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kitewithfishReading Journal Dec 28 2024
Well, it’s not Wednesday but here we are anyways
I think my next post will be a Reading Year in Review style retrospective, so I figured I would take the chance to get this week's reading logged properly.
What I’ve Read
The Archive Undying - Emma Mieko Candon – Xing Book Club – A deeply weird book, but I enjoyed reading it at a sentence level and a character level, so the fact that the story made little sense was largely fine. It did improve on the second half of the book, but I also gave up on the audiobook and went to read it with my eyes because I was not tracking the change in narrator well enough on the audiobook. (Sometimes I wonder if a particular book is made for re-reading, so that you’re supposed to have more fun the second time thru, and I suspect I would like this book more on a second read.) The worldbuilding is interesting in a slightly chaotic way and I felt fairly shocked that so much had happened in the world backstory and it was all in just three years. Slight body horror of the ‘sharing a brain and merging personalities’ style.
Swordcrossed by Freya Marske - I bought this when it came out bc I love the author - a really fun read. Lots of background information about making fabric supplied a really interesting world, I enjoyed a great deal of the characterization and the whole process of having thoughts about how to find happiness when you’re used to putting yours on hold for duty. Solid book choice and Marske’s work is incredibly readable.
What I’m Reading
The Return of the King – 51% - 8 hours to go and not too much driving in sight, but we have gotten to the point where the Frodo and Sam are disguised as orcs and working on getting to Mt Doom.
It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror – 52%
Power Broker – Audiobook Part 3 – 1%
He Who Drowned the World – 59%
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 10%
Static:
The Lottery and Other Stories – 44%
Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation – 31%
Ash: A Secret History – 23%
Count of Monte Cristo 48%
What I’ll Read Next
Worn: A People’s History of Clothing by Sofi Thanhauser
Petals on the Wind
Strange Practice
The Centre -Sidiqi
City of Brass
Well, it’s not Wednesday but here we are anyways
I think my next post will be a Reading Year in Review style retrospective, so I figured I would take the chance to get this week's reading logged properly.
What I’ve Read
The Archive Undying - Emma Mieko Candon – Xing Book Club – A deeply weird book, but I enjoyed reading it at a sentence level and a character level, so the fact that the story made little sense was largely fine. It did improve on the second half of the book, but I also gave up on the audiobook and went to read it with my eyes because I was not tracking the change in narrator well enough on the audiobook. (Sometimes I wonder if a particular book is made for re-reading, so that you’re supposed to have more fun the second time thru, and I suspect I would like this book more on a second read.) The worldbuilding is interesting in a slightly chaotic way and I felt fairly shocked that so much had happened in the world backstory and it was all in just three years. Slight body horror of the ‘sharing a brain and merging personalities’ style.
Swordcrossed by Freya Marske - I bought this when it came out bc I love the author - a really fun read. Lots of background information about making fabric supplied a really interesting world, I enjoyed a great deal of the characterization and the whole process of having thoughts about how to find happiness when you’re used to putting yours on hold for duty. Solid book choice and Marske’s work is incredibly readable.
What I’m Reading
The Return of the King – 51% - 8 hours to go and not too much driving in sight, but we have gotten to the point where the Frodo and Sam are disguised as orcs and working on getting to Mt Doom.
It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror – 52%
Power Broker – Audiobook Part 3 – 1%
He Who Drowned the World – 59%
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 10%
Static:
The Lottery and Other Stories – 44%
Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation – 31%
Ash: A Secret History – 23%
Count of Monte Cristo 48%
What I’ll Read Next
Worn: A People’s History of Clothing by Sofi Thanhauser
Petals on the Wind
Strange Practice
The Centre -Sidiqi
City of Brass
