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kitewithfishReading Journal
What I’ve Read
Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix – This is my first book by Grady Hendrix, and I think it was good! Not wild or stellar or really got its hooks into me, but solid and well structured. (I was doing the thing where I was mentally re-writing individual lines while I read to be punchier, so this might be a personal taste thing – I felt like the sentence level writing was a bit dull while the story structure and editing were very solid.)This book really shines in the arena of design – physical copies of the book are structured to look like an Orsk catalogue, the in-universe Ikea knock-off furniture store that is the setting for the horrific events that happen to the main characters. You will get more out of this book if you have been to an Ikea, but I don’t think it’s required homework.
Daniel Molloy’s Incredible Showstopping World-Famous Model Train Extravaganza for Children and Easily-Awed Vampires (Please Knock) by Ariaste https://archiveofourown.org/works/60371995 – This is a book canon Interview with the Vampire novel length work in which Daniel Molloy, who has been mad for several decades, gets vampire antidepressants and goes about seducing his maker. It is delicious and historical and makes me completely unsure if I should re-read the books or never re-read the books. Very Daniel and Armand focused, very sexy.
What I’m Reading
Honorable mention for a work in progress that came out of hibernation after … (pause for math)…. 9 years, 9 months, 25 days – Cut All the Flowers by Smugrobotics
( https://archiveofourown.org/works/646619/navigate )– a NolanVerse Batman movies Bane/John Blake soulmate AU fic that takes place after the events of The Dark Night Rises. This fic is delicious and thorny and really scratches a particular mental itch for me (yeah, actually, it would be a problem to be cosmically bound to a guy who tried to kill your whole city) , and Smugrobotics came back from hiatus with a BANGER of a chapter… and then followed it up with fireworks1 It’s a delight, I have gone and re-read the whole work as it stands, I just needed to share the good news. It’s a WIP so it’s in the ‘what I’m reading’ category but it’s great stuff if you liked that particular pairing. I'm having a bit of a Bane renaissance as a result.
The Archive Undying -20%
The Return of the King – 38% -
It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror – 46%
Power Broker – Audiobook Part 3 – 1%
He Who Drowned the World – 59%
Static:
The Lottery and Other Stories – 44%
Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation – 31%
Ash: A Secret History – 23%
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 5%
Count of Monte Cristo 48%
What I’ll Read Next
Worn: A People’s History of Clothing by Sofi Thanhauser
Petals on the Wind
Swordcrossed
Strange Practice
The Centre -Sidiqi
City of Brass
What I’ve Read
Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix – This is my first book by Grady Hendrix, and I think it was good! Not wild or stellar or really got its hooks into me, but solid and well structured. (I was doing the thing where I was mentally re-writing individual lines while I read to be punchier, so this might be a personal taste thing – I felt like the sentence level writing was a bit dull while the story structure and editing were very solid.)This book really shines in the arena of design – physical copies of the book are structured to look like an Orsk catalogue, the in-universe Ikea knock-off furniture store that is the setting for the horrific events that happen to the main characters. You will get more out of this book if you have been to an Ikea, but I don’t think it’s required homework.
Daniel Molloy’s Incredible Showstopping World-Famous Model Train Extravaganza for Children and Easily-Awed Vampires (Please Knock) by Ariaste https://archiveofourown.org/works/60371995 – This is a book canon Interview with the Vampire novel length work in which Daniel Molloy, who has been mad for several decades, gets vampire antidepressants and goes about seducing his maker. It is delicious and historical and makes me completely unsure if I should re-read the books or never re-read the books. Very Daniel and Armand focused, very sexy.
What I’m Reading
Honorable mention for a work in progress that came out of hibernation after … (pause for math)…. 9 years, 9 months, 25 days – Cut All the Flowers by Smugrobotics
( https://archiveofourown.org/works/646619/navigate )– a NolanVerse Batman movies Bane/John Blake soulmate AU fic that takes place after the events of The Dark Night Rises. This fic is delicious and thorny and really scratches a particular mental itch for me (yeah, actually, it would be a problem to be cosmically bound to a guy who tried to kill your whole city) , and Smugrobotics came back from hiatus with a BANGER of a chapter… and then followed it up with fireworks1 It’s a delight, I have gone and re-read the whole work as it stands, I just needed to share the good news. It’s a WIP so it’s in the ‘what I’m reading’ category but it’s great stuff if you liked that particular pairing. I'm having a bit of a Bane renaissance as a result.
The Archive Undying -20%
The Return of the King – 38% -
It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror – 46%
Power Broker – Audiobook Part 3 – 1%
He Who Drowned the World – 59%
Static:
The Lottery and Other Stories – 44%
Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation – 31%
Ash: A Secret History – 23%
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 5%
Count of Monte Cristo 48%
What I’ll Read Next
Worn: A People’s History of Clothing by Sofi Thanhauser
Petals on the Wind
Swordcrossed
Strange Practice
The Centre -Sidiqi
City of Brass
