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What I’ve Read:
Not a damn thing.
What I’m Reading:
Romancing Mister Bridgerton- Julia Quinn – 50% Some friends of mine in a reading discord were lamenting the beginning of season 3 and in particular the romantic leads lack of history together. I started the book up to see how it would compare, and it definitely outstrips what the show manages. It looks like the show changed a lot of the story, not just enough to account for the excellent decision to do race blind casting, but also some major timelines of Penelope and Colin’s lives – they are getting entangled nearly a decade earlier than the show, and their friendship makes much more sense as the basis for a romantic turn in the book. The show also leaned into the Whistledown publication to be the avenue of actual scandal that ruins people’s lives, while the book takes great pains to show that Whistledown has a soft heart for people who aren’t in control of their own lives – it was more about fashion and gossip than actually revealing scandalous news.
Children of Time (Xing book club) – 87% The spiders have reconciled with God but are now geared up to face an interplanetary threat.
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York– Robert Caro – 31% - static, but I have followed the podcast ahead of the book.
Saint of Bright Doors – Hugo – Audiobook
The Spear Cuts Through Water – hugos and xing book club, I have technically read about 1 page
Battle Ground, Jim Butcher - sigh.
What I’ll Read Next:
Desperate Glory
Hugo Nominees:
Bea Wolf Saga, Vol. 11 Translation State Starter Villain The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi The Saint of Bright Doors “Introduction to 2181 Overture, Second Edition” “Ivy, Angelica, Bay” “On the Fox Roads” “One Man’s Treasure” “The Year Without Sunshine” I AM AI Rose/House “Life Does Not Allow Us to Meet” The Mimicking of Known Successes Mammoths at the Gates “Seeds of Mercury” The Culture: The Drawings A City on Mars A Traveller in Time: The Critical Practice of Maureen Kincaid Speller, All These Worlds: Reviews & Essays “Better Living Through Algorithms” by Naomi Kritzer (Clarkesworld May 2023) “Answerless Journey” / 没有答案的航程, 韩松, “The Sound of Children Screaming” “How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub” “The Mausoleum’s Children”
Not a damn thing.
What I’m Reading:
Romancing Mister Bridgerton- Julia Quinn – 50% Some friends of mine in a reading discord were lamenting the beginning of season 3 and in particular the romantic leads lack of history together. I started the book up to see how it would compare, and it definitely outstrips what the show manages. It looks like the show changed a lot of the story, not just enough to account for the excellent decision to do race blind casting, but also some major timelines of Penelope and Colin’s lives – they are getting entangled nearly a decade earlier than the show, and their friendship makes much more sense as the basis for a romantic turn in the book. The show also leaned into the Whistledown publication to be the avenue of actual scandal that ruins people’s lives, while the book takes great pains to show that Whistledown has a soft heart for people who aren’t in control of their own lives – it was more about fashion and gossip than actually revealing scandalous news.
Children of Time (Xing book club) – 87% The spiders have reconciled with God but are now geared up to face an interplanetary threat.
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York– Robert Caro – 31% - static, but I have followed the podcast ahead of the book.
Saint of Bright Doors – Hugo – Audiobook
The Spear Cuts Through Water – hugos and xing book club, I have technically read about 1 page
Battle Ground, Jim Butcher - sigh.
What I’ll Read Next:
Desperate Glory
Hugo Nominees:
Bea Wolf Saga, Vol. 11 Translation State Starter Villain The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi The Saint of Bright Doors “Introduction to 2181 Overture, Second Edition” “Ivy, Angelica, Bay” “On the Fox Roads” “One Man’s Treasure” “The Year Without Sunshine” I AM AI Rose/House “Life Does Not Allow Us to Meet” The Mimicking of Known Successes Mammoths at the Gates “Seeds of Mercury” The Culture: The Drawings A City on Mars A Traveller in Time: The Critical Practice of Maureen Kincaid Speller, All These Worlds: Reviews & Essays “Better Living Through Algorithms” by Naomi Kritzer (Clarkesworld May 2023) “Answerless Journey” / 没有答案的航程, 韩松, “The Sound of Children Screaming” “How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub” “The Mausoleum’s Children”
