Reading Meme for February 15 2023
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kitewithfishWhat I've Read
Dark Rise by CS Pacat - I really enjoyed this! I picked the audiobook up from the library because the ebook was out and I found it was one of the few books that really worked well for me as an audiobook. I have loved CS Pacat's other series, Captive Prince, and while this is YA, I feel it has some common threads about lonely people constrained by fate trying to do good with the limited wiggle room they have.
There were some reviews that were like, "Oooooh, the twist on this book got me!" and that was about as much heads-up as I needed to spot it coming. Frankly, I didn't mind - along the way there were many interesting turns that felt earned, and where the emotional impact landed hard in the right places. Plus, the "big twist" actually does land - it's not quite The Thief, but it's got similarly wide ramifications on the book. I would love to re-read this!
I have been reading a lot of shorter fic, but it's actually been very busy and this is the only book I have read. Blackkat's February offerings have remained fun and really, really delightful.
Random selection of the stuff I have recently read and enjoyed - binder of open wounds
November Baby by astrophyllite - this sugar baby fic is off to a strong start.
Harrow the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir - still amazing, still confusing, I'm about 55% thru.
What I'll Read Next
Phoenix Extravagant for Sci-Fi/ Fantasy Book Club
The Good Lord Bird - Discord book club is talking about that Feb 25th, so I should get on that.
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. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty, "You Just Need to Lose Weight" and Other Myths about Fatness by Aubrey Gordon, Alisha Rai Partners in Crime, the Right Swipe, Aphorisms of Kerishdar
In other, non reading news, I have finished the Clone Wars cartoon at last - the project of the last few months- and I'm not sure how I feel about Season 7. It was a bit of a mixed bag- Ahsoka and Rex's ending, the final shot of Jesse's helmet, that's honestly heartwrenching. I was all set to enjoy the Bad Batch, but so far, I just feel like they are clone superheroes who cannot be harmed, and that's not really a story I'm super interested in. I am going to give it a little time to see if it develops in a way I find interesting.
Dark Rise by CS Pacat - I really enjoyed this! I picked the audiobook up from the library because the ebook was out and I found it was one of the few books that really worked well for me as an audiobook. I have loved CS Pacat's other series, Captive Prince, and while this is YA, I feel it has some common threads about lonely people constrained by fate trying to do good with the limited wiggle room they have.
There were some reviews that were like, "Oooooh, the twist on this book got me!" and that was about as much heads-up as I needed to spot it coming. Frankly, I didn't mind - along the way there were many interesting turns that felt earned, and where the emotional impact landed hard in the right places. Plus, the "big twist" actually does land - it's not quite The Thief, but it's got similarly wide ramifications on the book. I would love to re-read this!
I have been reading a lot of shorter fic, but it's actually been very busy and this is the only book I have read. Blackkat's February offerings have remained fun and really, really delightful.
Random selection of the stuff I have recently read and enjoyed - binder of open wounds
PaxDuane, A Light in the Dark by glimmerglanger, The Forest Road by blackkat
What I'm Reading
November Baby by astrophyllite - this sugar baby fic is off to a strong start.
Harrow the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir - still amazing, still confusing, I'm about 55% thru.
What I'll Read Next
Phoenix Extravagant for Sci-Fi/ Fantasy Book Club
The Good Lord Bird - Discord book club is talking about that Feb 25th, so I should get on that.
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. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty, "You Just Need to Lose Weight" and Other Myths about Fatness by Aubrey Gordon, Alisha Rai Partners in Crime, the Right Swipe, Aphorisms of Kerishdar
In other, non reading news, I have finished the Clone Wars cartoon at last - the project of the last few months- and I'm not sure how I feel about Season 7. It was a bit of a mixed bag- Ahsoka and Rex's ending, the final shot of Jesse's helmet, that's honestly heartwrenching. I was all set to enjoy the Bad Batch, but so far, I just feel like they are clone superheroes who cannot be harmed, and that's not really a story I'm super interested in. I am going to give it a little time to see if it develops in a way I find interesting.
