I'm traveling this week so I'm going to be out of ambit tomorrow (aka actual Wednesday) so I figured I would write out this week's reading in advance and add to it if I finish anything on the plane.

Also, useful little note for Storygraph users- they now have a way to log things as Not A Book! This was specifically added so that people could use Storygraph to track their fanfic without having to clog the Storygraph databases with non-book items. Since it does not add the fanfic to the larger catalog of books, it also doesn't put fic authors in the awkward position of having to ask people not to link their fanfic to a non-fanfic audience.
Full details here: https://roadmap.thestorygraph.com/features/posts/-not-a-book-status


What I've Read
Homeworld Elegy by Ashcroft_Writes - part 2 of Gunslinger's Paean ( sprawling and wonderful AU from Epsiode 4:07 of The Clone Wars) - Technically an unfinished series but existing works each are complete. I found this to be just... solidly one of the best books I've read. Any genre, but in particular for sci fi. And it's about CAD BANE from the fucking Clone Wars cartoon. After the events of the first fic, which lead to Cad maybe sort of kind of sidling sideways towards considering maybe his current way of life is not working for him exactly as it is, he has to return to the space station he grew up on. This fic takes its original characters and just soaks them with meaning and builds metaphor and culture into everything - it feels incredibly sci fi and incredibly real. Highly recommend both works in the series.

Edit after the fact: I have just discovered by clicking around the internet that Ashcroft also writes under the pen name I.A. Ashcroft and have purchased some books! 

Honorable mention for a shorter fic - On the Side by spicedrobot - Maul/Cad Bane, sex work, mind sex - just a great take on an interesting concept!

What I'm Reading
Thrawn: Treason - Timothy Zahn - book three - I skipped book two because it did not have Eli Vanto, and I'm a simple creature.

Edit after the fact: I started Hunting Toward Heartstill by Blackkat on the plane home and I'm definitely in a better place to read it this time (The Clones Wars Cartoon, Mace Windu/Cody marriage of convenience, very long). I think I originally started it before I had really gotten into The Clone Wars Cartoon fandom, and there are things that I remember reading before and being bewildered by - but now I am catching a lot more of the references. I really wish I knew what I had first read by Blackkat - someday maybe I'll go back thru my reading history on AO3 and figure it out. But this is one of her longest and works and I truly think it's shaping up to be one of the best - she really is one of my favorite authors, in or out of fandom, and when she decides to write a love story, by god, she writes a love story. 


What I'll Read Next

Darth Maul: Lockdown
Whale Rider
Thrawn -Heir to the Empire
Maybe Spinning Silver
Tiger's Daughter

Things I own:
Might re-read City of Lies in order to get back on the page for the sequel book.
Hunting Towards Heartstill -blackkat
Think of England - KJ charles
True Colors - Karen traviss