Wednesday Reading Meme December 13 2023
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kitewithfishWhat I’ve Read:
City of Blades – Robert Jackson Bennett - Xing Book Club - really enjoyed this sequel. Not a simple read just now – it’s very focused on war and the stories people tell themselves about nobility and honor and meaning and how it’s all just drivel to disguise the reality of it just being killing. It’s also a solid mystery novel in an interesting world, with great characters and good writing. I liked the first, I will continue on to the third.
Spare by Prince Harry Markle (audiobook) – This is very much an autobiography of a wife guy, which is about the only thing that would persuade me to think generously about the British royal family. This is a book clearly written by the first person in the family to go to therapy. So, good for him. Unmentioned in past reviews of the book that I saw… Harry just spends a lot of time talking about serving in the military and being in Afghanistan and it’s pretty gross and politically shallow bc he was using the military to run from his problems.
Dark Rise – CS Pacat – This is a re-read of something I read in February, in preparation for the second book in the trilogy, Dark Heir. I read it via audiobook then, it was a good read now. It’s not quite kinky in a sexual way, but there are definitely kinky elements that you could read into.
What I’m Reading:
Haunting of Hill House – Shirley Jackson – Audiobook 30%– this is delicious and feels like each scene could have been pulled from the collection of short stories that I have been enjoying. I am rapidly coming to the conclusion the Shirley Jackson’s writing is worth all the hype, and also that it is nearly impossible to describe why I like it so much.
Dark Heir – CS Pacat – Just started, rolled right into it from the previous book. Glad I did a re-read – this one starts directly from the last book’s end point.
It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections in Horror - Joe Vallese (Editor) – SPN Seminar –
-Short essays where queer authors talk about horror cinema’s impact on them, with a focus on particular movies.
- I haven't read this week's essay yet but I get to watch Godzilla!
The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson – no movement. I’m just carrying it around in my backpack for bored moments.
What I’ll Read Next:
Ninefox Gambit – Xing Book Club
When Women Were Dragons - Xing Book Club
Owned and need to read: Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology, California Bones, Raven Song by IA Ashcroft, At The Feet of the Sun by Victoria Goddard, Tamryn Eradani's Enchanting Encounters Books 2 and 3, Tom Stoppard, Invention of love, "You Just Need to Lose Weight" and Other Myths about Fatness by Aubrey Gordon, Alisha Rai Partners in Crime, the Right Swipe
City of Blades – Robert Jackson Bennett - Xing Book Club - really enjoyed this sequel. Not a simple read just now – it’s very focused on war and the stories people tell themselves about nobility and honor and meaning and how it’s all just drivel to disguise the reality of it just being killing. It’s also a solid mystery novel in an interesting world, with great characters and good writing. I liked the first, I will continue on to the third.
Spare by Prince Harry Markle (audiobook) – This is very much an autobiography of a wife guy, which is about the only thing that would persuade me to think generously about the British royal family. This is a book clearly written by the first person in the family to go to therapy. So, good for him. Unmentioned in past reviews of the book that I saw… Harry just spends a lot of time talking about serving in the military and being in Afghanistan and it’s pretty gross and politically shallow bc he was using the military to run from his problems.
Dark Rise – CS Pacat – This is a re-read of something I read in February, in preparation for the second book in the trilogy, Dark Heir. I read it via audiobook then, it was a good read now. It’s not quite kinky in a sexual way, but there are definitely kinky elements that you could read into.
What I’m Reading:
Haunting of Hill House – Shirley Jackson – Audiobook 30%– this is delicious and feels like each scene could have been pulled from the collection of short stories that I have been enjoying. I am rapidly coming to the conclusion the Shirley Jackson’s writing is worth all the hype, and also that it is nearly impossible to describe why I like it so much.
Dark Heir – CS Pacat – Just started, rolled right into it from the previous book. Glad I did a re-read – this one starts directly from the last book’s end point.
It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections in Horror - Joe Vallese (Editor) – SPN Seminar –
-Short essays where queer authors talk about horror cinema’s impact on them, with a focus on particular movies.
- I haven't read this week's essay yet but I get to watch Godzilla!
The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson – no movement. I’m just carrying it around in my backpack for bored moments.
What I’ll Read Next:
Ninefox Gambit – Xing Book Club
When Women Were Dragons - Xing Book Club
Owned and need to read: Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology, California Bones, Raven Song by IA Ashcroft, At The Feet of the Sun by Victoria Goddard, Tamryn Eradani's Enchanting Encounters Books 2 and 3, Tom Stoppard, Invention of love, "You Just Need to Lose Weight" and Other Myths about Fatness by Aubrey Gordon, Alisha Rai Partners in Crime, the Right Swipe
