Wednesday Reading Meme for April 23, 2025
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kitewithfishWhat I’ve Read
His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik – a re-read! This is a favorite series, I have re-read this book like four times in the last decade. I was struck by a particular element of this novel’s pacing – just about the time in training when a book about combat training would have let the main characters try out the new and improved flight formations that they came up with on their own and would have wowed their peers and instructors, the war heats up and the stakes become much more clear.
What I’m Reading
Memory Library – Janelle Monae – Short stories for my book club, interesting world building around art and music and creativity and memory, but the sentence by sentence writing lacks a sense of cadence. Nothing shocks; nothing stops you in your tracks. This seems like it could have used another editorial pass, but it might just be a matter of taste.
Master and Commander – Patrick O’Brian – My audiobook choice for falling asleep to, which is not an insult, just a reflection of how soothing this narrator is. Absolutely not paying enough attention to this.
My Favorite Thing is Monsters -Emil Ferris - A comic book I am reading so that I can read the sequel piece for the hugos. It’s literally difficult to read: the conceit is that it’s a child’s notebook, so all the pages have the blue lines of school paper. The art is fascinating and I am about 30 pages in.
The Antarctica Conspiracy Derin Edala – slightly on hold.
What I’ll Read Next
Hugo Nominees are out!
Track Changes
The Deep Dark
My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Book 2
The Tainted Cup
Alien Clay
Service Model
The Ministry of Time
Someone You Can Build a Nest In
Star Trek: Lower Decks: Warp Your Own Way
Monstress, Vol. 9: The Possessed
Navigational Entanglements
The Butcher of the Forest
The Hunger and the Dusk: Vol. 1
The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain
Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right
The Brides of High Hill
We Called Them Giants
The Tusks of Extinction
“Charting the Cliff: An Investigation into the 2023 Hugo Nomination Statistics”
“Signs of Life”
“By Salt, By Sea, By Light of Stars”
“The Brotherhood of Montague St. Video”
“Loneliness Universe”
“The 2023 Hugo Awards: A Report on Censorship and Exclusion”
“The Four Sisters Overlooking the Sea”
“Lake of Souls”
also bought some books – orb of cairado and the foz meadows novella, so stuff to look at there!
His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik – a re-read! This is a favorite series, I have re-read this book like four times in the last decade. I was struck by a particular element of this novel’s pacing – just about the time in training when a book about combat training would have let the main characters try out the new and improved flight formations that they came up with on their own and would have wowed their peers and instructors, the war heats up and the stakes become much more clear.
What I’m Reading
Memory Library – Janelle Monae – Short stories for my book club, interesting world building around art and music and creativity and memory, but the sentence by sentence writing lacks a sense of cadence. Nothing shocks; nothing stops you in your tracks. This seems like it could have used another editorial pass, but it might just be a matter of taste.
Master and Commander – Patrick O’Brian – My audiobook choice for falling asleep to, which is not an insult, just a reflection of how soothing this narrator is. Absolutely not paying enough attention to this.
My Favorite Thing is Monsters -Emil Ferris - A comic book I am reading so that I can read the sequel piece for the hugos. It’s literally difficult to read: the conceit is that it’s a child’s notebook, so all the pages have the blue lines of school paper. The art is fascinating and I am about 30 pages in.
The Antarctica Conspiracy Derin Edala – slightly on hold.
What I’ll Read Next
Hugo Nominees are out!
Track Changes
The Deep Dark
My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Book 2
The Tainted Cup
Alien Clay
Service Model
The Ministry of Time
Someone You Can Build a Nest In
Star Trek: Lower Decks: Warp Your Own Way
Monstress, Vol. 9: The Possessed
Navigational Entanglements
The Butcher of the Forest
The Hunger and the Dusk: Vol. 1
The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain
Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right
The Brides of High Hill
We Called Them Giants
The Tusks of Extinction
“Charting the Cliff: An Investigation into the 2023 Hugo Nomination Statistics”
“Signs of Life”
“By Salt, By Sea, By Light of Stars”
“The Brotherhood of Montague St. Video”
“Loneliness Universe”
“The 2023 Hugo Awards: A Report on Censorship and Exclusion”
“The Four Sisters Overlooking the Sea”
“Lake of Souls”
also bought some books – orb of cairado and the foz meadows novella, so stuff to look at there!
