November Group Read: First Check-In

[kalloway]

Here we are, one week in. Have you finished or started anything? How are you feeling? (It is perfectly fine if the answers are "no", "nope", and "augh", of course.)


For added optional discussion, if you'd like- Do you ever DNF (Did Not Finish) books? If so, what makes you DNF something and when? Style? Content? Not grabbing you after x% of pages? Something else? Or are you the type of reader who finishes everything you start, no matter what?

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[taichara]

Finished off Meat: a kitchen education and The Insect Cookbook: food for a sustainable planet, with inroads made on The Unknown Tutankhamun, Akhenaten: history, fantasy and ancient Egypt, and a hand-bound print of a nice facsimile version of the combined edition of Classic Traveller's three Little Black Books.

A few other things here and there, and gathering up some zines to (re)read, but mostly those.


Funny you mention DNFs, though -- and I'll abandon a book for all of the above and then some, because life's too short to read a book I can't stand -- because Horemheb: the forgotten pharaoh is a DNF this time! *lol*

Not that I'm surprised by this, because the first time was hilariously painful enough but I had to go back and see if I was exaggerating it in memory. I was not, lol.

You know when you stumble across in fandom a big ol' essay about an oh~ so overlooked and perfect and precious character and the author is clearly, shall we say, invested? Picture that, but an actual textbook. About a historical figure. This lady makes the Richard III fans look positively sensible -- she even inverts one of the poor man's titles to make it even more impressive! (her Deputy King -- oh I'm sorry, Deputy King, because for some reason all the big important titles are italicized -- is more properly rendered "King's Deputy" by every other scholar I have ever come across. lol.)

Even the intro is a wonder -- but no, I can't read this book twice X3

[peaceful_sands]

Deputy King??? I don't blame you for DNFing that one - totally different to a King's Deputy - even if there were such a thing, the meaning would be vastly different to my mind.

Hope the coming week's reading goes well.

[taichara]

Oh yeah, it was a special book. Lol.

Thanks kindly ~