Trainreads 72(ish) hour check in

[rmc28]

Hi all! The weekend is over, how did we do with our goals?

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[rmc28]

I got a badly timed migraine: missed half my train travel, but on the other hand spent more time reading.

• I started reading Black Sun and found it gripping enough to keep reading all the way to the end
• I was not well enough to go and pick up Beartown from the library, but I should be doing that later today
• After finishing Black Sun, I picked up a previously-started book: Indistractible by Nir Eyal, and finished that too

Black Sun: gripping, fast moving Aztec-inspired fantasy, quite gory in places, set around the climax of "Conjunction" when a solar eclipse happens at the winter solstice, and a prophecy seeks to overthrow the god and priesthood currently in power. I liked it very much but was a bit thrown by it ending pretty much on a cliffhanger waiting for the next book in the series. (Which is out, uh, in four days. I may just mash that preorder button.)

[shanaqui]

Sounds like I really need to hurry up and get to Black Sun...

Hope the migraine has passed off now, and you don't feel too icky in its aftermath.

[rmc28]

Not to enable you too much, but it's 99p on Kindle right now, if that's a thing that works for you.

I am holding off actually preordering the next (Fevered Star) because I have a goal of reading everything I buy in a month, and I gave into temptation and bought The House of Always (Chorus of Dragons 4) by Jenn Lyons last week. I probably won't finish that by end of April, i.e. end of Saturday, and I definitely don't have time to read both of them. But once we're in May and I've read the Jenn Lyons, it's fair game.

[shanaqui]

I was way overoptimistic on how much I could read when I'm dealing with a lot of stress and burnout... but to focus on the positives, I finished Dangerous to Know (Tasha Alexander), and I didn't even throw the book across the room with anger at the male protagonist! I also finished up The Obelisk Gate (N.K. Jemisin), and read some of Dangerous Spirits (Jordan L. Hawk).

[rmc28]

go you!

[autumndaze]

I finished "The Cobbler's Boy" by Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear, and started two new books because of course I did. But I'm looking forward to them, anyway.

[rmc28]

Hurrah for finishing books and new ones to look forward to!