tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-08-10:436643Kitewithfishkitewithfishkitewithfish2022-11-03T00:42:21Ztag:dreamwidth.org,2009-08-10:436643:446987Wednesday Reading Meme2022-11-03T00:40:53Z2022-11-03T00:42:21Zpublic2<strong>What I've Read</strong><br /><br /><a href="https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/7cb7edcd-197c-448e-915e-93bcb01c25d4">Their Bounty by K A Merikan </a>- M/M/M/M reverse harem romance. A little too goofy to be really dark to me, a densely packed set of fantasies around a young man rescued from melodramatic human trafficking by a set of anti-heroic gay mercenaries. A much more enjoyable execution of concept than last week's hetero reverse harem romance. If you read Hannibal fic, then this is probably fluffy for you, but uh, the warnings are not for nothing. <br /><br /><a href="https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/3eb4caaf-5c36-4e95-81e4-ffaa1e177df2">Thrawn: Treason by Timothy Zhan</a> A Star Wars canonical novel that re-writes Thrawn to work with Disneyfied Star Wars era - not quite for me, but I am glad I finished it. I find that I mostly liked the first book of this series because Thrawn the viewpoint on Thrawn was tight enough that his tactical brilliance seemed like a something we could witness in real time thru the eyes of Eli Vanto. This Thrawn is less approachable and I missed watching him and Eli bounce off each other. If I wasn't hoping for more Eli/Thrawn, I might have liked this book more. It did suffer slightly from franchise-itis, that the ending had to set up elements of the Star Wars Rebels cartoon (which I have not started to watch, because no clones). I find a greater affinity for the pre-Disney Star Wars stuff, for the most part, but not without exceptions<br /><a href="https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/938356a4-0c16-405f-af59-756ca3a4509c"><br />A Taste of Gold and Iron</a> by Alexandra Rowland (book club re-read) The book club adored this book (minus our one Token Straight Man who is also our Token Hard Sci-Fi Defender, who had never read a romance novel and could not accept the genre conventions) and I found the re-read allowed me to slow down and just bask in the writing in the places where it really deserved to be basked in. <br /> <br /><strong>What I'm Reading </strong><br /><br />Supernatural Reading is back! We're doing <a href="https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/d722fdfe-0cee-4af6-9ea1-f4d58812c2b2">Westerns: Making the Man in Fiction and Film</a> by Lee Clark Mitchell<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/8754d0ad-3494-47bb-acca-a171d4f5e8e1">2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson </a>- Book club pick! I am literally one page in, and I have to get halfway thru by twos week hence. Doable!<br /><br />I'm stalled on <strong>Hunting Towards Heartstill </strong>by Blackkat - I'm gonna let myself skip forward a little bit, I think....<br /><br />I haven't opened <strong>Stay with Me, Go Places </strong>by Cacodaemonia at all, too busy, which is foolish, because I am in love with her Waxer and Boil. <br /><br /><strong><br />What I'll Read Next: </strong>I need to pick something from this list and just throw myself at it. <br /><br />I need to pick of Darth Maul: Son of Dathomir from the library when I get a chance. <br /><br /><div>Library books in the house</div><div>Maul: Lockdown - Joe Schreiber </div><div>The Whale Rider -Witi Ihimaera </div><div>Tiger's Daughter - K Arsenault Rivera </div><div>Riot Baby - Rochi Onyeuchi</div><div>The Silence of the Wilting Skin - Tlotlo Tsamaase </div><div>An Unkindness of Ghosts - Rivers Solomon</div><div> <br />But I will probably instead read one of the new novels I have purchased! NK Jemisin's The World We Make, Frey Marske's A Restless Truth, and Ocean's Echo by Everina Maxwell! November 1 is a good day!</div><br type="_moz" /><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=kitewithfish&ditemid=446987" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-08-10:436643:397442Round up - Lazy Weekend2018-12-17T03:33:53Z2018-12-17T03:33:53Zpublic0<strong>Listening</strong>: I spent a lot of this weekend in back episodes of <a href="https://betheserpent.podbean.com">Be the Serpent </a>, a podcast of extreme literary merit, which talks about writing and tropes and fanfic and is generally a delightful group of cackling writers openly discussing how character and sex can be written about in ways that intertwine and make both better. <br /><br />Their recommendations sent me down a rabbit hole - I know that I got to their podcast via <a href="https://betheserpent.podbean.com">Alex Rowland'</a>s tumblr, which means we probably overlapped in fannish circles, and she's the author of the book I am currently reading, <u>Conspiracy of Truths. </u>But I don't know how I started listening to the podcast and then didn't realize for several episodes that she's the American of the trio. Just, one of those fannish journeys that you take slowly down the road and then look up and are like, oh, here's where I am now. <br /><br /><strong>Reading</strong>: <a href="https://archiveofourown.org/works/13736073">Peacemaker by astolat</a> which is *not* a re-read for me, actually. I dipped my toes in the Transformers fic realm a bit a while back and now I'm post-Venom and can no longer deny being a monsterfucker, so I'm going back thru her stuff and damn this is sweet and porny and adorable. <br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=kitewithfish&ditemid=397442" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments