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kitewithfishWhat I’ve Read
The Devil in Us All – Sineala – Excellent Marvel Avengers fic – Tony and Steve in the early 1980s. Sineala is always a great writer and this has been on my TBR list for a while – the writing is lovely and the characterization is spot on. It’s got the period typical homophobia we’d expect but also engages with the fact that some kinds of queer are more acceptable than others, and the stress and shame that causes. Also, bridge as a sex metaphor? Like, the card game, which is apparently about forty times more complicated than I recalled it being.
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/36092107
Dowry of Blood – ST Gibson – Beautiful writing with a lot of visual metaphors and some lovely introspection. It’s set up like a memoir or a love letter to Dracula from the viewpoint of his oldest surviving wife after she’s killed him and is living her new life outside of his shadow. It does not follow the Bram Stoker canon, but alludes to it. This book is most interested in how and why a woman chose to enter a relationship with a controlling man and why she chose to leave it, and the metaphor is vampires. Which is a GREAT metaphor.
Not a Book - Finished Wolf 359 – Season 2 – which was great and deeply creepy. On Ep 33 now.
What I’m Reading Next
The King in Yellow 25% -static – The next story up for me would be In the Court of the Dragon
The Count of Monte Cristo – 9% - I love this for puttering around. I’m familiar enough with the set up and the plot that I can just enjoy the writing. Villefort is a delightfully shitty villain, I look forward to his downfall.
Babel – Xing Book Club – 29% Enjoying the mental duplicity
A Bride for the Prizefighter – Alice Coldbreath – 9% - Audiobook, really fun marriage of convenience story in a Victorian period – I picked this up because a podcast I like, Reformed Rakes, did a great run thru of it. So I’m thoroughly spoiled but they made a great case for the book on its writing.
What I’ll Read Next
This is How You Lose the Time War for Xing Book Club next next book
Library books have piled up so I’m going to try and add them and propel myself forward on that.
Unnatural magic / C.M. Waggoner.
For the wolf / Hannah Whitten.
Horror: a very short introduction / Darryl Jones.
The last unicorn / Peter S. Beagle
The spear cuts through water / Simon Jimenez.
Helpmeet / Naben Ruthnum.
The way home : two novellas from the world of The last unicorn / Peter S. Beagle.
The artist's reality : philosophies of art / Mark Rothko ; edited and with an introduction by Christopher Rothko.
The Devil in Us All – Sineala – Excellent Marvel Avengers fic – Tony and Steve in the early 1980s. Sineala is always a great writer and this has been on my TBR list for a while – the writing is lovely and the characterization is spot on. It’s got the period typical homophobia we’d expect but also engages with the fact that some kinds of queer are more acceptable than others, and the stress and shame that causes. Also, bridge as a sex metaphor? Like, the card game, which is apparently about forty times more complicated than I recalled it being.
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/36092107
Dowry of Blood – ST Gibson – Beautiful writing with a lot of visual metaphors and some lovely introspection. It’s set up like a memoir or a love letter to Dracula from the viewpoint of his oldest surviving wife after she’s killed him and is living her new life outside of his shadow. It does not follow the Bram Stoker canon, but alludes to it. This book is most interested in how and why a woman chose to enter a relationship with a controlling man and why she chose to leave it, and the metaphor is vampires. Which is a GREAT metaphor.
Not a Book - Finished Wolf 359 – Season 2 – which was great and deeply creepy. On Ep 33 now.
What I’m Reading Next
The King in Yellow 25% -static – The next story up for me would be In the Court of the Dragon
The Count of Monte Cristo – 9% - I love this for puttering around. I’m familiar enough with the set up and the plot that I can just enjoy the writing. Villefort is a delightfully shitty villain, I look forward to his downfall.
Babel – Xing Book Club – 29% Enjoying the mental duplicity
A Bride for the Prizefighter – Alice Coldbreath – 9% - Audiobook, really fun marriage of convenience story in a Victorian period – I picked this up because a podcast I like, Reformed Rakes, did a great run thru of it. So I’m thoroughly spoiled but they made a great case for the book on its writing.
What I’ll Read Next
This is How You Lose the Time War for Xing Book Club next next book
Library books have piled up so I’m going to try and add them and propel myself forward on that.
Unnatural magic / C.M. Waggoner.
For the wolf / Hannah Whitten.
Horror: a very short introduction / Darryl Jones.
The last unicorn / Peter S. Beagle
The spear cuts through water / Simon Jimenez.
Helpmeet / Naben Ruthnum.
The way home : two novellas from the world of The last unicorn / Peter S. Beagle.
The artist's reality : philosophies of art / Mark Rothko ; edited and with an introduction by Christopher Rothko.
