Weekly Wednesday Reading meme
What are you currently reading
Nothing, because I finished the novella I was reading about half an hour ago.
What did you recently finish reading?
I finished Absolute Witch, which I posted on separately.
Chimes and Midnight by Seanan McGuire. The seventh October Daye novel, and certainly a gamechanger. (Enough so that I was actually expecting the A plot to have to carry over into the next book before it was resolved.) This is possibly the only book I have read in which the words "evil pie" were completely accurate and as serious as they were absurd. I'm not sure, but I think (hope) that the next arc of the series will bring the focus to Toby's mother and her mysteries.
-Quentin's real identity wasn't much of a surprise, but it's nice to have that out of the way.
-I hope Toby makes Tybalt model his collection of leather pants for her. Possibly while wearing a blond wig and singing David Bowie songs.
-I did not appreciate that brief bit at the end where it was possible that May was dead for good.
-I did, however, enjoy getting a lot more of Dianda, and her bloodthirstyness.
-Sylvester actually became more paternalistic. It's actually fairly impressive.
-I was really hoping Chelsea was going to join Toby's collection of adorable teenaged sidekicks, but alas. Maybe next book? (I can't help but think that it really will happen at some point, if for no other reason than that they're both changelings and i'm not sure how many other changelings Etienne is actually on speaking terms with. Though there will probably be a long, involved lecture about how Chelsea is to teleport away the second Toby looks like she's about to get in yet another situation that can only result in pools of blood.)
-McGuire continually impresses me with her ability to find new ways to traumatize and/or endange Toby every book.
-Arden is an excellent reluctant princess who just wants to be left alooooooonnnnne now okthanxpleasegoawayIjustwantmybooksnow. I look forward to seeing how she deals with being queen.
Kitty and the Dead Man's Hand by Carrie Vaughn. This one has Kitty going to Vegas and doing a live show, while meeting the Vegas supernatural crowd on the side. I liked the parts about the show and the parts with Kitty's parents a lot, and was generally enjoying it until near the end, where ?Vaughn actually managed to make me feel physically ill.
Kitty gets threatened with public rape-for-entertainment (possibly gang rape) and Ben's reaction is "gosh, honey, almost getting raped didn't turn you on, did it?" (Kitty had previously said she thought the ringleader of it was hot, pre-near rape.)
Have a puke bucket. (No, I don't care whether or not that was his idea of joking, but I don't think he was regardless.)
I think I need to take a break from the books.
The Earl and the Fairy Vol 1 by Mizue Tani and Ayuki. Adaptation of light novels set in Victorian England, and a girl named Lydia who can talk to fairies, and a possibly-fake nobleman named Edgar who abducts her (by way of rescuing her from other, less nice abductors) and then hires her to help him find a fairy artifact. I enjoyed the anime based on the same light novels, and this is very similar, though it doesn't give so much deja vu to make me want to stop reading, though I do find Edgar's "La, I have abducted you but it was at least partly for your own good. Also, look at my angst that makes me more dark and dangerous." more insufferable than I recall finding it in the anime.
Capturing the Silken Thief by Jeannie Lin. Novella set in Tang Dynasty China, about a scholar studying for his exams, and a song girl who thinks he stole a valuable book from her. Very enjoyable, but too short, IMO.
What do you think you'll read next?
Manga, probably a romance novel. Maybe one of the Twelve Kingdoms books that I haven't read yet that I found English translations of online.
Nothing, because I finished the novella I was reading about half an hour ago.
What did you recently finish reading?
I finished Absolute Witch, which I posted on separately.
Chimes and Midnight by Seanan McGuire. The seventh October Daye novel, and certainly a gamechanger. (Enough so that I was actually expecting the A plot to have to carry over into the next book before it was resolved.) This is possibly the only book I have read in which the words "evil pie" were completely accurate and as serious as they were absurd. I'm not sure, but I think (hope) that the next arc of the series will bring the focus to Toby's mother and her mysteries.
-Quentin's real identity wasn't much of a surprise, but it's nice to have that out of the way.
-I hope Toby makes Tybalt model his collection of leather pants for her. Possibly while wearing a blond wig and singing David Bowie songs.
-I did not appreciate that brief bit at the end where it was possible that May was dead for good.
-I did, however, enjoy getting a lot more of Dianda, and her bloodthirstyness.
-Sylvester actually became more paternalistic. It's actually fairly impressive.
-I was really hoping Chelsea was going to join Toby's collection of adorable teenaged sidekicks, but alas. Maybe next book? (I can't help but think that it really will happen at some point, if for no other reason than that they're both changelings and i'm not sure how many other changelings Etienne is actually on speaking terms with. Though there will probably be a long, involved lecture about how Chelsea is to teleport away the second Toby looks like she's about to get in yet another situation that can only result in pools of blood.)
-McGuire continually impresses me with her ability to find new ways to traumatize and/or endange Toby every book.
-Arden is an excellent reluctant princess who just wants to be left alooooooonnnnne now okthanxpleasegoawayIjustwantmybooksnow. I look forward to seeing how she deals with being queen.
Kitty and the Dead Man's Hand by Carrie Vaughn. This one has Kitty going to Vegas and doing a live show, while meeting the Vegas supernatural crowd on the side. I liked the parts about the show and the parts with Kitty's parents a lot, and was generally enjoying it until near the end, where ?Vaughn actually managed to make me feel physically ill.
Kitty gets threatened with public rape-for-entertainment (possibly gang rape) and Ben's reaction is "gosh, honey, almost getting raped didn't turn you on, did it?" (Kitty had previously said she thought the ringleader of it was hot, pre-near rape.)
Have a puke bucket. (No, I don't care whether or not that was his idea of joking, but I don't think he was regardless.)
I think I need to take a break from the books.
The Earl and the Fairy Vol 1 by Mizue Tani and Ayuki. Adaptation of light novels set in Victorian England, and a girl named Lydia who can talk to fairies, and a possibly-fake nobleman named Edgar who abducts her (by way of rescuing her from other, less nice abductors) and then hires her to help him find a fairy artifact. I enjoyed the anime based on the same light novels, and this is very similar, though it doesn't give so much deja vu to make me want to stop reading, though I do find Edgar's "La, I have abducted you but it was at least partly for your own good. Also, look at my angst that makes me more dark and dangerous." more insufferable than I recall finding it in the anime.
Capturing the Silken Thief by Jeannie Lin. Novella set in Tang Dynasty China, about a scholar studying for his exams, and a song girl who thinks he stole a valuable book from her. Very enjoyable, but too short, IMO.
What do you think you'll read next?
Manga, probably a romance novel. Maybe one of the Twelve Kingdoms books that I haven't read yet that I found English translations of online.