fred_mouse

At five days of nine of my 'reading on the couch' holiday, I'm making progress.

Finished

1. You brought me the Ocean (Alex Sanchez, Julie Maroh) - graphic novel, coming of age, queer romance, super-hero origin story, 5 stars
2. How to Bee (Bren McDibble) - middle school chapter book, ecological collapse, haves and have nots, significant content warnings apply, joyful protagonist, family is important, 4 stars
3. Filter House (Nisi Shawl) - ebook, writer of colour, evocative, short fiction, collection, actually a reread because that should have been ticked off but I reread the whole thing, 5 stars, seriously I love this whole thing there are no standout stories.

Added to the list - two I was already reading but weren't on my currently reading

1. The Coal Curse (Judith Brett) - quarterly essay borrowed from co-worker I; started previously
2. Locke & Key Master Edition Volume 1 - new. Look I went to the library and I only borrowed one book, and it's a graphic novel. I'm proud of myself
3. Environmental Instrumentation (Leo J. Fritschen, Lloyd W. Gay) - also borrowed from coworker I so that I had something to read on the bus two weeks ago.

(co-worker I is also taking the week off to go away with their partner; they aren't going to be reading either of these, and were happy for me to read them)

Progressed

• Magic for Liars (argh. I'm beginning to realise that it doesn't matter the trappings, I just can't handle the detective noir tropes. With one exception I'm going to have to reread someday)
• City in the middle of the Night (I hate the protagonists but I love the world building; I can do one chapter at a time)
• The modern age (still grumpy about how much this world history is 'colonial history')
• The Pleasant Profession of Robert A. Heinlein (going much faster now that I've reverted to reading the ebook. Currently in the racism chapter)
• The Bear and the Nightingale (argh. coercive Christianity vs paganism --> the old gods cause chaos/disaster)
• A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (very dense reading)

... and having checked through the currently reading list and compared that to the pile of books on the floor that I think I'm currently reading? There are at least two missing. But as I'm back at 39, I'm going to shrug.

... if I hadn't fallen into a fandom on Friday (and then spent rather too much time cursing youtube for refusing to play any episodes of it) I might have got more reading done. Instead, I've read straight through sami's The Same Moon Shines, which is at 449K words and not finished. I finished what there is yesterday, and now I'm chasing anything in the fandom that works for me (I'm... not really in for anything set during the series. I am in for fascinating time travel what-ifs. This may change. Recs are welcome). I may, if have have oomph, try again to watch the first episode tomorrow.