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What I Just Finished Reading
The Magpie Lord – KJ Charles
Set in the Victorian era but featuring characters who talk about “killing a bottle of wine” and openly use the word “pregnant” to refer to an expectant woman. I like period language even in my pulp historical fare, and the frequent linguistic anachronisms catapulted me right out of the story even though I know it’s unfair to ask that sort of accuracy of late 90s yaoi, which The Magpie Lord basically is: Instalove between the romantic leads, an uke with whom you could substitute a woman with minimal plot impact, over-the-top villains whose dastardly scheme involves incest and guro, all of it in the service of getting the two protagonists into bed. Said payoff hit all the right buttons for me. There’s even an omake-style bonus story whose delightfully humorous post-climax (ahem) developments pretty much ensured I’ll pick up the second volume at some point.
What I Am Currently Reading
The Goblin Emperor – Katherine Addison
Still for reasons.
The House in the Cerulean Sea – TJ Klune
I think an NPR review put this one on my radar. It’s told with the cartoonish, whimsical exaggeration (think Harry Potter) that doesn’t tend to work for me in novel format, but I’m only three chapters in so we shall see how things develop.
The Starless Sea – Erin Morgenstern
I have 170 pages to go, which I should be able to complete by next Wednesday. The novel is definitely holding my attention longer now that the plot has emerged.
おまけのこ – 畠中 恵 (Omake no Ko – Hatakenaka Megumi)
This week’s chapter, Ugoku kage, fills in more of Ichitaro’s childhood. Set when he was five years old, it explains how he became friends with Eikichi while tracking down a kage onna—the “moving shadow” of the title, whom only children can see, and who is rumored to drag them into screen doors and devour them.
What I'm Reading Next
I picked up the Klune, Ivy Pochada’s These Girls, and Seth Dickinson's The Traitor Baru Cormorant, which I'm pretty sure I owned but lost in the great hard drive crash of 2018.
これで以上です。
The Magpie Lord – KJ Charles
Set in the Victorian era but featuring characters who talk about “killing a bottle of wine” and openly use the word “pregnant” to refer to an expectant woman. I like period language even in my pulp historical fare, and the frequent linguistic anachronisms catapulted me right out of the story even though I know it’s unfair to ask that sort of accuracy of late 90s yaoi, which The Magpie Lord basically is: Instalove between the romantic leads, an uke with whom you could substitute a woman with minimal plot impact, over-the-top villains whose dastardly scheme involves incest and guro, all of it in the service of getting the two protagonists into bed. Said payoff hit all the right buttons for me. There’s even an omake-style bonus story whose delightfully humorous post-climax (ahem) developments pretty much ensured I’ll pick up the second volume at some point.
What I Am Currently Reading
The Goblin Emperor – Katherine Addison
Still for reasons.
The House in the Cerulean Sea – TJ Klune
I think an NPR review put this one on my radar. It’s told with the cartoonish, whimsical exaggeration (think Harry Potter) that doesn’t tend to work for me in novel format, but I’m only three chapters in so we shall see how things develop.
The Starless Sea – Erin Morgenstern
I have 170 pages to go, which I should be able to complete by next Wednesday. The novel is definitely holding my attention longer now that the plot has emerged.
おまけのこ – 畠中 恵 (Omake no Ko – Hatakenaka Megumi)
This week’s chapter, Ugoku kage, fills in more of Ichitaro’s childhood. Set when he was five years old, it explains how he became friends with Eikichi while tracking down a kage onna—the “moving shadow” of the title, whom only children can see, and who is rumored to drag them into screen doors and devour them.
What I'm Reading Next
I picked up the Klune, Ivy Pochada’s These Girls, and Seth Dickinson's The Traitor Baru Cormorant, which I'm pretty sure I owned but lost in the great hard drive crash of 2018.
これで以上です。
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