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i did it all for the robins ([personal profile] musesfool) wrote2019-02-13 01:15 pm
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like a mean old son of a bitch

Back at work today, still feeling queasy. I passed up coffee for ginger ale and finally ate a buttered roll a few minutes ago, rather than the salad fixings I brought in on Monday so I could make myself a salad each day. Great idea in theory, and time saving in the morning, but after Monday, I have no desire to look at any of it again. Except maybe the fresh mozzarella. The fresh mozzarella wouldn't hurt me, right? I believe in cheeses.

Anyway, it's time for What I'm Reading Wednesday here at chez P.

What I've just finished
The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden, which I found a strong and satisfying ending for the trilogy, though it is really go-go-go pacing wise.

What I'm reading now
Strange Practice by Vivian Shaw, the first in the Greta Helsing series. Greta is a doctor for supernatural creatures, and there is a serial killer on the loose. I was surprised it was set in the modern day, but it is. I also guess I'm not that compelled to read it (I am not very keen on vampires) because I put it aside for some very long - and complete! - Batfamily fic and when I was done with that, I moved on to some AtLA fic (also novel-length and complete!), but now I'm back!

What I'm reading next
I feel like I just downloaded a bunch of stuff, but who knows? I did find out yesterday - thanks to [personal profile] bell for the tip! - that the first novel in the Ronan Lynch trilogy, Call Down the Hawk, is coming out in November. ♥RONAN♥ (I'm less sanguine about Declan but whatever. Hopefully Blue and the ladies of 300 Fox Way will appear occasionally.)

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grammarwoman: A stack of cheese cubes (Cheese cubes)

[personal profile] grammarwoman 2019-02-13 09:41 pm (UTC)(link)
The fresh mozzarella wouldn't hurt me, right? I believe in cheeses.

I see that, and immediately have in my head "What a friend we have in cheeses." :D
musesfool: heart drawn in the sand (heart)

[personal profile] musesfool 2019-02-13 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Hee!
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[personal profile] lilacsigil 2019-02-13 10:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Strange Practice is fun, but it has some very clunky First Novel stuff going on, especially in the first third. Once the plot really gets going it improves a lot.
musesfool: Bobbie Draper & Chrisjen Avasarala from the Expanse (when the floods roll back)

[personal profile] musesfool 2019-02-14 03:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, it is definitely very clunky to start and thus I had no trouble putting it down and picking it back up again a week later, but things are motoring along nicely now.
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[personal profile] cupiscent 2019-02-13 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
I am so excited that I'm mildly trepidatious about the Ronan books. I don't want to build them up so much that I am inevitably disappointed, and yet RONAN BOOKS. (But yes, I do hope there are some Fox Way appearances, and I feel like Blue is a great foil for him.)
musesfool: heart drawn in the sand (heart)

[personal profile] musesfool 2019-02-14 04:02 pm (UTC)(link)
ME TOO. I want so badly for it to be good!

I feel like Blue is a great foil for him.

They're my two favorites so I really hope she does appear. As Gansey says, they're made of the same impossible stuff.
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