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kitewithfishWhat I've Read
Hello and welcome to the Between Days, where I have vacation from work and my family has cleared out and I'm mostly free to please myself!
So, uh, instead of reading the things that I said I would read, I read the first two volumes of The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System (Ren Zha Fanpai Zijiu Xitong) by Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù - it's delightfully tropey and a really fun book, tho I don't know if I'm getting all the references to the genre it's goofing on. In some ways, it's got a Northanger Abbey vibe, in that it's satire of a genre that I read before I was particularly familiar with the main genre itself. I find myself a little dissatisfied with some of the translation choices, but I'm aware that's a taste thing.
In fanfic news, I have gone on a Jedusaur re-reading spree and consumed uh, 80K of fic across 12 fic in three fandoms?
The main culprit : This Is Why We Can Have Nice Things by jedusaur - Marvel Comics, Bucky Barnes/ Hawkeye (from the comics, not Renner) https://archiveofourown.org/works/43892967 - In which Clint and Bucky figure out their issues and allow themselves some nice things.
What I'm Reading:
NK Jemisin - The World We Make - Still great, an excellent book to be reading as accompaniment to my current travel.
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
Marae - https://archiveofourown.org/works/31072724 - on hold
the weakness of falling in love by roquen https://archiveofourown.org/works/28464324 - The Untamed - Lán Huàn | Lán Xīchén/Mèng Yáo | Jīn Guāngyáo - - on hold
What I'll Read Next:
Gideon the Ninth - I now have conned two book clubs into reading this on the same timeline! Muahahaha.
I'm still traveling and I have 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, Tom Stoppard, invention of love.
Hello and welcome to the Between Days, where I have vacation from work and my family has cleared out and I'm mostly free to please myself!
So, uh, instead of reading the things that I said I would read, I read the first two volumes of The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System (Ren Zha Fanpai Zijiu Xitong) by Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù - it's delightfully tropey and a really fun book, tho I don't know if I'm getting all the references to the genre it's goofing on. In some ways, it's got a Northanger Abbey vibe, in that it's satire of a genre that I read before I was particularly familiar with the main genre itself. I find myself a little dissatisfied with some of the translation choices, but I'm aware that's a taste thing.
In fanfic news, I have gone on a Jedusaur re-reading spree and consumed uh, 80K of fic across 12 fic in three fandoms?
The main culprit : This Is Why We Can Have Nice Things by jedusaur - Marvel Comics, Bucky Barnes/ Hawkeye (from the comics, not Renner) https://archiveofourown.org/works/43892967 - In which Clint and Bucky figure out their issues and allow themselves some nice things.
What I'm Reading:
NK Jemisin - The World We Make - Still great, an excellent book to be reading as accompaniment to my current travel.
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
Marae - https://archiveofourown.org/works/31072724 - on hold
the weakness of falling in love by roquen https://archiveofourown.org/works/28464324 - The Untamed - Lán Huàn | Lán Xīchén/Mèng Yáo | Jīn Guāngyáo - - on hold
What I'll Read Next:
Gideon the Ninth - I now have conned two book clubs into reading this on the same timeline! Muahahaha.
I'm still traveling and I have 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, Tom Stoppard, invention of love.
