Never Wednesday, Mostly Media
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sorcyressNever Wednesday, Mostly Media!
Recently Finished Reading:
I got a bit bogged down, but just yesterday I finished Shadow Scale, the sequel to Seraphina (both by Rachel Hartman). My overall verdicts include that Seraphina is pretty great the entire way through, but Shadow Scale drags for the first half, then soars for the second. Once they get to Poryphy things get good, and once they arrive at Lab 4 and meet a bunch of Quigs, things get REALLY good. It turns out the only thing I like more than dragons-as-metaphor-for-neurospicy is dragon-relatives who are even more spiced and weirdly outcast to boot.
And yes, I can't help but contrast them with the Blues from Lackey's Mage Storms trilogy, and you know? I can live with that comparison, and I think all of them would be down with it too.
Also, obviously the ending to the romantic subplot in these two books was satisfying as shit because I am fully capable enough to read between those lines and see what is unspoken but plain as daylight on the page. Absolutely fabulous!
That's all I've managed in the last two weeks --Philly last weekend took up a _lot_ of time I could've spent reading (because I was riding in the car with Liz and chatting with her instead, and then because I was frantically and desperately reading my stack of dance books. Should I put Strathsbabes on my reading list? That is an intentionally silly choice, but at the same time...)
Currently Reading:
I am reading a book on my phone, which is stunning unto me, I never do that. But I have to read it there, it's not published into paper...yet. Alys gives her official draft to her agent in like...a month? So I'm doing a beta read, and it's wonderful. There's things I wish I knew more about and things I am learning and an adventure that seems to be thrumming along delightfully.
(I'm not giving the title both out of respect and because I hate the working title it currently has, and should probably mention that to Al at some point. I'm pretty sure titles are one of those things that authors don't actually have a lot of control over, but I still desperately want it to be called something that doesn't earworm me an obnoxious song I learned in high school every single time I read it.)
Reading in the Future:
The library books currently on my desk are Tess of the Road (and its sequel) which are not-exactly-sequels-but-same-world to Seraphina. The elemental logic quartet, which Keshwyn got so excited about when I mentioned it last. Steerswoman, which might be the last of the books SamSam emphatically recommended this summer when we were talking reading.
Everything else is still buzzing in the back of the head, but refusing to sit down. Surely seven novels is enough that I don't need to plan past that right now?
Currently Watching:
Tailsteak and I finished Taskmaster EnZed04, and have moved on to the currently airing UK series 16, which is being put up on YouTube only 24 hours after it airs in the UK! Just...for anyone to watch!!! Do you know how to defeat American pirates stealing all your shit? Just like...make it easy to watch in a way that you can set up advertising and count video views and whatever else.
Charis made sounds about an Over the Garden Wall watch some evening soon, and I am over the moon at the very thought. Yes please!
mek and I need to figure out when we will watch the Gay Pirates Season Two, because dang, there've been several episodes of that out already, yeah?
And that's it. I've played bits and pieces of stupid phone games, but I really have been too busy for media lately. Oh --Assassins, obviously, but I wrote about that separately.
~Sor
MOOP!
Recently Finished Reading:
I got a bit bogged down, but just yesterday I finished Shadow Scale, the sequel to Seraphina (both by Rachel Hartman). My overall verdicts include that Seraphina is pretty great the entire way through, but Shadow Scale drags for the first half, then soars for the second. Once they get to Poryphy things get good, and once they arrive at Lab 4 and meet a bunch of Quigs, things get REALLY good. It turns out the only thing I like more than dragons-as-metaphor-for-neurospicy is dragon-relatives who are even more spiced and weirdly outcast to boot.
And yes, I can't help but contrast them with the Blues from Lackey's Mage Storms trilogy, and you know? I can live with that comparison, and I think all of them would be down with it too.
Also, obviously the ending to the romantic subplot in these two books was satisfying as shit because I am fully capable enough to read between those lines and see what is unspoken but plain as daylight on the page. Absolutely fabulous!
That's all I've managed in the last two weeks --Philly last weekend took up a _lot_ of time I could've spent reading (because I was riding in the car with Liz and chatting with her instead, and then because I was frantically and desperately reading my stack of dance books. Should I put Strathsbabes on my reading list? That is an intentionally silly choice, but at the same time...)
Currently Reading:
I am reading a book on my phone, which is stunning unto me, I never do that. But I have to read it there, it's not published into paper...yet. Alys gives her official draft to her agent in like...a month? So I'm doing a beta read, and it's wonderful. There's things I wish I knew more about and things I am learning and an adventure that seems to be thrumming along delightfully.
(I'm not giving the title both out of respect and because I hate the working title it currently has, and should probably mention that to Al at some point. I'm pretty sure titles are one of those things that authors don't actually have a lot of control over, but I still desperately want it to be called something that doesn't earworm me an obnoxious song I learned in high school every single time I read it.)
Reading in the Future:
The library books currently on my desk are Tess of the Road (and its sequel) which are not-exactly-sequels-but-same-world to Seraphina. The elemental logic quartet, which Keshwyn got so excited about when I mentioned it last. Steerswoman, which might be the last of the books SamSam emphatically recommended this summer when we were talking reading.
Everything else is still buzzing in the back of the head, but refusing to sit down. Surely seven novels is enough that I don't need to plan past that right now?
Currently Watching:
Tailsteak and I finished Taskmaster EnZed04, and have moved on to the currently airing UK series 16, which is being put up on YouTube only 24 hours after it airs in the UK! Just...for anyone to watch!!! Do you know how to defeat American pirates stealing all your shit? Just like...make it easy to watch in a way that you can set up advertising and count video views and whatever else.
Charis made sounds about an Over the Garden Wall watch some evening soon, and I am over the moon at the very thought. Yes please!
mek and I need to figure out when we will watch the Gay Pirates Season Two, because dang, there've been several episodes of that out already, yeah?
And that's it. I've played bits and pieces of stupid phone games, but I really have been too busy for media lately. Oh --Assassins, obviously, but I wrote about that separately.
~Sor
MOOP!
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on 2023-10-16 12:24 am (UTC)Currently 3/4 through the first of the Elemental Logic books and it is also v v good. The prose is of a flavour I normally bounce off of, which makes it slower going than I'd like, but very much worth the effort.