wednesday reading meme
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bedlamsbardnot!Wednesday reading meme. I missed...a couple of weeks. I missed many weeks. I'm really bad at this.
What I've just finished
Stray Souls and The Glass God by Kate Griffin. I really like this universe; I'm slightly less keen on Sharon as a narrator than Matthew, though I can't put my finger on why, precisely. Maybe it's the slightly lighter nature of the books. I'm glad that Magicals Anonymous has so far been better about not having secondary female characters dying than the Matthew Swift ones are, though.
Valor's Trial by Tanya Huff. Damn, she killed everybody. (Well, not everybody, but like: WOW.) And people say I'm a ruthless writer.
A Free Man of Color by Barbara Hambly. Reread; I think I'm going to work my way through the series again, though I'm going to have to pack most of them up and take them to...New Orleans, appropriately. Kicking off my Barbara Hambly reread; I really like her prose.
Feed, Deadline, Blackout, and assorted Newsflesh novellas by Mira Grant (rereads), all of which I read while I was in New Orleans or on the plane. I don't know, I was on the plane scrolling through my Kindle and went, you know what, I think I'm going to reread these heartbreaking books about zombies and codependent siblings and truth and freedom. (These books are amazeballs, by the way.)
Parasite by Mira Grant (reread). I was still in a Newsflesh state of mind and went onto the next Mira Grant book. Parasite doesn't ping my narrative kinks the way Feed does, but most books don't because I have weird narrative kinks.
Mystic and Rider by Sharon Shinn. Not quite sure how I feel about this book yet.
The Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch. Reread. I like the flashback/backstory slightly more than I like the main story, which is frustrating.
What I'm currently reading
Actively reading: Bride of the Rat God by Barbara Hambly (reread), The Truth of Valor by Tanya Huff, Sisters of the Raven by Barbara Hambly (reread), Fever Season by Barbara Hambly (reread), Blood Red by Mercedes Lackey.
In progress but not actually reading: The Wizard Hunters by Martha Wells (reread), The Searchers by Glenn Frankel, Marked by Kit Rocha, Lauren Dane, and Vivian Arend, The Courtiers by Lucy Worsley, Written in My Own Heart's Blood by Diana Gabaldon, Legions of Hell by C.J. Cherryh, The Illustrious Dead: The Terrifying Story of How Typhus Killed Napoleon's Greatest Army by Stephan Talty, Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie, Star Wars: Darth Plagueis by James Luceno, The Hawkwood War by Ankaret Wells.
What I'm reading next
Let's be real, probably more Barbara Hambly. (It's the prose. I can't put my finger on what exactly it is about the prose, but that's it.)
What I've just finished
Stray Souls and The Glass God by Kate Griffin. I really like this universe; I'm slightly less keen on Sharon as a narrator than Matthew, though I can't put my finger on why, precisely. Maybe it's the slightly lighter nature of the books. I'm glad that Magicals Anonymous has so far been better about not having secondary female characters dying than the Matthew Swift ones are, though.
Valor's Trial by Tanya Huff. Damn, she killed everybody. (Well, not everybody, but like: WOW.) And people say I'm a ruthless writer.
A Free Man of Color by Barbara Hambly. Reread; I think I'm going to work my way through the series again, though I'm going to have to pack most of them up and take them to...New Orleans, appropriately. Kicking off my Barbara Hambly reread; I really like her prose.
Feed, Deadline, Blackout, and assorted Newsflesh novellas by Mira Grant (rereads), all of which I read while I was in New Orleans or on the plane. I don't know, I was on the plane scrolling through my Kindle and went, you know what, I think I'm going to reread these heartbreaking books about zombies and codependent siblings and truth and freedom. (These books are amazeballs, by the way.)
Parasite by Mira Grant (reread). I was still in a Newsflesh state of mind and went onto the next Mira Grant book. Parasite doesn't ping my narrative kinks the way Feed does, but most books don't because I have weird narrative kinks.
Mystic and Rider by Sharon Shinn. Not quite sure how I feel about this book yet.
The Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch. Reread. I like the flashback/backstory slightly more than I like the main story, which is frustrating.
What I'm currently reading
Actively reading: Bride of the Rat God by Barbara Hambly (reread), The Truth of Valor by Tanya Huff, Sisters of the Raven by Barbara Hambly (reread), Fever Season by Barbara Hambly (reread), Blood Red by Mercedes Lackey.
In progress but not actually reading: The Wizard Hunters by Martha Wells (reread), The Searchers by Glenn Frankel, Marked by Kit Rocha, Lauren Dane, and Vivian Arend, The Courtiers by Lucy Worsley, Written in My Own Heart's Blood by Diana Gabaldon, Legions of Hell by C.J. Cherryh, The Illustrious Dead: The Terrifying Story of How Typhus Killed Napoleon's Greatest Army by Stephan Talty, Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie, Star Wars: Darth Plagueis by James Luceno, The Hawkwood War by Ankaret Wells.
What I'm reading next
Let's be real, probably more Barbara Hambly. (It's the prose. I can't put my finger on what exactly it is about the prose, but that's it.)