Wednesday Reading Meme 2/19/2025
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kitewithfishReading Journal Feb 19 2025
Personal updates: Life continues steadily on course?
I picked up the yarn for the baby blanket I have been planning for an upcoming birth so I’ve been reading less and watching more TV. I'm adding that at the end.
What I’ve Read
Nothing to completion.
What I’m Reading
System Collapse – my book club picked this out so I’m re-reading it and God, Murderbot Diaries are good. The longer the books go, the more in depth they get about Murderbot’s trauma and healing and that really hits a spot just now.
In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan - I first read this before it came out, when Brennan was just doing a LJ fic for fun. Some of the bones of that still show – the pacing feels a bit like longer posts strung together with a bit of “time passed in between adventures” but I don’t mind that at all.
Kingdom of Copper – about 35% - remains good, haven’t touch it in a week
Wool (The Omnibus Edition) by Hugh Howey – 9% - Weird and interesting but I haven’t hit any major places where the show diverged except tonally.
It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror – 52%
Power Broker – Audiobook Part 3 – 1%0
What I’ll Read Next
The Route of Ice and Salt (gay and dracula and boats)
Worn: A People’s History of Clothing by Sofi Thanhauser
Empire of Gold
Madness of Angels Kate Griffin
City of Lies
The Memory Librarian
What I’ve Watched
I keep wondering about doing a post about The Penguin, in which Colin Farrell dons a fat suit and fake limp to portray a man who is murderous from a very young age, because I do find fat suits dehumanizing and gross! I would have forgiven this series a lot of it sins of cliches and inconsistent plotting, if they had just given this role to an actual fat actor or a disabled one. But, no, they invented a man whose main role in comics is "be fat and wear a tux and do crime" and added disability and child murder. Woo. Funsies.
In a single evening, I binged most Creature Commandos, where each character felt interesting and cared about and some of them got excellent endings and some of them got to try being better people. I have one left so they might fuck up the ending but…. I think it will be okay.
Personal updates: Life continues steadily on course?
I picked up the yarn for the baby blanket I have been planning for an upcoming birth so I’ve been reading less and watching more TV. I'm adding that at the end.
What I’ve Read
Nothing to completion.
What I’m Reading
System Collapse – my book club picked this out so I’m re-reading it and God, Murderbot Diaries are good. The longer the books go, the more in depth they get about Murderbot’s trauma and healing and that really hits a spot just now.
In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan - I first read this before it came out, when Brennan was just doing a LJ fic for fun. Some of the bones of that still show – the pacing feels a bit like longer posts strung together with a bit of “time passed in between adventures” but I don’t mind that at all.
Kingdom of Copper – about 35% - remains good, haven’t touch it in a week
Wool (The Omnibus Edition) by Hugh Howey – 9% - Weird and interesting but I haven’t hit any major places where the show diverged except tonally.
It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror – 52%
Power Broker – Audiobook Part 3 – 1%0
What I’ll Read Next
The Route of Ice and Salt (gay and dracula and boats)
Worn: A People’s History of Clothing by Sofi Thanhauser
Empire of Gold
Madness of Angels Kate Griffin
City of Lies
The Memory Librarian
What I’ve Watched
I keep wondering about doing a post about The Penguin, in which Colin Farrell dons a fat suit and fake limp to portray a man who is murderous from a very young age, because I do find fat suits dehumanizing and gross! I would have forgiven this series a lot of it sins of cliches and inconsistent plotting, if they had just given this role to an actual fat actor or a disabled one. But, no, they invented a man whose main role in comics is "be fat and wear a tux and do crime" and added disability and child murder. Woo. Funsies.
In a single evening, I binged most Creature Commandos, where each character felt interesting and cared about and some of them got excellent endings and some of them got to try being better people. I have one left so they might fuck up the ending but…. I think it will be okay.
