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sorcyressBeen a few weeks, but I have actually been trying to read some things!
Finished Reading Recently:
Almost immediately after my last entry, I re-upped my Slipshine subscription since David Willis dropped another Pornographique for Dumbing of Age. So I read or reread all of those that exist, and then went ahead and reread all of xxxenophile which is there (which is _not_ all of xxxenophile, although I think I can only remember one specific story that hasn't been posted). It was a good run of smut, and especially the latter reminded me how _joyous_ sex should be.
At some point while SamSam was visiting over memorial day, I went and got The Pirate's Mixed Up Voyage by Margaret Mahy, to read some passages aloud. Oh right, it was the gingerbread bits, because we were making some (although not nearly as hot as CashCash gingerbread). I let the book languish out for a few days (I was busy with Sam watching Sailor Moon) but it has been a clip and sure enough I charged right through it on the Monday while they were still visiting.
Then post-memorial day was the sudden "oh fuck, we only have three weeks left of school" and everything got REAL BUSY and I had to stop all my projects for a clip. I am still hopelessly behind on emails and _mad_ about it, there are like 200+ emails I have to sort through just to get back caught up! Anyways I wasn't reading for a bit, but then one of my many-week holds on my ereader popped and I had a copy of Naomi Novik's A Deadly Education.
So I read a bit during the dull parts of graduation (I listen and applaud to student names and to any speech by a student, but I cannot admit to thinking fondly towards adults talking) and found it decent, and stumbled into LCFD weekend at Pinewoods and doing a bit more reading during mealtimes and on the paths and then just as I got hooked I also got the warning that I only had one day left on the checkout and then it would go back into the hopelessly long waiting list and it'd be another 12 weeks or whatever before I could finish.
That will not do.
Charged through the rest of it on Monday of this week. Was so _flabbergasted_ by the last line that I desperately went pawing through the app for digital holds, gnashed my terrible teeth, and requested that physical copies be brought to the library branch closest to work, where I normally get things. And then that evening, swung by a different library branch on the way to dance because I'd seen they had them, and I was literally setting up chairs for the dance AGM one handed with my nose buried in a hardback.
(A brief aside, on Monday I also reread Boy Meets Boy, by David Levithan, because goddddd I need some queer joy in my life right now. I fuckin' sobbed at That One Part that I'm pretty sure I've always sobbed at. The book holds up surprisingly well for a queer high school story written in 2003 --like, it's definitely _dated_ but it's only cringey for being foolish high schoolers (and that's never going to change) and not particularly for being out of touch.)
I was so drained by the AGM and then by the complicated (and, it turns out, well deserved) dread about TMC, and also by the huge amount of finals grading I have to do that I didn't read at all yesterday.
And so today I brought a 75% unread book, and went to field day, and absolutely participated with gusto for the first two hours but eventually trailed off to a corner of grass in the sunshine and started reading.
And went up to my classroom for lunch and continued reading.
And got some students settled with making up their final exams, squeezing out a few more points, and continued reading.
And went to the staff awards and again read during the dull bits and paid attention and applauded for the actually congratulating people bits and had nice conversation with Clayton and some of the art teachers and then went back into my classroom for the end of the day and finished book two, The Last Graduate.
I'm not stupid, I already had book three checked out, gotten at the same time and library on Monday. But I forced myself to bike home before cracking spine, and managed to pause to call my mom for 45 minutes, and was only half an hour late to my date with mek and look, I finished The Golden Enclaves in about six hours including interruptions.
They're pretty fucking great, and I enjoyed them a lot.
Currently Reading:
I see that my ereader _just_ popped another of those multiple week holds, so it looks like it's gonna be trying again to actually read Swordspoint, by Ellen Kushner
I am also reading final exams. It is not enjoyable.
To Be Read Next:
I dunno, it's about to be ~Pinewoods~ and ~summer~ and all these things that are gonna give me weird schedules. I was recommended Sir Callie and the Champions of Helston by a 13 year old I know and like, so I gotta pick that one up. Maybe try a second Percy Jackson book? I have a sneaking suspicion I am quite close to a full or semi-full Toby Daye reread --pretty sure last time I did that I was tracking all the different magics and species on just like...scraps of paper which probably means it predates my having a brain-organizing discord server.
And maybe I say "okay Novik, you have earned the fuck out of this trust" and go pick up some of the Temeraire books, especially considering I used to have several paperbacks and I'm not positive I've gotten rid of those yet.
But I have a sneaking suspicion that my favourite genre in the entire world is "angry Heralds", between certain parts of Murderbot and now El in the Scholomance, so if you have any recommendations there...
~Sor
MOOP!
Finished Reading Recently:
Almost immediately after my last entry, I re-upped my Slipshine subscription since David Willis dropped another Pornographique for Dumbing of Age. So I read or reread all of those that exist, and then went ahead and reread all of xxxenophile which is there (which is _not_ all of xxxenophile, although I think I can only remember one specific story that hasn't been posted). It was a good run of smut, and especially the latter reminded me how _joyous_ sex should be.
At some point while SamSam was visiting over memorial day, I went and got The Pirate's Mixed Up Voyage by Margaret Mahy, to read some passages aloud. Oh right, it was the gingerbread bits, because we were making some (although not nearly as hot as CashCash gingerbread). I let the book languish out for a few days (I was busy with Sam watching Sailor Moon) but it has been a clip and sure enough I charged right through it on the Monday while they were still visiting.
Then post-memorial day was the sudden "oh fuck, we only have three weeks left of school" and everything got REAL BUSY and I had to stop all my projects for a clip. I am still hopelessly behind on emails and _mad_ about it, there are like 200+ emails I have to sort through just to get back caught up! Anyways I wasn't reading for a bit, but then one of my many-week holds on my ereader popped and I had a copy of Naomi Novik's A Deadly Education.
So I read a bit during the dull parts of graduation (I listen and applaud to student names and to any speech by a student, but I cannot admit to thinking fondly towards adults talking) and found it decent, and stumbled into LCFD weekend at Pinewoods and doing a bit more reading during mealtimes and on the paths and then just as I got hooked I also got the warning that I only had one day left on the checkout and then it would go back into the hopelessly long waiting list and it'd be another 12 weeks or whatever before I could finish.
That will not do.
Charged through the rest of it on Monday of this week. Was so _flabbergasted_ by the last line that I desperately went pawing through the app for digital holds, gnashed my terrible teeth, and requested that physical copies be brought to the library branch closest to work, where I normally get things. And then that evening, swung by a different library branch on the way to dance because I'd seen they had them, and I was literally setting up chairs for the dance AGM one handed with my nose buried in a hardback.
(A brief aside, on Monday I also reread Boy Meets Boy, by David Levithan, because goddddd I need some queer joy in my life right now. I fuckin' sobbed at That One Part that I'm pretty sure I've always sobbed at. The book holds up surprisingly well for a queer high school story written in 2003 --like, it's definitely _dated_ but it's only cringey for being foolish high schoolers (and that's never going to change) and not particularly for being out of touch.)
I was so drained by the AGM and then by the complicated (and, it turns out, well deserved) dread about TMC, and also by the huge amount of finals grading I have to do that I didn't read at all yesterday.
And so today I brought a 75% unread book, and went to field day, and absolutely participated with gusto for the first two hours but eventually trailed off to a corner of grass in the sunshine and started reading.
And went up to my classroom for lunch and continued reading.
And got some students settled with making up their final exams, squeezing out a few more points, and continued reading.
And went to the staff awards and again read during the dull bits and paid attention and applauded for the actually congratulating people bits and had nice conversation with Clayton and some of the art teachers and then went back into my classroom for the end of the day and finished book two, The Last Graduate.
I'm not stupid, I already had book three checked out, gotten at the same time and library on Monday. But I forced myself to bike home before cracking spine, and managed to pause to call my mom for 45 minutes, and was only half an hour late to my date with mek and look, I finished The Golden Enclaves in about six hours including interruptions.
They're pretty fucking great, and I enjoyed them a lot.
Currently Reading:
I see that my ereader _just_ popped another of those multiple week holds, so it looks like it's gonna be trying again to actually read Swordspoint, by Ellen Kushner
I am also reading final exams. It is not enjoyable.
To Be Read Next:
I dunno, it's about to be ~Pinewoods~ and ~summer~ and all these things that are gonna give me weird schedules. I was recommended Sir Callie and the Champions of Helston by a 13 year old I know and like, so I gotta pick that one up. Maybe try a second Percy Jackson book? I have a sneaking suspicion I am quite close to a full or semi-full Toby Daye reread --pretty sure last time I did that I was tracking all the different magics and species on just like...scraps of paper which probably means it predates my having a brain-organizing discord server.
And maybe I say "okay Novik, you have earned the fuck out of this trust" and go pick up some of the Temeraire books, especially considering I used to have several paperbacks and I'm not positive I've gotten rid of those yet.
But I have a sneaking suspicion that my favourite genre in the entire world is "angry Heralds", between certain parts of Murderbot and now El in the Scholomance, so if you have any recommendations there...
~Sor
MOOP!
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on 2024-06-13 03:56 am (UTC)By the way, have you read Golden Age and Other Stories by Naomi Novik? It's a short story collection for the Temeraire universe that has a really good glimpse into pre-canon Jane Roland.
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on 2024-06-13 11:18 am (UTC)I would've loved to commiserate with people while waiting, but I don't regret being to knock out all three in like 72 hours! ;)
~Sor
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on 2024-06-13 02:42 pm (UTC)