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kitewithfish ([personal profile] kitewithfish) wrote2023-10-04 02:49 pm

Wednesday Reading Meme - October 4 2023

What I’ve Read
I missed logging last week’s reading, so I’m doubling up.

Worried Whippet: A Book of Bravery by Jess Bolton – This is an adorable graphic novel/ illustrated book about an anxious dog. It me. My sister made me read this to her.

Time in the Hourless Houses by blackkat – long and still not complete Star Wars fic focusing on the ultra rarepair of Jaster Mereel/ Xanatos du Crion – at 32 chapters, it’s 141K and counting of Victorian arranged marriage Jedi shenanigans. https://archiveofourown.org/works/40193973

A Mirror Mended - Fractured Fables #2 by Alix E. Harrow – Hugo nominee for Best Novella – Cute, cannot be understood without last year’s entry in this series, but a fun and interesting look at a character with a chronic illness and some delicious

What I’m Reading:
To Shape a Dragon's Breath - Moniquill Blackgoose – 50%
A Marvellous Light - The Last Binding #1 by Freya Marske – rereading via audiobook, a delight 78%
A Strange and Stubborn Endurance - The Tithenai Chronicles #1 by Foz Meadows – 59%

I think it’s time to declare these abandoned as I haven't made progress on them in a while. 
Dracula Daily
Thud! By Terry Pratchett
Kristeva Powers of Horror – 51%
The Count of Monte Cristo – 46% - Static
The King in Yellow 25% -static

What I’ll Read Next:
House of Leaves – The Discord book group has picked this to read next! We’ll see how it goes!
Murderbot Diaries 1 +2 for Xing Book club
City of Blades – Robert Jackson Bennett Xing Book Club

Hugos Short Stories and Novelettes:
“The Difference Between Love and Time” Catherynne M. Valente (Someone in Time: Tales of Time-Crossed
“A Dream of Electric Mothers” Wole Talabi (Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction
“Resurrection” Ren Qing (Future Fiction/Science Fiction World
“The Ghost of Workshops Past” S.L. Huang (Tordotcom)
“D.I.Y.” John Wiswell


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, "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
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[personal profile] theskywasblue 2023-10-05 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
House of Leaves is a real beast to tackle. And it will bend your brain into a pretzel. Definitely a love it or hate it kind of book.