Reading/Writing Wednesday 5.22.19
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breathedoutQuick drive-by entry to note that:
(a) I finally (finally!!) finished Katrina Carrasco's The Best Bad Things, which continued to be intensely twisty and sexy and rife with gender-fuckery and just all around a delightful good time. Also I would think a pretty quick read for someone who could sit down and focus on it instead of haring off to finish other things by book group deadline or before a library return date loomed.
(b) As a result, I'm down to five in-progress books, which is almost kinda-sorta manageable?? Three would be better, but I'll take five.
(c) Next up I'd love to finish Amber Dawn's Sodom Road Exit, which I'm still very much enjoying although I didn't get much time to read it last week, before picking up Nina Revoyr's A Student of History (of whichfiachairecht and I were vaguely planning on coordinating our reading) and Larissa Lai's When Fox is a Thousand (which is the next Queer Book Group pick).
(d) I also managed to read a fanfic which I thought was 10k words but was actually 70k words, without realizing (SOMEHOW) that it didn't just seem long; it actually was long. I'm blaming my lack of realization 90% on exhausted, anxiety-fueled insomnia, and 10% on the fact that the premise of the fic really only called for 10k (if that), so stretching it out to 70k was a bit of a painful exercise. However, the decision to continue reading was 100% on me. I palate-cleansed with a few old favorites, so it's all good.
(d) I did not end up going to the queer theory book group, not only because I only got a few pages into the book but because I had a surprise extra day of jury duty last week. Between the lengthy commute to the courthouse and my scattered attempts to put out work fires before & after jury selection, it totally threw off my whole schedule, already in chaos because of the new puppy. HOWEVER:
(d) I got less reading time than expected last weekend, but in compensation I came out of it with a complete revised draft of my novel outline, now with two (2) POV characters instead of one, and a whole home-front thread involving a smuggling investigation and a conflicted f/f affair. So that's much more scandalous than my original outline! I dig it.pennypaperbrain, I am now ready to actually write you that email about the Petrograd section, which I don't think I'll be cutting after all. \o/
Fare forward, travelers.
(a) I finally (finally!!) finished Katrina Carrasco's The Best Bad Things, which continued to be intensely twisty and sexy and rife with gender-fuckery and just all around a delightful good time. Also I would think a pretty quick read for someone who could sit down and focus on it instead of haring off to finish other things by book group deadline or before a library return date loomed.
(b) As a result, I'm down to five in-progress books, which is almost kinda-sorta manageable?? Three would be better, but I'll take five.
(c) Next up I'd love to finish Amber Dawn's Sodom Road Exit, which I'm still very much enjoying although I didn't get much time to read it last week, before picking up Nina Revoyr's A Student of History (of which
fiachairecht and I were vaguely planning on coordinating our reading) and Larissa Lai's When Fox is a Thousand (which is the next Queer Book Group pick). (d) I also managed to read a fanfic which I thought was 10k words but was actually 70k words, without realizing (SOMEHOW) that it didn't just seem long; it actually was long. I'm blaming my lack of realization 90% on exhausted, anxiety-fueled insomnia, and 10% on the fact that the premise of the fic really only called for 10k (if that), so stretching it out to 70k was a bit of a painful exercise. However, the decision to continue reading was 100% on me. I palate-cleansed with a few old favorites, so it's all good.
(d) I did not end up going to the queer theory book group, not only because I only got a few pages into the book but because I had a surprise extra day of jury duty last week. Between the lengthy commute to the courthouse and my scattered attempts to put out work fires before & after jury selection, it totally threw off my whole schedule, already in chaos because of the new puppy. HOWEVER:
(d) I got less reading time than expected last weekend, but in compensation I came out of it with a complete revised draft of my novel outline, now with two (2) POV characters instead of one, and a whole home-front thread involving a smuggling investigation and a conflicted f/f affair. So that's much more scandalous than my original outline! I dig it.
pennypaperbrain, I am now ready to actually write you that email about the Petrograd section, which I don't think I'll be cutting after all. \o/Fare forward, travelers.
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Date: 2019-05-22 06:55 pm (UTC)I think we've all read that fic at some point.
Yay novel outline! Yay smuggling investigations!
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Date: 2019-05-22 11:11 pm (UTC)And yes, ahahahhaa, it is kind of a painfully familiar part of the fic-reading experience. :-/
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Date: 2019-05-22 10:12 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2019-05-23 01:58 am (UTC)I finished the Carrasco a few weeks ago, and I think it was a Not My Thing book, but boy, I loved that look at a piece of West Coast history I had literally no idea about. So refreshing!
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Date: 2019-05-23 06:10 pm (UTC)Sorry to hear that the Carrasco wasn't your thing, but yes I (unsurprisingly) enjoyed the historical aspect as well. Especially since Port Townsend is a town I've hung out in quite a bit.
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Date: 2019-05-23 07:59 am (UTC)no subject
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