March Reading

Recent: Finished various of the books in the last post.

At work this month I read Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (Thomas de Quincey was an ass), The Book of Tea (loved it, wish the 20th century had gone more like Okakura Kakuzo wanted it to), and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (which I'd never read all the way through before). I'm now onto Through the Looking-Glass, which I think I have read all of before. (My introduction to Carroll was the Collected Works, so it's all kind of mixed up together with math riddles and poetry.)

I also read eunnieboo's comic If You'll Have Me from the library, and then ordered it for consultingpiskies' birthday. (It arrived early, so I can post this.) Adorable fluffy lesbian college romance, just what I needed, also great visual storytelling.

Very little non-fanfic reading generally, mental health not doing great. However, I do now actually have a RWRB fic rec. It's not that I haven't enjoyed a lot of the fics I've read, it's that I have enjoyed them with caveats that I would want to discuss if I talk about them at all, and I'm not going to inflict that on someone who posted their work for free in fandom (even on my own public blog). But Let Loose Your Glow by athousandrooms is another adorable fluffy slowburn college romance, and I have no notes, also just what I needed, well done.

(That said, I have uncomplicatedly enjoyed a lot of RWRB fic that is not novel length, and usually also utterly filthy (laudatory), such as this and most of clottedcreamfudge's works.)

Current: I really really want to like this gay scifi Regency romance, but ... I don't. Oh well. Maybe I'll try a later one in the series.

I am enjoying T. R. Darling's Quiet Pine Trees (quietpinetrees), a collection of SFF microfiction that you may have seen on Twitter.

I'm several entries behind in my-pal-bertie (The Inimitable Jeeves by subscription, à la Dracula Daily), and I have a bunch more things I am halfway through which I'm not really picking up again.

Future: Everything is currently going very slowly so we'll see. Maybe I'll reread something.