­Reading Journal Jan 15 2025

What I’ve Read
Nothing to completion but lots of progress.

What I’m Reading 
City of Brass – Necromancy Book Club – 57% - I need to finish this for the book club this weekend. I think this is maybe thin gruel in terms of plot but the author is good on the sentence level and the world building is based on a mythology I’m quite unfamiliar with, so I’m having a good time overall. I really wish I had a better sense of story, overall

Marked in Trust by Marchling – re-read of a long ass fic that I love – Fast and Furious soulmates AU where Dom and Brian meet when Brian is a teen rather than a cop.

Strange Practice –Vivian Shaw – Xing Book Club -This is probably a fine book but the Englishness of the audiobook narrator, but I’m not having a great time. I have resolved to be more generous - plenty of good books are written by English people, why does the narrator just have to have the most irritating RP accent? 

The Return of the King – 77% – Audiobook continues to be wonderful. I realized only today that this version seems to include the appendices, so I perhaps am much closer to the end of the story than I realized – the Shire has been Scoured and Rosie Cotton got some personality, so the narrator has started giving us a bit of future Shire info and I’m wondering when the ending will hit me. (Bill the Pony!)

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
Strange Practice
The Centre -Sidiqi