• What are you currently reading?
Between books while finishing thesis draft. Azumanga Daioh at bedtime.
I am NOT reading The Seedbearers by Peter Valentine Timlett, which I had as an Office Shelf Book due to the title and misguidedly decided to attempt on the bus home tonight. On the first page, a 13-year-old girl who has been gang-raped is murdered. On the second, they debate what to do with her body and decide to give it to the black guys to eat. YEAH NO NOT READING THIS. ... I did get curious whether the young girl had been Aryan-pure since the murdering rapists were Toltec (all this happened in Atlantis, obvsly), and skimmed while waiting for the bus -- surprisingly, a later misogynist caricature from the same race is described as having golden-brown skin. So I guess there's that? Not sure I can keep this on my shelf, though. Nasty stuff.
• What did you recently finish reading?
Justina Chen's Return to Me wound up being way too cheerful and "everything is for the best" for me to really buy into it. That divorce was supposed to happen, and now everyone is just fine, all the things that have gone wrong for the past twenty years, including other people's relationships, are now fixed. Maybe it's mean, but I feel like the author was trying to convince herself? Also all of the protagonist's matriline was New Agey psychic, ugh, and part of her self-assertion at the end was that people need to respect her woo-woo.
Caught up on 7 Seeds. OMG YAY (SPOILER) IS BACK! *happy dance* People are escaping badness and being emotionally healed left and right, though Arashi is in for sad emo times. The series is reaching the time when I usually think it's time to wrap things up, but there is no reason to do so in this case. It's not every narrative where someone saves the world with menstrual blood.
Deceiver, in which Bren is slightly unbelievable in his hardassery.
• What do you think you’ll read next?
Gemma Files! I still haven't reread the whole trilogy all together.
I also have a video game lined up for after the thesis draft is sent off, Journey.
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