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What I've Read
I have given up on Midnight Sun! Because, good god. Why bother.

I also gave up on the audiobook of True Believer, the autobiography of Stan Lee. It's just organized with a very odd way of bouncing back and forth in time, and not particular compassion for the living people involved.

I have finished nothing else, somehow. I think I was on a visual media kick this week - I slipped back into the second season of the Punisher because someone was talking about it on Tumblr, I watched like 10 episodes of The Story of Yanxi Palace. I saw The Batman!


What I'm Reading

Still on The Galaxy and the Ground Within - it's getting to the good parts!
Edit from Thursday: Having just finished this book, I can speak with authority - the endings are the good parts. The epilogues for each other characters were each a full culmination of the experiences that they'd had while stuck on the little planet. They were excellently composed vignettes for each character, built entirely on the relationships and conversations they'd had with the other former strangers trapped with them. I am so glad I persevered to the end of this book!

Have not touched Four Profound Weaves because I want to read it for next week.

What I'll Read Next


Monsters in the Closet - next up in the Great Queer Supernatural Re-watch Reading Club.

How did I re-read the Thief series and forget about the final book in the series? Which I have never read before! I'm a fool. I have it got it from the library as an audiobook and I'm delighted to start it soon.

I'm going to read Being Seen, the Past is Red, Never Say You Can't Survive.
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Currently Reading
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers, which I sought out after finding some pages posted on Tumblr talking about the linguistics. So far, I'm about 25 pages in and I'm intrigued!

Recently Finished: 

Litfic - A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine, which I cannot recommend highly enough!  It was a fantastic, well paced story, with a thoughtful and engaging main character, full of court intrigue and the absolute disorientation of being a stranger in a strange land.  Mahit has an observant and careful mind, and watching thru her eyes as she both gloried in the culture of the place she's wanted to visit for her entire life, and began to saw all the flaws and compromises of the place firsthand? A bliss. I ended up buying it just to keep a copy for myself - a great book, and the first in a series, I see! Also, her first book, which is just amazing. 

Fanfic - Graduate Vulcan for Fun and Profit by lazulisong - Reread - Star Trek Reboot - Gen - This came up in conversation with a friend when we returned to our (delayed for The Magicians obsession) slow traipse thru Star Trek TOS. It's a wonderful, language-y kind of story, that shows a side of reboot!Kirk we don't see in the film. He's smart, hardworking, and absolutely shuns the spotlight for his academic work. There's also a wonderful slow worldbuilding for the surviving passengers and crew of the Kelvin, the ship that Jim's father captained for a eight awful, shining moments in the first reboot film - Jim's got a vast array of aunties and uncles and quasi-parents who all take notice and wish the best for him, and godDAMMIT, he can't get away from them. Gen! 

Fanfic - Competition by astolat - Game of Thrones - Jaime Lannister/Brienne of Tarth - Happily, not even slightly canon compliant now! Jaime Lannister can't get himself to actually tell Brienne he likes her. He is absolutely the only one with that problem. I'm just going to leave this bit here: “'The Dothraki have a saying, Lady Brienne,' Missandei said, smiling at her. 'Better a tall wife than a fast horse. And they love fast horses very much.'”  

Life stuff: 
I talked to my doc about my knee pain, which is anterior to the patella and seems to be a stress injury related to biking a lot in an otherwise sedentary lifestyle. I'm going to my first PT visit Friday. 

I have been moved, finally, at last, to a office where I can control the lights, so no more headaches for me! I'm already feeling massively better. And I have it to myself until the end of June, when our new hire starts. 

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