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kitewithfishWhat I’ve Read:
City of Stairs – Robert Jackson Bennett – Ok, this is a bit of a pacy read with some good world building and a great main character. It sets things up nice and slow and delivers on them throughout the book consistently. I really enjoyed it! The main character is from Fantasy South Asia
Monstress, Vol. 7: Devourer by Marjorie Liu (illustrated by Sana Takeda) (Hugo nominee for best comic) – Once again, I am torn between wishing I had started reading this when it came out and wishing the Hugos would only nominate single works in the comics category. This is beautiful and full of characters who are probably very important to the plot, only I don’t know anyone who wasn’t in volumes 1 and 6. I am begging the author to include a page with the headshots and names of each character in the collected volumes – the first volume came out in 2015, it’s been a while.
What I’m Reading:
Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes – Rob Wilkins – 31% - Hugos 2023 Best Related Work Nominee (Delightful!)
Kristeva Powers of Horror – 51% - continues bewildering with an interesting side of “Are you really sure that the documentary hypothesis unambiguously supports what you’re saying about the Hebrew Bible, bc you keep citing it like it does? You didn’t have nearly this many citations when you were talking about religion’s function in “““primitive cultures”””, dear author.”
Dracula – Keeping up with Dracula Daily
The Count of Monte Cristo – 46% - Static
The King in Yellow 25% -static
What I’ll Read Next
Horror: a very short introduction Darryl Jones.
The artist's reality : philosophies of art Mark Rothko
Helpmeet Naben Ruthnum.
Fun home : a family tragicomic
Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow
Nettle & Bone
The Kaiju Preservation Society
The Spare Man
Still Just a Geek: An Annotated Memoir
Owned and need to read: California Bones, Raven Song by IA Ashcroft, Kraken's Sacrifice by Katee Robert, At The Feet of the Sun by Victoria Goddard, Tamryn Eradani's Enchanting Encounters Books 2 and 3, 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, Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle
City of Stairs – Robert Jackson Bennett – Ok, this is a bit of a pacy read with some good world building and a great main character. It sets things up nice and slow and delivers on them throughout the book consistently. I really enjoyed it! The main character is from Fantasy South Asia
Monstress, Vol. 7: Devourer by Marjorie Liu (illustrated by Sana Takeda) (Hugo nominee for best comic) – Once again, I am torn between wishing I had started reading this when it came out and wishing the Hugos would only nominate single works in the comics category. This is beautiful and full of characters who are probably very important to the plot, only I don’t know anyone who wasn’t in volumes 1 and 6. I am begging the author to include a page with the headshots and names of each character in the collected volumes – the first volume came out in 2015, it’s been a while.
What I’m Reading:
Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes – Rob Wilkins – 31% - Hugos 2023 Best Related Work Nominee (Delightful!)
Kristeva Powers of Horror – 51% - continues bewildering with an interesting side of “Are you really sure that the documentary hypothesis unambiguously supports what you’re saying about the Hebrew Bible, bc you keep citing it like it does? You didn’t have nearly this many citations when you were talking about religion’s function in “““primitive cultures”””, dear author.”
Dracula – Keeping up with Dracula Daily
The Count of Monte Cristo – 46% - Static
The King in Yellow 25% -static
What I’ll Read Next
Horror: a very short introduction Darryl Jones.
The artist's reality : philosophies of art Mark Rothko
Helpmeet Naben Ruthnum.
Fun home : a family tragicomic
Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow
Nettle & Bone
The Kaiju Preservation Society
The Spare Man
Still Just a Geek: An Annotated Memoir
Owned and need to read: California Bones, Raven Song by IA Ashcroft, Kraken's Sacrifice by Katee Robert, At The Feet of the Sun by Victoria Goddard, Tamryn Eradani's Enchanting Encounters Books 2 and 3, 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, Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle
