Wednesday Reading Meme
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kitewithfishTiny Life Update - I've been sick all weekend and took three days off work to recover from what I hope is just an annoying cold. (PCR test taken and results coming in soon, tho, so hopefully I can rest assured about that.)
Since I was a bit too sick to focus on books, I binged watched few things - The Untamed (Netflix) and A League of Their Own (Amazon) - it's hard to say which was more gay. I started Untamed back in 2020, of all times, and it's only been with some cultural handholding and fannish support that I finished it recently - but, man, did they NAIL an ending there. A League of Their Own was wonderful as a period piece, and I think they did a fantastic job with the cast and chemistry and the complexity and joy of being a queer woman in America in 1943. I heartily recommend it.
What I've Read
Battles of the Linguist Mages - Scotto More - Still great, slightly slower now that we've met God and he's collaborating with aliens trying to stop the sovereign nation of California from enacting mind control on the world at large. It's kind of impossible to spoil this book in any way that matters.
Heir to the Empire - Timothy Zahn - the first Thrawn novel, now out of Star Wars canon, but beloved as a historical artifact.
Homeworld Elegy - Ashcroft_Writes - Clone wars cartoon Cad Bane centric AU - great Duros worldbuilding.
What I'll Read Next
Two Old Women - Velma Wallis
California Bones - Have put this one off too long
Since I was a bit too sick to focus on books, I binged watched few things - The Untamed (Netflix) and A League of Their Own (Amazon) - it's hard to say which was more gay. I started Untamed back in 2020, of all times, and it's only been with some cultural handholding and fannish support that I finished it recently - but, man, did they NAIL an ending there. A League of Their Own was wonderful as a period piece, and I think they did a fantastic job with the cast and chemistry and the complexity and joy of being a queer woman in America in 1943. I heartily recommend it.
What I've Read
A Strange and Stubborn Endurance - Foz Meadows - I unabashedly loved this book. The marketing talks about the set up - a semi-medieval/semi-magical setting where with a surprise arranged marriage between two men. That's definitely there and I don't want to undersell it - but the thing that this book really excelled at was portraying a character recovering from multiple kinds of trauma who is hurt by those things in a lasting way, but also really intelligent and strong and smart and kind, who is absolutely adored by the man he's assigned to marry. I honestly love the dynamic between the two main characters, the writing gets the POV down great, and I read this in a day. Absolutely captivating for me.
I read some fanfic, too!
an act too often neglected by Ariaste (Untamed fanfic, 60K, Meng Yao/Lan XiChen modern au) This fic was an absolute delight to read just after finishing the Netflix series because these two characters spend literally the last five episodes of the series having an emotional breakdown of their complicated relationship, including attempted murder and tearful confessions of devotion while impaled on a sword. I really truly thought that fandom was overstating their whole deal and I was WRONG. This fic is about two much happier versions of these characters finding out what it's like to truly want someone for the first time, and how to translate that into some deeply amazing smut. Ariaste is a published author and I adored her last book (Alexandra Rowland, A Taste of Gold and Iron, 2022) and if you read that, this is a great next story.
To Earthward by blackkat, gh0st_rose - (Star Wars Clone Wars cartoon au, Fox/Quinlan Vox) This is a horror story about an eldritch forest that mind controls people, and, also, a love story about a policeman who cannot take a vacation and a spy. Also really funny at times.
What I'm ReadingI read some fanfic, too!
an act too often neglected by Ariaste (Untamed fanfic, 60K, Meng Yao/Lan XiChen modern au) This fic was an absolute delight to read just after finishing the Netflix series because these two characters spend literally the last five episodes of the series having an emotional breakdown of their complicated relationship, including attempted murder and tearful confessions of devotion while impaled on a sword. I really truly thought that fandom was overstating their whole deal and I was WRONG. This fic is about two much happier versions of these characters finding out what it's like to truly want someone for the first time, and how to translate that into some deeply amazing smut. Ariaste is a published author and I adored her last book (Alexandra Rowland, A Taste of Gold and Iron, 2022) and if you read that, this is a great next story.
To Earthward by blackkat, gh0st_rose - (Star Wars Clone Wars cartoon au, Fox/Quinlan Vox) This is a horror story about an eldritch forest that mind controls people, and, also, a love story about a policeman who cannot take a vacation and a spy. Also really funny at times.
Battles of the Linguist Mages - Scotto More - Still great, slightly slower now that we've met God and he's collaborating with aliens trying to stop the sovereign nation of California from enacting mind control on the world at large. It's kind of impossible to spoil this book in any way that matters.
Heir to the Empire - Timothy Zahn - the first Thrawn novel, now out of Star Wars canon, but beloved as a historical artifact.
Homeworld Elegy - Ashcroft_Writes - Clone wars cartoon Cad Bane centric AU - great Duros worldbuilding.
What I'll Read Next
Two Old Women - Velma Wallis
California Bones - Have put this one off too long
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Date: 2022-09-29 02:18 pm (UTC)