Wednesday Reading Meme May 31 2023
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kitewithfishWhat I’ve Read
Watchmaker’s Daughter – CJ Archer – Read for RoboBook Club – This is the fantasy detective story with small amounts of magic, set in “TV Show Victorian England”. I should probably be kinder; the book is 1 in a 13 part series and I suspect that the reasons that I didn’t enjoy it (slow development of key features, incomplete worldbuilding that zooms forward at the 90% mark, glacially paced romance) are part of pacing the book as part of that larger series. However, they are annoying enough that I am not going to both reading the series unless someone makes a really strong pitch. Devastatingly hetero.
The Risen King – Taylor Titmouse – Well written and fun, just not quite working for me bc of the mind control element. Solid little porny story, but just not quite for me.
What I’m Reading
The Devil in Us All – Sineala – 45% - Excellent Marvel Avengers fic – Tony and Steve in the early 1980s. Due to a financial hiccup, Steve starts drawing illustrations for a magazine of particular interests. I adore this and the mutual pining is amazing.
The King in Yellow 25% -static – I have read the first two stories, which were both quite good in a sort of old fashioned style. I wish I had a historical annotation edition – half of this is fascinating and half just obscure.
The Count of Monte Cristo – 1% - Just started this as an audiobook, which claims to be 47 hours long. Amazing.
Babel – Xing Book Club – 16% Moderately devastating.
Carry On- Tamryn Eradani -static -37%
Freefall – Umei_No_Mai - static
Other Media – Wolf 359 (Podcast) – I started listening to this on Saturday as part of my move to listen to more podcasts. I found the first season to be deliberately tonally light while handling a fairly bleak subject, but I really enjoyed it, and I have gotten to Season 2 where they are more straightforward about the desperate situation.
Since listening to Malevolent, I gather up a spreadsheet of potential other podcasts to try out, mostly pulling from Tumblr tags then, when I got another friend onto the bandwagon, she gave me quite a few recommendations as well! She and I had both started the Magnus Archives in the last couple of years and then gradually lost interest in, so I think we have similar tastes. I also was surprised to find a second friend who recently has begun to enjoy horror podcasts, and I decided it was worth writing up my list into a spreadsheet to get the recs into circulation among the three of us - I think she will be trying out Malevolent soon!
What I’ll Read Next
Dowry of Blood
Owned and need to read: California Bones, Raven Song by IA Ashcroft, Kraken's Sacrifice by Katee Robert, Even Though I Know the End by CL Polk, At The Feet of the Sun by Victoria Goddard, Tamryn Eradani's Enchanting Encounters Books 2 and 3, Like Real People Do by EL Massey, Tom Stoppard, Invention of love, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty, "You Just Need to Lose Weight" and Other Myths about Fatness by Aubrey Gordon, Alisha Rai Partners in Crime, the Right Swipe, the Witch King by Martha Wells
Watchmaker’s Daughter – CJ Archer – Read for RoboBook Club – This is the fantasy detective story with small amounts of magic, set in “TV Show Victorian England”. I should probably be kinder; the book is 1 in a 13 part series and I suspect that the reasons that I didn’t enjoy it (slow development of key features, incomplete worldbuilding that zooms forward at the 90% mark, glacially paced romance) are part of pacing the book as part of that larger series. However, they are annoying enough that I am not going to both reading the series unless someone makes a really strong pitch. Devastatingly hetero.
The Risen King – Taylor Titmouse – Well written and fun, just not quite working for me bc of the mind control element. Solid little porny story, but just not quite for me.
What I’m Reading
The Devil in Us All – Sineala – 45% - Excellent Marvel Avengers fic – Tony and Steve in the early 1980s. Due to a financial hiccup, Steve starts drawing illustrations for a magazine of particular interests. I adore this and the mutual pining is amazing.
The King in Yellow 25% -static – I have read the first two stories, which were both quite good in a sort of old fashioned style. I wish I had a historical annotation edition – half of this is fascinating and half just obscure.
The Count of Monte Cristo – 1% - Just started this as an audiobook, which claims to be 47 hours long. Amazing.
Babel – Xing Book Club – 16% Moderately devastating.
Carry On- Tamryn Eradani -static -37%
Freefall – Umei_No_Mai - static
Other Media – Wolf 359 (Podcast) – I started listening to this on Saturday as part of my move to listen to more podcasts. I found the first season to be deliberately tonally light while handling a fairly bleak subject, but I really enjoyed it, and I have gotten to Season 2 where they are more straightforward about the desperate situation.
Since listening to Malevolent, I gather up a spreadsheet of potential other podcasts to try out, mostly pulling from Tumblr tags then, when I got another friend onto the bandwagon, she gave me quite a few recommendations as well! She and I had both started the Magnus Archives in the last couple of years and then gradually lost interest in, so I think we have similar tastes. I also was surprised to find a second friend who recently has begun to enjoy horror podcasts, and I decided it was worth writing up my list into a spreadsheet to get the recs into circulation among the three of us - I think she will be trying out Malevolent soon!
What I’ll Read Next
Dowry of Blood
Owned and need to read: California Bones, Raven Song by IA Ashcroft, Kraken's Sacrifice by Katee Robert, Even Though I Know the End by CL Polk, At The Feet of the Sun by Victoria Goddard, Tamryn Eradani's Enchanting Encounters Books 2 and 3, Like Real People Do by EL Massey, Tom Stoppard, Invention of love, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty, "You Just Need to Lose Weight" and Other Myths about Fatness by Aubrey Gordon, Alisha Rai Partners in Crime, the Right Swipe, the Witch King by Martha Wells
