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Wednesday Reading Meme June 19, 2024
What I’ve Read:
Running Close to the Wind – Alex Rowland – Read this in a single day. Hilarious and horny and deeply ethically committed book with a “silly little slut” of a main character who trying to deal with the fact that he holds the most valuable secret in this world and he definitely does not want to be in charge of handling the impact of that. Rowland is an author who will set something up like a lighthouse on a misty night and then I AM STILL SHOCKED by the reveal. It’s also just a competent and pleasant read and I deeply enjoyed myself
Everyday Superhero – Stoneage_Woman - (63K) https://archiveofourown.org/works/23638189 – A Spider-Man MCU movie from the POV of Peter’s sophomore Chemistry teacher, posting that he finds out about Peter’s secret identity. This is both a love letter to teaching and a deeply felt story about how gun violence impacts American schools and teaching generally. It is not pulling its punches even a little bit, so mind the warnings and tags. I had to put the fic down to go cry after a couple of sections – this is so precise in how it shows how the fictional trauma of being a superhero and real trauma of encountering violence in schools shapes the teachers and students of this fic.
What I’m Reading:
Children of Dune – audiobook - got like 12% in and have now abandoned it. It was too soon after Dune Messiah, and the characters just keep getting weirder.
The Spear Cuts Through Water – hugos and xing book club, 50% - switched to the audiobook OMG I LOVE THIS. This is my trash. This is my vibe. I am really enjoying the folk tale vibes, the dreamlike atmosphere, and the fact that the whole thing is a play within a dream within a memory of a story your grandmother once told. This bitch has LAYERS. Book club discussion was mixed - I think it's fair to say that some people do not enjoy it but not in a way of its badly done? just not for them.
Mo Dao Zu Shi - Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation – Mo Xiang Tong Xiu – Part 5 – 23% - Ok, I restarted this series and I forgot that the last part of thing is just the climactic scene in the temple and a bunch of cute extra stories. It’s very entertaining! I’m also having the similar experience of tonal whiplash – these genres are outside my prior reading and it’s really fun to visit them to see how thing turn out!
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York– Robert Caro – 31% - back to reading this a bit
What I’ll Read Next
Some Desperate Glory - Crossing
Space Between Worlds – Neocromancer’s Book Club
Fugitive Telemetry
Hugo Nominees:
Bea Wolf Saga, Vol. 11 Translation State Starter Villain The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi “Introduction to 2181 Overture, Second Edition” “Ivy, Angelica, Bay” “On the Fox Roads” “One Man’s Treasure” “The Year Without Sunshine” I AM AI Rose/House “Life Does Not Allow Us to Meet” The Mimicking of Known Successes Mammoths at the Gates “Seeds of Mercury” The Culture: The Drawings A City on Mars A Traveller in Time: The Critical Practice of Maureen Kincaid Speller, All These Worlds: Reviews & Essays “Better Living Through Algorithms” by Naomi Kritzer (Clarkesworld May 2023) “Answerless Journey” / 没有答案的航程, 韩松, “The Sound of Children Screaming” “How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub” “The Mausoleum’s Children”
Running Close to the Wind – Alex Rowland – Read this in a single day. Hilarious and horny and deeply ethically committed book with a “silly little slut” of a main character who trying to deal with the fact that he holds the most valuable secret in this world and he definitely does not want to be in charge of handling the impact of that. Rowland is an author who will set something up like a lighthouse on a misty night and then I AM STILL SHOCKED by the reveal. It’s also just a competent and pleasant read and I deeply enjoyed myself
Everyday Superhero – Stoneage_Woman - (63K) https://archiveofourown.org/works/23638189 – A Spider-Man MCU movie from the POV of Peter’s sophomore Chemistry teacher, posting that he finds out about Peter’s secret identity. This is both a love letter to teaching and a deeply felt story about how gun violence impacts American schools and teaching generally. It is not pulling its punches even a little bit, so mind the warnings and tags. I had to put the fic down to go cry after a couple of sections – this is so precise in how it shows how the fictional trauma of being a superhero and real trauma of encountering violence in schools shapes the teachers and students of this fic.
What I’m Reading:
Children of Dune – audiobook - got like 12% in and have now abandoned it. It was too soon after Dune Messiah, and the characters just keep getting weirder.
The Spear Cuts Through Water – hugos and xing book club, 50% - switched to the audiobook OMG I LOVE THIS. This is my trash. This is my vibe. I am really enjoying the folk tale vibes, the dreamlike atmosphere, and the fact that the whole thing is a play within a dream within a memory of a story your grandmother once told. This bitch has LAYERS. Book club discussion was mixed - I think it's fair to say that some people do not enjoy it but not in a way of its badly done? just not for them.
Mo Dao Zu Shi - Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation – Mo Xiang Tong Xiu – Part 5 – 23% - Ok, I restarted this series and I forgot that the last part of thing is just the climactic scene in the temple and a bunch of cute extra stories. It’s very entertaining! I’m also having the similar experience of tonal whiplash – these genres are outside my prior reading and it’s really fun to visit them to see how thing turn out!
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York– Robert Caro – 31% - back to reading this a bit
What I’ll Read Next
Some Desperate Glory - Crossing
Space Between Worlds – Neocromancer’s Book Club
Fugitive Telemetry
Hugo Nominees:
Bea Wolf Saga, Vol. 11 Translation State Starter Villain The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi “Introduction to 2181 Overture, Second Edition” “Ivy, Angelica, Bay” “On the Fox Roads” “One Man’s Treasure” “The Year Without Sunshine” I AM AI Rose/House “Life Does Not Allow Us to Meet” The Mimicking of Known Successes Mammoths at the Gates “Seeds of Mercury” The Culture: The Drawings A City on Mars A Traveller in Time: The Critical Practice of Maureen Kincaid Speller, All These Worlds: Reviews & Essays “Better Living Through Algorithms” by Naomi Kritzer (Clarkesworld May 2023) “Answerless Journey” / 没有答案的航程, 韩松, “The Sound of Children Screaming” “How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub” “The Mausoleum’s Children”