tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-08-10:436643Kitewithfishkitewithfishkitewithfish2022-05-25T18:08:54Ztag:dreamwidth.org,2009-08-10:436643:441723Wednesday Reading Meme2022-05-25T18:08:54Z2022-05-25T18:08:54Zpublic0<strong>What I've Read</strong><br /><strong>The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry </strong>by C.M. Waggoner (Book Club ) This is a solidly plotted story in a well-built world. I felt like there was a potential for either a little more in the third act for the criminal plot, but one of the things I appreciated about this book was that the protagonist react to horrible violence with actual trauma - so I'm not sad it ended when it did. A book that is very interested in class and in violence done by economics, and also how necromancy can be used to make drugs. Trans character! Cultural normative queer relationships! <br /><br /><strong>Elder Race</strong> by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Hugos 2022 Nominee for Best Novella) - I really like the concept of this book! One character thinks their setting is a high fantasy and they are seeking help from a wizard. One character thinks he's an anthropologist abandoned on a distant human colony world that fell back into feudalism. Delightfully, neither is completely right in their interpretations of the world that they are seeing! Very much a book that could be put into conversation with The Thing (1982) in terms of questions about how to face a future where your death is assured. Not bleak, tho. <br /><br /><strong>What I'm Reading</strong><br /><strong>Monstress,</strong> Vol. 6: The Vow by Marjorie M. Liu with Sana Takeda (Illustrator) (Hugos 2022 Nominee for Best Graphic Story or Comic) - I am so lost in the book. I almost cut out this category because so many of these are collections from an ongoing story, and I definitely feel like I walked halfway into Dracula and needed to ask who Van Helsing is. I'm going to dig into a wiki and see if I can figure this out any better. But I kind of think that the main character might have started a war. <br /><br /><strong>Monsters in the Closet </strong>by Harry Benshoff - An ongoing and excellent nonfiction entry into the Great Queer Supernatural Rewatch Project. I'm on Chapter 2 this week, "Shock Treatment: Curing the monster queer during World War II" and it's making me think I need to watch Dracula's Daughter.<br /><br /><strong>What I'll Read Next</strong> <br />A Master of Djinn, Far Sector, Something in the Blood, Once and Future: Parliament of Magpies, Die: Bleed, Bedlam Stacks, Space Opera, For the Wolf, Golden Age .... look, I just got a lot of books out from the library.<br /><strong>Books I Bought</strong> <br />- Seeing Like an Activist, How to Survive A Plague, Make Sew and Mend <br /><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=kitewithfish&ditemid=441723" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-08-10:436643:440996Wednesday Reading Meme2022-04-27T20:05:51Z2022-04-28T20:57:31Zpublic0<strong>What I've Read</strong><br />I have given up on <strong>Midnight Sun</strong>! Because, good god. Why bother.<br /><br />I also gave up on the audiobook of <strong>True Believer</strong>, the autobiography of Stan Lee. It's just organized with a very odd way of bouncing back and forth in time, and not particular compassion for the living people involved. <br /><br />I have finished nothing else, somehow. I think I was on a visual media kick this week - I slipped back into the second season of the <strong>Punisher </strong>because someone was talking about it on Tumblr, I watched like 10 episodes of T<strong>he Story of Yanxi Palace.</strong> I saw <strong>The Batman!</strong><br /><br /><br /><strong>What I'm Reading</strong><br /><br />Still on <strong>The Galaxy and the Ground Within</strong> - it's getting to the good parts!<br />Edit from Thursday: Having just finished this book, I can speak with authority - the endings are the good parts. The epilogues for each other characters were each a full culmination of the experiences that they'd had while stuck on the little planet. They were excellently composed vignettes for each character, built entirely on the relationships and conversations they'd had with the other former strangers trapped with them. I am so glad I persevered to the end of this book!<br /><br />Have not touched <strong>Four Profound Weaves </strong>because I want to read it for next week. <br /><strong><br />What I'll Read Next</strong> <br /><br /><strong>Monsters in the Closet </strong>- next up in the Great Queer Supernatural Re-watch Reading Club.<br /><br />How did I re-read the Thief series and forget about the final book in the series? Which I have never read before! I'm a fool. I have it got it from the library as an audiobook and I'm delighted to start it soon. <br /><br />I'm going to read Being Seen, the Past is Red, Never Say You Can't Survive.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=kitewithfish&ditemid=440996" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments