Reading Meme for Jan 11 2023

[kitewithfish]

What I've Read

 

let the river run by Astolat - A Robb/Jaime/Brienne fic about finding a man worth fighting for.  It lands it! It really does! I found the ending a bit pat, but overall, I think Astolat is kind of on a roll of "redeem the fallen and hopeless knight by giving him someone worth fighting for" is a dynamic I really enjoy. 

 

Wayward encounter by May_days - This fic is based on one fic I adored and another fic that was influential in small corner of Obi-Wan/Jango Fett fandom, and well, it is novel length and I did read it all. 

Penric and the Shaman by Lois McMaster Bujold - Second novella in the Penric and Desdemona series - Bujold writes stories that feel like a well-written mystery that the main characters are figuring out along with you. This is another story where Penric, a devotee of a god whose blessings are sometimes viewed as curses, is put in a place where he's the right man for a job he didn't know he signed up for. 

 

What I'm Reading

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir - Honestly, this book is much more fun on the second attempt. I'm taking it much less seriously and I'm not trying to track everything so damned closely. 

 

When A Scot Ties the Knot by Tessa Dare - Audiobook, absurd and fun

 

On Hold but not abandoned 

The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System (Ren Zha Fanpai Zijiu Xitong) Vol. 4 by Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù with Faelicy (Translator) - on hold

The World We Make by NK Jemisin (Great Cities 2) 

Westerns: Making the Man in Fiction and Film by Lee Clark Mitchell - slightly on hold

2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson - Slowly

 

What I'll Read Next

 

The Good Lord Bird for the new book group - due after Feb 23

 

The Book of the Unnamed Midwife - Meg Elison

The Uncle's Story - Witi Ihimaera - information I gathered from elsewhere suggests this is even gayer than I thought 

 

Owned and need to read: Frey Marske's A Restless Truth, and Susanna Clarke's Pirenesi California Bones, 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.  (purchased 1/11/2023) Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty, "You Just Need to Lose Weight" and Other Myths about Fatness by Aubrey Gordon

Comments

[mab_browne]

I haven't read Gideon the Ninth - although I gave it to my daughter for a gift and should maybe borrow her copy, but I've had fun seeing NZers point out all the ways it's such a kiwi book.

[kitewithfish]

I am *really* intrigued by that element - I definitely feel like I'm reading outside my dialect and I'm enjoying it! but I'd love a kiwi primer to get the details

[mab_browne]

This person's blog looks like a potential place to start.

https://www.tumblr.com/yeahnahmateypotatey/695582488768249856/ugh-so-i-feel-like-i-need-to-add-an-nz-voice-to

Even the name of their blog is unexplainable without about a paragraph of discussion of kiwi slang and television. If you want that let me know. :-)