Wednesday Reading Meme

What are you currently reading
Legend of the White-Haired Demoness by Liang Yusheng, ch 12-13: After a couple chapters of not much happening, it went back to so much happening in a chapter that it'd probably take 10 episodes of a TV series to cover just that.

( brief spoilers )

7 Seeds Vol 2 by Yumi Tamara. Plot is taking off, will give the series its own post once I've read more of it.

( brief character design commentary with Basara spoiler )

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What did you recently finish reading?

Susan Elia MacNeal's His Majesty's Hope which I posted on separately.

Saga Vol 1-2 (or issues 1-12) by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples. SciFi epic in which a soldier falls in love with a prisoner whose race has been at war with hers for centuries (a war that has since pretty much taken over the universe) and they runaway together, only to have both their races put out contracts on them when it's learned they have a child. Which sounds like a fairly standard plotline, and I suppose it is, but it doesn't feel like it while reading. The story is told from the POV of their daughter, Hazel, and begins with her birth, and there are some interesting gender-reversals not only with her parents, but with supporting characters as well, and the "forbidden lovers," Alanna and Marco, are charming and adorable and functional even with literally the entire galazy hunting them. The worldbuilding (err, universebuilding, I guess) is also very complex and thought out, and while I could have done without one particular character design (if you've read it, you know exactly which one I'm referring to) most character designs are interesting and inventive. (I'm especially fond of the royals who have television monitors for heads. BECAUSE THESE ARE FORMALLY DRESSED ROYALS WHO HAVE TELEVISION MONITORS FOR HEADS.) Also, a romance novel is a revolutionary, life changing treatise. bless you, BKV. My only complaint so far is a scene in which a female character uses a sexual slur to insult another woman, and that a lot of the language and nudity feels to me like it falls into the category of being there to be "edgy."

What do you think you'll read next?

More 7 Seeds, Autobiography of A Geisha by Sayo Masuda.

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 Anyone know of any good pasta salad recipes?  (Preferably without mayonnaise.)