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Wednesday Reading Meme - Jan 8 2025
Jan. 8th, 2025 06:46 pmReading Journal Jan 8 2025
What I’ve Read
He Who Drowned the World – Shelley Parker-Chan – This is the sequel to She Who Became the Sun and it’s fucking fantastic. Really loves putting the characters in situations, really willing to stare deeply into the consequences of their actions, kind of utterly wonderful about the whole thing. Really an amazing book with a real focus on characters unfolding over time. These people feel a little bit monstrous and a little bit victims and all over inevitable.
Harrow County Vol 2 – Twice Told – Cullen Bunn – This graphic novel does interesting set up but the payoff has so far been a bit less punchy than I hope for. A bit of the superhero rule of returning to the status quo at the end of the story? If the library has more, I’ll keep reading but I’m not super pumped. The art remains great.
Flyaway – Kathleen Jennings – A bit fairy tale, a bit supernatural, very Australian. I feel a bit like when I started reading Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation and I was new to the genre and couldn’t tell what was innovation and what was convention. Disorienting but not in a bad way. I think I will keep this to re-read. The physical book is quite lovely.
Locke and Key – Vol 1 – Welcome to Lovecraft – Joe Hill – This book HIT. It absolutely did not pull its punches, and given that its a horror, it really works. The slow build from normal awful human tragedy to supernatural distortions of the normal world, until things kind of explode. I’m very very interested to see what will happen next.
What I’m Reading
City of Brass -Cute but the story just feels a little preachy.
The Return of the King – 55% - Good lord. The ring is melted but we still have so much book left!
It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror – 52%
Power Broker – Audiobook Part 3 – 1%
Static:
The Lottery and Other Stories – 44%
Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation – 31%
Ash: A Secret History – 23%
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 10%
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
What I’ve Read
He Who Drowned the World – Shelley Parker-Chan – This is the sequel to She Who Became the Sun and it’s fucking fantastic. Really loves putting the characters in situations, really willing to stare deeply into the consequences of their actions, kind of utterly wonderful about the whole thing. Really an amazing book with a real focus on characters unfolding over time. These people feel a little bit monstrous and a little bit victims and all over inevitable.
Harrow County Vol 2 – Twice Told – Cullen Bunn – This graphic novel does interesting set up but the payoff has so far been a bit less punchy than I hope for. A bit of the superhero rule of returning to the status quo at the end of the story? If the library has more, I’ll keep reading but I’m not super pumped. The art remains great.
Flyaway – Kathleen Jennings – A bit fairy tale, a bit supernatural, very Australian. I feel a bit like when I started reading Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation and I was new to the genre and couldn’t tell what was innovation and what was convention. Disorienting but not in a bad way. I think I will keep this to re-read. The physical book is quite lovely.
Locke and Key – Vol 1 – Welcome to Lovecraft – Joe Hill – This book HIT. It absolutely did not pull its punches, and given that its a horror, it really works. The slow build from normal awful human tragedy to supernatural distortions of the normal world, until things kind of explode. I’m very very interested to see what will happen next.
What I’m Reading
City of Brass -Cute but the story just feels a little preachy.
The Return of the King – 55% - Good lord. The ring is melted but we still have so much book left!
It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror – 52%
Power Broker – Audiobook Part 3 – 1%
Static:
The Lottery and Other Stories – 44%
Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation – 31%
Ash: A Secret History – 23%
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 10%
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
