Wednesday Reading Meme
May. 25th, 2022 01:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kitewithfishWhat I've Read
The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry by C.M. Waggoner (Book Club ) This is a solidly plotted story in a well-built world. I felt like there was a potential for either a little more in the third act for the criminal plot, but one of the things I appreciated about this book was that the protagonist react to horrible violence with actual trauma - so I'm not sad it ended when it did. A book that is very interested in class and in violence done by economics, and also how necromancy can be used to make drugs. Trans character! Cultural normative queer relationships!
Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Hugos 2022 Nominee for Best Novella) - I really like the concept of this book! One character thinks their setting is a high fantasy and they are seeking help from a wizard. One character thinks he's an anthropologist abandoned on a distant human colony world that fell back into feudalism. Delightfully, neither is completely right in their interpretations of the world that they are seeing! Very much a book that could be put into conversation with The Thing (1982) in terms of questions about how to face a future where your death is assured. Not bleak, tho.
What I'm Reading
Monstress, Vol. 6: The Vow by Marjorie M. Liu with Sana Takeda (Illustrator) (Hugos 2022 Nominee for Best Graphic Story or Comic) - I am so lost in the book. I almost cut out this category because so many of these are collections from an ongoing story, and I definitely feel like I walked halfway into Dracula and needed to ask who Van Helsing is. I'm going to dig into a wiki and see if I can figure this out any better. But I kind of think that the main character might have started a war.
Monsters in the Closet by Harry Benshoff - An ongoing and excellent nonfiction entry into the Great Queer Supernatural Rewatch Project. I'm on Chapter 2 this week, "Shock Treatment: Curing the monster queer during World War II" and it's making me think I need to watch Dracula's Daughter.
What I'll Read Next
A Master of Djinn, Far Sector, Something in the Blood, Once and Future: Parliament of Magpies, Die: Bleed, Bedlam Stacks, Space Opera, For the Wolf, Golden Age .... look, I just got a lot of books out from the library.
Books I Bought
- Seeing Like an Activist, How to Survive A Plague, Make Sew and Mend
The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry by C.M. Waggoner (Book Club ) This is a solidly plotted story in a well-built world. I felt like there was a potential for either a little more in the third act for the criminal plot, but one of the things I appreciated about this book was that the protagonist react to horrible violence with actual trauma - so I'm not sad it ended when it did. A book that is very interested in class and in violence done by economics, and also how necromancy can be used to make drugs. Trans character! Cultural normative queer relationships!
Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Hugos 2022 Nominee for Best Novella) - I really like the concept of this book! One character thinks their setting is a high fantasy and they are seeking help from a wizard. One character thinks he's an anthropologist abandoned on a distant human colony world that fell back into feudalism. Delightfully, neither is completely right in their interpretations of the world that they are seeing! Very much a book that could be put into conversation with The Thing (1982) in terms of questions about how to face a future where your death is assured. Not bleak, tho.
What I'm Reading
Monstress, Vol. 6: The Vow by Marjorie M. Liu with Sana Takeda (Illustrator) (Hugos 2022 Nominee for Best Graphic Story or Comic) - I am so lost in the book. I almost cut out this category because so many of these are collections from an ongoing story, and I definitely feel like I walked halfway into Dracula and needed to ask who Van Helsing is. I'm going to dig into a wiki and see if I can figure this out any better. But I kind of think that the main character might have started a war.
Monsters in the Closet by Harry Benshoff - An ongoing and excellent nonfiction entry into the Great Queer Supernatural Rewatch Project. I'm on Chapter 2 this week, "Shock Treatment: Curing the monster queer during World War II" and it's making me think I need to watch Dracula's Daughter.
What I'll Read Next
A Master of Djinn, Far Sector, Something in the Blood, Once and Future: Parliament of Magpies, Die: Bleed, Bedlam Stacks, Space Opera, For the Wolf, Golden Age .... look, I just got a lot of books out from the library.
Books I Bought
- Seeing Like an Activist, How to Survive A Plague, Make Sew and Mend
