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Not-Actually-Wednesday
Feb. 23rd, 2024 10:51 pmI thought about doing this a couple days ago, but then it would've been on an actual Wednesday and We Can't Have That. So here's not-actually-Wednesday books, coming in correctly on a not-actually-Wednesday!
Probably a shorter one, because it's only been like a week.
Finished Reading Recently:
My walking-to-school book on Talia-the-ereader was a reread of my favourite fanfiction, The Paladin Protocol. It's a Big Bang Theory romance fic that's 80k words long and I have probably reread it approximately once a year since I first found it in like 2010. I am, obviously, a little embarrassed about this, but I think it's an utterly charming love story and it's a very very nice thing to return to on the regular, when I need absolutely not surprises and a good happily ever after.
I did get Alanna: The First Adventure (by Tamora Pierce) out from the library, and give it a read. It was fun! It's interesting that I don't feel especially compelled to read the rest of her quartet --oh, I should read the second one just because, as someone on tumblr once said "Alanna gets the fuck/marry/kill of [spoilers] 100% correct" but honestly, I love Kel so much overwhelmingly more that I'm just gonna read Squire again instead. It really depends on what I can check out from the library without too much bother. Oh, and to answer the question that prompted it, no, she does not (explicitly) go to see a sex worker to learn about her period while disguising herself as a boy (my favourite trope!), I was conflating Rispah and George's mom.
MyDnDPathfinder1 group was chatting last week about children's books and hit on the Wayside School series, which caused one of the four of us (maybe even me? I don't recall) to be all "oh yeah, there is actually a fourth book that just came out twenty-five years after A Little Stranger did" and all the rest of us to be like "wait shit I need to read that _immediately_". So we're doing DnD book club! So far I have successfully gotten paper copies of Stranger and "Beneath the Cloud of Doom" (the newest, the one I've never read!) from the library on my way out of town, and I have holds for Sideways Stories and Falling Down on Talia, waiting to come through. Anyways, I reread Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger by Louis Sacher, and it continues to be just fucking delightful. I think I may make a point of loading various Middle Grade books onto my ereader on the regular, so I can popcorn through them as something mindless and joyful.
(That's a thing I miss about substitute teaching, one of the rare things. I miss just charging through whoever's classroom I was in at the time and reading whatever they had lying around in my free time and during prep. That's how I found out about Clementine, who is darling, and also how I read most of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books. Which are _so compelling_ despite having a just awful protagonist, Greg is pretty awful but the writing is really really good.)
Also I finished the first volume of Squirrel Girl and now I am SUPER JAZZED to read the next eight or so I have checked out from the library.
Currently Reading
Stuff I've made little-to-no progress on, but do have bookmarks in: In the Serpent's Wake by Rachel Hartman (the sequel to Tess of the Road) and That Time I Got Drunk And Rescued A Demon by Kimberly Lemming (cheesy romance!).
I've read a few pages of Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner, because if there's anything for me to read that would get Racheline to unlurk and comment on my post, it's probably that. (I am pretty sure they do not actually have a dreamwidth account)
Reading in the Future
Obvs Wayside School Beneath the Cloud of Doom, that's currently the closest book at hand. Also the other two Waysides when their holds come in. Also JoshZed had never read Holes, which I will passionately defend as one of the best books ever written, not just in children's literature but in all of storytelling, so that's also got a hold out and I will reread it as soon as possible because it is So Good.
All of those things that are listed as currently reading, and need to get actually read. Also more volumes of Squirrel Girl, as aforementioned!
Austin gave me a late Holiday present: a copy of Baking Yesteryear, the B. Dylan Hollis cookbook. It's not exactly "reading" but maybe I am going to make Tuesday a cake for her birthday from it.
Mannnnnnnnnnn, there are so many things on this "to read in the future" list that I haven't gotten to yet, I better read more *determined*.
~Sor
MOOP!
1: Should I actually be consistent about doing this correctly? We play mostly by-the-book-with-a-little-homebrewing Pathfinder 2E (I think?) but DnD is faster to say? It's not actually, they're both three syllables (I need a linguist, stat) but I dunno. DnD is the kleenex of roleplaying games, is my opinion here.
Probably a shorter one, because it's only been like a week.
Finished Reading Recently:
My walking-to-school book on Talia-the-ereader was a reread of my favourite fanfiction, The Paladin Protocol. It's a Big Bang Theory romance fic that's 80k words long and I have probably reread it approximately once a year since I first found it in like 2010. I am, obviously, a little embarrassed about this, but I think it's an utterly charming love story and it's a very very nice thing to return to on the regular, when I need absolutely not surprises and a good happily ever after.
I did get Alanna: The First Adventure (by Tamora Pierce) out from the library, and give it a read. It was fun! It's interesting that I don't feel especially compelled to read the rest of her quartet --oh, I should read the second one just because, as someone on tumblr once said "Alanna gets the fuck/marry/kill of [spoilers] 100% correct" but honestly, I love Kel so much overwhelmingly more that I'm just gonna read Squire again instead. It really depends on what I can check out from the library without too much bother. Oh, and to answer the question that prompted it, no, she does not (explicitly) go to see a sex worker to learn about her period while disguising herself as a boy (my favourite trope!), I was conflating Rispah and George's mom.
My
(That's a thing I miss about substitute teaching, one of the rare things. I miss just charging through whoever's classroom I was in at the time and reading whatever they had lying around in my free time and during prep. That's how I found out about Clementine, who is darling, and also how I read most of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books. Which are _so compelling_ despite having a just awful protagonist, Greg is pretty awful but the writing is really really good.)
Also I finished the first volume of Squirrel Girl and now I am SUPER JAZZED to read the next eight or so I have checked out from the library.
Currently Reading
Stuff I've made little-to-no progress on, but do have bookmarks in: In the Serpent's Wake by Rachel Hartman (the sequel to Tess of the Road) and That Time I Got Drunk And Rescued A Demon by Kimberly Lemming (cheesy romance!).
I've read a few pages of Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner, because if there's anything for me to read that would get Racheline to unlurk and comment on my post, it's probably that. (I am pretty sure they do not actually have a dreamwidth account)
Reading in the Future
Obvs Wayside School Beneath the Cloud of Doom, that's currently the closest book at hand. Also the other two Waysides when their holds come in. Also JoshZed had never read Holes, which I will passionately defend as one of the best books ever written, not just in children's literature but in all of storytelling, so that's also got a hold out and I will reread it as soon as possible because it is So Good.
All of those things that are listed as currently reading, and need to get actually read. Also more volumes of Squirrel Girl, as aforementioned!
Austin gave me a late Holiday present: a copy of Baking Yesteryear, the B. Dylan Hollis cookbook. It's not exactly "reading" but maybe I am going to make Tuesday a cake for her birthday from it.
Mannnnnnnnnnn, there are so many things on this "to read in the future" list that I haven't gotten to yet, I better read more *determined*.
~Sor
MOOP!
1: Should I actually be consistent about doing this correctly? We play mostly by-the-book-with-a-little-homebrewing Pathfinder 2E (I think?) but DnD is faster to say? It's not actually, they're both three syllables (I need a linguist, stat) but I dunno. DnD is the kleenex of roleplaying games, is my opinion here.