May Reading
May. 30th, 2024 04:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
violsvaRecent: RWRB fanfic continuing as usual. Otherwise, lots of trouble settling on or keeping focused on things, until You Should Be So Lucky by Cat Sebastian came out. Finished it well before it needed to be returned, highly recommended, very sweet, everyone deserves hugs.
At work, The Three Musketeers, chosen specifically because it was long enough to last until yesterday when my contract was up and would hopefully be engrossing (so I wouldn't have to try and figure out something new to read). Worked on both counts. Not sure I liked it exactly, but I am very glad to have another addition to the list of Awesome Female Villains Who Should Get to Murder Whoever They Want.
Current: Just gave up on The Perks of Loving a Wallflower, which has a kind of narrative voice I dislike and the historical issues which I associate with it. Isn't it lovely to live in a world with enough historical lesbian romances that we can cast aside the ones we don't like?
Nightborn by Isabel Cooper, who seems to share a lot of my taste in tropes. I've liked all the other books I've read by her, including the previous one in this series, and this looks likely to continue.
In audio, The Grand Tour, or The Purloined Coronation Regalia by Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer. I don't feel like I'm paying as much attention to the plot as I should be, but it's working for when I can't have Dimension 20 as crafting background noise.
A couple different crafting books, the authors of which I have varied opinions on.
Stolen Sharpie Revolution by Alex Wrekk has been hanging out in my purse for a while, but after TCAF I picked it up properly again.
And today I am at the library doing life admin things and I read the first chapter of Unmarriages: Women, Men, and Sexual Unions in the Middle Ages by Ruth Mazo Karras in between.
Future: This weekend I am going to Chicago with my siblings and my niece, which may result in either a lot of reading or very little reading. As well as the above I have a collection of Virginia Woolf's short stories and Gentleman Wolf by Joanna Chambers, and we'll see which if any gets picked up.
At work, The Three Musketeers, chosen specifically because it was long enough to last until yesterday when my contract was up and would hopefully be engrossing (so I wouldn't have to try and figure out something new to read). Worked on both counts. Not sure I liked it exactly, but I am very glad to have another addition to the list of Awesome Female Villains Who Should Get to Murder Whoever They Want.
Current: Just gave up on The Perks of Loving a Wallflower, which has a kind of narrative voice I dislike and the historical issues which I associate with it. Isn't it lovely to live in a world with enough historical lesbian romances that we can cast aside the ones we don't like?
Nightborn by Isabel Cooper, who seems to share a lot of my taste in tropes. I've liked all the other books I've read by her, including the previous one in this series, and this looks likely to continue.
In audio, The Grand Tour, or The Purloined Coronation Regalia by Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer. I don't feel like I'm paying as much attention to the plot as I should be, but it's working for when I can't have Dimension 20 as crafting background noise.
A couple different crafting books, the authors of which I have varied opinions on.
Stolen Sharpie Revolution by Alex Wrekk has been hanging out in my purse for a while, but after TCAF I picked it up properly again.
And today I am at the library doing life admin things and I read the first chapter of Unmarriages: Women, Men, and Sexual Unions in the Middle Ages by Ruth Mazo Karras in between.
Future: This weekend I am going to Chicago with my siblings and my niece, which may result in either a lot of reading or very little reading. As well as the above I have a collection of Virginia Woolf's short stories and Gentleman Wolf by Joanna Chambers, and we'll see which if any gets picked up.