Reading Wednesday on Friday
• What are you currently reading?
Lifelode by Jo Walton, who was one of the Guests of Honor at WisCon this year. I've previously read Farthing and Among Others by her.
This book is about a poly family living in a fantasy world where magic is used for every-day domestic tasks.
I could read about Taveth cooking & keeping house forever, I think. Maintaining the household is Taveth's "lifelode," which seems to mean both a life vocation as well as a trajectory.
I sometimes feel uncomfortable with the idea of "true vocation" or etc., likely because I either haven't figured out what mine is yet, or because I don't have one. Can't people just have jobs without being destined to have them, or without being 100% compatible with them?
I do appreciate that keeping house is valued just as much as being a farmer/being a priest/etc.
I like this book very much so far. It seems to be acquiring a plot, and I'm not sure I like that or not.
I hadn't intended to start reading My Chemical Romance fic along w/Fall Out Boy fic, but
liseuse sent me a few amazing recs before WisCon.
I've started reading I Have Been All Things Unholy, in which Frank Iero seems to have acquired stigmata via tattoo, and Gerard Way is a priest who meets up with him. WILL GERARD BE ABLE TO CURE FRANK WITH HIS HEALING TOUCH?! I will have to keep reading ^_^ Seriously, I like this fic a lot.
• What did you recently finish reading?
Not much. I skimmed through this year's edition of the WisCon Chronicles as edited by JoSelle Vanderhooft, Shattering Ableist Narratives, spending most of my time with the segments involving
kalmn,
jesse_the_k, &
sasha_feather.
The comments on this post over in
anime_manga, where we're talking about which series look good in the upcoming summer season.
Various WisCon panel write-ups as they appear on Dreamwidth & LiveJournal.
• What do you think you’ll read next?
More Lifelode. My brain seems to be able to tolerate books again, for now at least!
For book club we were reading Cold Magic, which I've read within the last year but may reread to be a better conversationalist.
More fic, now that I'll actually be spending some time at home again.
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Lifelode by Jo Walton, who was one of the Guests of Honor at WisCon this year. I've previously read Farthing and Among Others by her.
This book is about a poly family living in a fantasy world where magic is used for every-day domestic tasks.
I could read about Taveth cooking & keeping house forever, I think. Maintaining the household is Taveth's "lifelode," which seems to mean both a life vocation as well as a trajectory.
I sometimes feel uncomfortable with the idea of "true vocation" or etc., likely because I either haven't figured out what mine is yet, or because I don't have one. Can't people just have jobs without being destined to have them, or without being 100% compatible with them?
I do appreciate that keeping house is valued just as much as being a farmer/being a priest/etc.
I like this book very much so far. It seems to be acquiring a plot, and I'm not sure I like that or not.
I hadn't intended to start reading My Chemical Romance fic along w/Fall Out Boy fic, but
liseuse sent me a few amazing recs before WisCon.
I've started reading I Have Been All Things Unholy, in which Frank Iero seems to have acquired stigmata via tattoo, and Gerard Way is a priest who meets up with him. WILL GERARD BE ABLE TO CURE FRANK WITH HIS HEALING TOUCH?! I will have to keep reading ^_^ Seriously, I like this fic a lot.
• What did you recently finish reading?
Not much. I skimmed through this year's edition of the WisCon Chronicles as edited by JoSelle Vanderhooft, Shattering Ableist Narratives, spending most of my time with the segments involving
kalmn,
jesse_the_k, &
sasha_feather.
The comments on this post over in
anime_manga, where we're talking about which series look good in the upcoming summer season.
Various WisCon panel write-ups as they appear on Dreamwidth & LiveJournal.
• What do you think you’ll read next?
More Lifelode. My brain seems to be able to tolerate books again, for now at least!
For book club we were reading Cold Magic, which I've read within the last year but may reread to be a better conversationalist.
More fic, now that I'll actually be spending some time at home again.
This entry was originally posted on Dreamwidth. You can comment here or there.
There are <
> comments on this post at Dreamwidth.