3 Weeks 4 Dreamwidth Minithon Midway

[kalloway]

How's it going, readingtogether?

The good, the bad, the 'I ended up reading something else entirely' are all welcome.

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[kalloway]

I read through the four volumes of My Happy Marriage that I have and am ready to get the next. I couldn't remember where I'd left off but thought it was in Vol. 2. Nope, it was towards the very end of Vol. 3, but I'm not going to complain about the refresher, especially as the cast has grown exponentially.

I (aptly) borrowed Shojo Morimoto's Rental Person Who Does Nothing from the library and it was also a quick read. I wish it had been less what it was and more about specific requests. Those were some of the most interesting parts.

I also started Ghosts, Monsters, and Demons of India, which is encyclopedic and not quite the sort of thing I can read straight through. Fantastic reference, though, and I can see reading entries here and there between other things.

[fred_mouse]

Lots of reading *\o/*

[taichara]

I read the 1177 BC graphic novel version and am somewhere between a third and a half through After 1177 BC ...

I took a detour through a cookbook and a few zines and kind of expect a change of the rest of reading plans once a bookorder arrives.

Picked up one of my own works after avoiding all of them for years; have not died yet, might die later.

[kalloway]

\o/ Lots of things~!

[fred_mouse]

I have progressed the selected book not very much, but as it is part of a larger project of 'read as much of the Hugo nominated works' and I've read at least 1.5 books elsewise, I'm pretty happy (the 1.5 are part of a nom for Best Series, and ah, I will not be bothering to source book 3 with any effort. I am so bored, I tell you, that if it were not that I borrowed the ebook and thus have been reading it on the train, I would have given up. Which is kind of how I felt about book 1 as well. I am not the intended audience for this series).

[kalloway]

Ack, sorry that didn't work out. I hope whatever you get to next is better.

[fred_mouse]

I have two other new things on the go (which is a foolish thing to have done, but I haven't been able to hold focus well on any one story), and they are both quite dark but much more interesting. I anticipate raving about one of them, and declaring that the other is interesting but not for me (and, given it is very much a YA book, that isn't a surprise)

[lumiosecity]

Romanov is turning out to be way harder to get through than I anticipated, but I’ve been trying to push through anyway because I don’t like leaving books half-finished and starting new ones.

I should probably break that habit and start reading Soul Eater tomorrow— maybe immersing in a different story will help me tackle Romanov with fresh eyes.

[kalloway]

It couldn't hurt? Best of luck!

[lumiosecity]

Definitely couldn’t hurt, yeah. Thank you!

[mekare]

I finished Mo Xiang Tong Xu's fifth volume of The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation (there really wasn't that much left). Also made some progress in Notes on Yoga: The legacy of Vanda Scaravelli, so overall okay.

I hope to finish my Chinese poetry antology until the 15th and dive more into Color and Light.

[kalloway]

I still need to read the little bonus chapters in that fifth volume, though I finished the main story back when it came out in English. ^^;;

[mekare]

The bonus chapters are charming and a good mix of fluff, adventure and plain domestic vibes. Oh and there is a flashback one.

[cactus_rs]

I finished the book I had set for my goal, and finished up a couple lingering others besides, so now I'm taking a quick break to write reviews.

[mekare]

Yay!

[rekishi]

I finished "Ocean's Echo" (which was my goal book) and am now partway through a 108k Good Omens Fic.

[mekare]

Well done!

[rekishi]

Thank you! I am amazed at my new-found reading skills.

(Still slow, but much better than I was doing previously.... I may have figured out the reason, too, but ugh, introspection.)

[scintilla10]

Yay, go you!

I haven't finished it yet – but I'm traveling this weekend, which means some built-in reading time. :D

[rekishi]

Fantastic! Hopefully you'll make some headway, I'd love to chat about it (I posted my thoughts over on my DW so we can do it wherever XD)!

[scintilla10]

My first goal was to finish Burn it Down, which I did, and have now returned it to the library!

Second goal was to make progress on Ocean's Echo, so I'll turn to that this weekend. :)

[kalloway]

Hooray! \o/ Have a good weekend!

[zdenka]

I wound up reading Seven Gothic Tales by Isak Dinesen, though it wasn't on my list. I'd started it once before, but I bogged down when two of the characters started having a plot-relevant conversation by quoting untranslated Italian poetry at each other. This time I looked up the poetry and found it was quotations from Dante's Purgatorio. Dinesen's writing is very beautiful and evocative, and she has intriguing and unusual characters. I also enjoy/admire the way she is able to stack stories within stories within stories. That said, I sometimes wind up unclear why the characters are doing what they did, or what exactly happened and why, or I would like to know what happened after the dramatic revelations (but she intentionally ends the story there or leaves it as an ambiguous "lady or the tiger" ending). Also, she is very weird about Jews! There's one story where she strongly sets up the "evil sinister Jew" trope, and then part of the twist is that the Jewish character isn't actually evil. Thanks, I guess? :P But she seems to think of us as strange and mystical, definitely not normal human beings. (I'm prepared for period-typical attitudes when I read older literature; it's just, yes, that's a thing that's there.)

I did also finish Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks, though I'd need more time to write it up. And I've been reading a bunch of short stories that were nominated for an award, though I'm now blanking on what award it was, because distractible ADHD brain . . .