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kitewithfishWhat I’ve Read:
Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation Vol 3 – I am now officially past the halfway point of this series! I’m kind of thinking that I would like to watch the show again. This volume was the first one that had a flashback inside a flashback. I appreciate the efforts to flesh out Yanli, the older sister, and give her romance a bit more oomph. I’m now a little impressed with the show’s ability to lay all the flashbacks in a single timeline.
Speculation by Wunderlass - A North and South (2004) fanfic where Thornton and Margaret get married to save her reputation after she gets caught out late at night with a man. It's tender and a bit slow.
What I’m Reading:
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York– Robert Caro – like 7% - I jumped on the 99% Invisible bandwagon where they are “Breaking Down the Power Broker” by reading Robert Caro’s book slowly over the course of a year.
Reading schedule -
Episode 2 — February 16 — Chapters 6 through 10
Episode 3 — March 15 — Chapters 11 through 15
Episode 4 — April 19 — Chapters 16 through 20
Episode 5 — May 17 — Chapters 21 through 24
Episode 6 — June 21 — Chapters 25 through 26
Episode 7 — July 19 — Chapters 27 through 32
Episode 8 — August 16 — Chapters 33 through 34
Episode 9 — September 20 — Chapters 35 through 38
Episode 10 — October 18 — Chapters 39 through 41
Episode 11 — November 15 — Chapters 42 through 46
Episode 12 — December 20 — Chapters 47 through 50
When Women Were Dragons - Xing Book Club – 46% - Good, a bit of a companion piece to the Lady Astronaut series. The central premise hasn’t quite landed for me yet but I’ll have to see how it all shakes out in the end.
Sabriel – Garth Nix – 65% - Necromancer book club – really good book to re-read, enjoying the technical skill that Nix brings to the book quite a lot.
It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections in Horror - Joe Vallese (Editor) – SPN Seminar – 38%
The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson – 41%
What I’ll Read Next:
Lord of The Rings – in keeping with my vague sense that I should actually read the big books that everyone talks about!
Owned and need to read: Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology, California Bones, Raven Song by IA Ashcroft, 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
I’ve had a kind of a rough couple of weeks – my knee is getting better but it’s been confirmed to be a sprain and I am trying to take a careful approach so that I don’t re-injure it. We’ll see about further imaging to see if there’s anything else going on. There has been some other nonsense – all of which has been enough of a trickle that we could handle it piece by piece, but also annoying enough to mean it’s hard to manage without a bit of extra stress.
Since I’ve been laid low by physical nonsense, I have been leaning into the comfort re-watches. I finished the 1995 Pride and Prejudice, the 1995 Persuasion, and the 2004 North and South, all of which I have seen before and read the books and they really just take my whole stressed out vibe to a much calmer level.
Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation Vol 3 – I am now officially past the halfway point of this series! I’m kind of thinking that I would like to watch the show again. This volume was the first one that had a flashback inside a flashback. I appreciate the efforts to flesh out Yanli, the older sister, and give her romance a bit more oomph. I’m now a little impressed with the show’s ability to lay all the flashbacks in a single timeline.
Speculation by Wunderlass - A North and South (2004) fanfic where Thornton and Margaret get married to save her reputation after she gets caught out late at night with a man. It's tender and a bit slow.
What I’m Reading:
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York– Robert Caro – like 7% - I jumped on the 99% Invisible bandwagon where they are “Breaking Down the Power Broker” by reading Robert Caro’s book slowly over the course of a year.
Reading schedule -
Episode 2 — February 16 — Chapters 6 through 10
Episode 3 — March 15 — Chapters 11 through 15
Episode 4 — April 19 — Chapters 16 through 20
Episode 5 — May 17 — Chapters 21 through 24
Episode 6 — June 21 — Chapters 25 through 26
Episode 7 — July 19 — Chapters 27 through 32
Episode 8 — August 16 — Chapters 33 through 34
Episode 9 — September 20 — Chapters 35 through 38
Episode 10 — October 18 — Chapters 39 through 41
Episode 11 — November 15 — Chapters 42 through 46
Episode 12 — December 20 — Chapters 47 through 50
When Women Were Dragons - Xing Book Club – 46% - Good, a bit of a companion piece to the Lady Astronaut series. The central premise hasn’t quite landed for me yet but I’ll have to see how it all shakes out in the end.
Sabriel – Garth Nix – 65% - Necromancer book club – really good book to re-read, enjoying the technical skill that Nix brings to the book quite a lot.
It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections in Horror - Joe Vallese (Editor) – SPN Seminar – 38%
The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson – 41%
What I’ll Read Next:
Lord of The Rings – in keeping with my vague sense that I should actually read the big books that everyone talks about!
Owned and need to read: Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology, California Bones, Raven Song by IA Ashcroft, 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
I’ve had a kind of a rough couple of weeks – my knee is getting better but it’s been confirmed to be a sprain and I am trying to take a careful approach so that I don’t re-injure it. We’ll see about further imaging to see if there’s anything else going on. There has been some other nonsense – all of which has been enough of a trickle that we could handle it piece by piece, but also annoying enough to mean it’s hard to manage without a bit of extra stress.
Since I’ve been laid low by physical nonsense, I have been leaning into the comfort re-watches. I finished the 1995 Pride and Prejudice, the 1995 Persuasion, and the 2004 North and South, all of which I have seen before and read the books and they really just take my whole stressed out vibe to a much calmer level.
