Wednesday Reading Meme September 9, 2023

[kitewithfish]

What I’ve Read
The Spare Man – Mary Robinette Kowalski – A g ood little mystery in space! I like the characters, I liked the author devoting time and attention to the main character’s emotional and physical past traumas and I like the cleverness of the whole thing. As a person who doesn’t read mysteries that much, I have no idea if this is good!

The Yakuza's Bias 1 by Teki Yatsuda – Adorable – I love a scary tough man wholeheartedly devoting himself to being an excellent fan of a boy band.

DUNE: The Official Movie Graphic Novel by Drew Johnson, Zid, Lilah Sturges
- Meh. Better than the other one, but not actually interesting.

What I’m Reading:
Winter’s Orbit – Everina Maxwell – like 90% done – Xing book club
Thud! By Terry Pratchett
Kristeva Powers of Horror – 51%
Dracula – Keeping up with Dracula Daily
The Count of Monte Cristo – 46% - Static
The King in Yellow 25% -static

What I’ll Read Next:
Hugos (longer stuff)
Saga Vol. 10
Ogres
A Mirror Mended

To Shape a Dragon's breath
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes – came from the library
Dresden Files (sigggh)

(I also have like, 8 short stories and novelettes to get to)

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

Comments

[theskywasblue]

I loved Winter's Orbit, personally. Once I hit the end, I wanted to go back and read it over again right away, so that I could experience everything again with new knowledge.

[kitewithfish]

Same here! I just finished this re-read and it's a testimony to how good it was - Usually, if the book club picks something I have read in the past, I often give it a miss and just go from my memory. This one was worth the re-read. Really good character work. I should probably go and re-read the next book while Winter's Orbit is fresh in my mind.

[profiterole_reads]

Yay for To Shape a Dragon's Breath!

[kitewithfish]

Credit for that one goes my book club - I had missed it until someone suggested it.