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Weekly Wednesday Reading meme
Oct. 30th, 2013 09:34 pmWhat are you currently reading
Nothing, because I finished the novella I was reading about half an hour ago.
What did you recently finish reading?
I finished Absolute Witch, which I posted on separately.
Chimes and Midnight by Seanan McGuire. The seventh October Daye novel, and certainly a gamechanger. (Enough so that I was actually expecting the A plot to have to carry over into the next book before it was resolved.) This is possibly the only book I have read in which the words "evil pie" were completely accurate and as serious as they were absurd. I'm not sure, but I think (hope) that the next arc of the series will bring the focus to Toby's mother and her mysteries.
( spoilers )
Kitty and the Dead Man's Hand by Carrie Vaughn. This one has Kitty going to Vegas and doing a live show, while meeting the Vegas supernatural crowd on the side. I liked the parts about the show and the parts with Kitty's parents a lot, and was generally enjoying it until near the end, where ?Vaughn actually managed to make me feel physically ill.
( spoiler )
The Earl and the Fairy Vol 1 by Mizue Tani and Ayuki. Adaptation of light novels set in Victorian England, and a girl named Lydia who can talk to fairies, and a possibly-fake nobleman named Edgar who abducts her (by way of rescuing her from other, less nice abductors) and then hires her to help him find a fairy artifact. I enjoyed the anime based on the same light novels, and this is very similar, though it doesn't give so much deja vu to make me want to stop reading, though I do find Edgar's "La, I have abducted you but it was at least partly for your own good. Also, look at my angst that makes me more dark and dangerous." more insufferable than I recall finding it in the anime.
Capturing the Silken Thief by Jeannie Lin. Novella set in Tang Dynasty China, about a scholar studying for his exams, and a song girl who thinks he stole a valuable book from her. Very enjoyable, but too short, IMO.
What do you think you'll read next?
Manga, probably a romance novel. Maybe one of the Twelve Kingdoms books that I haven't read yet that I found English translations of online.
Nothing, because I finished the novella I was reading about half an hour ago.
What did you recently finish reading?
I finished Absolute Witch, which I posted on separately.
Chimes and Midnight by Seanan McGuire. The seventh October Daye novel, and certainly a gamechanger. (Enough so that I was actually expecting the A plot to have to carry over into the next book before it was resolved.) This is possibly the only book I have read in which the words "evil pie" were completely accurate and as serious as they were absurd. I'm not sure, but I think (hope) that the next arc of the series will bring the focus to Toby's mother and her mysteries.
( spoilers )
Kitty and the Dead Man's Hand by Carrie Vaughn. This one has Kitty going to Vegas and doing a live show, while meeting the Vegas supernatural crowd on the side. I liked the parts about the show and the parts with Kitty's parents a lot, and was generally enjoying it until near the end, where ?Vaughn actually managed to make me feel physically ill.
( spoiler )
The Earl and the Fairy Vol 1 by Mizue Tani and Ayuki. Adaptation of light novels set in Victorian England, and a girl named Lydia who can talk to fairies, and a possibly-fake nobleman named Edgar who abducts her (by way of rescuing her from other, less nice abductors) and then hires her to help him find a fairy artifact. I enjoyed the anime based on the same light novels, and this is very similar, though it doesn't give so much deja vu to make me want to stop reading, though I do find Edgar's "La, I have abducted you but it was at least partly for your own good. Also, look at my angst that makes me more dark and dangerous." more insufferable than I recall finding it in the anime.
Capturing the Silken Thief by Jeannie Lin. Novella set in Tang Dynasty China, about a scholar studying for his exams, and a song girl who thinks he stole a valuable book from her. Very enjoyable, but too short, IMO.
What do you think you'll read next?
Manga, probably a romance novel. Maybe one of the Twelve Kingdoms books that I haven't read yet that I found English translations of online.
