SPAR! Baby Jango! The togruta family history! The Billabas! The Jewishness of the Fetts! Also not quite novel length, but great.
Field Work by thosenearandfarwars (Restricted - let me know if you need an AO3 invite) - https://archiveofourown.org/works/43625916 - this is an adorable short fic in which Cody Fett is a Maori lesbian doing field work in the US grasslands, and Obi-Wan is the large animal vet running the annual buffalo round-up. It's a really charming meet-weird and comes with a great set of links for anyone interested in climate change, indigenous fire management, and grasslands habitat.
What I'm Reading:
Marae - https://archiveofourown.org/works/31072724
the weakness of falling in love by roquen https://archiveofourown.org/works/28464324 - The Untamed - Lán Huàn | Lán Xīchén/Mèng Yáo | Jīn Guāngyáo - The murder goblin gets his man after being barred from marriage.
Still reading (holdovers)
Westerns: Making the Man in Fiction and Film by Lee Clark Mitchell - slightly on hold
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 - Slowly
What I'll Read Next:
Gideon the Ninth - I now have conned two book clubs into reading this on the same timeline.
Over the holiday I'm doing some traveling and bringing NK Jemisin's The World We Make, Frey Marske's A Restless Truth, and Susanna Clarke's Pirenesi with me for pleasure reading.
Library books in the house:
Tiger's Daughter - K Arsenault Rivera
The Book of the Unnamed Midwife - Meg Elison
The Uncle's Story - Witi Ihimaera
Owned and need to read: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, Scum Villain's Self-saving System, Tom Stoppard, invention of love.
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