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kingstoken) wrote2024-10-01 07:28 pm
kingstoken) wrote2024-10-01 07:28 pm
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Third Quarter reading Wrap-Up
Still making progress on my book bingo card, but I'm not as far along as I would like. Overall, I didn't read as much I was expecting to the past three months. I had a couple of DNFs in a row that I struggled with and I think threw me into a bit of a reading slump. During my last reading wrap-up I mentioned I was reading Red, White and Royal Blue and it wasn't working for me, I really wanted to like this because it is so popular, but it just didn't work for me and I DNFed it. Maybe I'll give the movie a try some time instead. Then I read the It Girl by Ruth Ware, I got about half way through and gave up. For thriller it was so boring, I kept waiting for something to happen, but nothing was happening! Like I know you need some build up, but come on! Anyways, here are the books I actually finished:
Lore Olympus: Vol 2 by Rachel Smythe - I found this one a disappointment after liking the first volume, and I don't think I will be continuing the series, because it has a trope I really hate in fiction, when the one person knows they're in love with someone, but they start a relationship with someone else instead, its just ugh.
Doctor Who: Missy #1 and #2 by Jody Houser - I enjoyed these two Missy comics, where she pretends to be the Doctor and goes back in time to rescue her former self from prison. There are only two more in the series, so I have to get around to reading them soon.
Doctor Who: The Missy Chronicles by various authors - this was a short story collection about Missy and I really enjoyed it. Some of the stories were better than others. My two favourites were: one which is told through emails and messages between Nardole and the Doctor, it was very funny; the other was Missy being rejected from their Men's private club because they are now a woman, so she slowing seeks revenge by killing them all, one shouldn't love reading about all her murders, but I did. Also there was a story where Missy unknowingly meets Thirteen! Its only for a moment, and it does turn out to be important to the conclusion of the story, but I really wish it had lasted longer.
Dance 10 Vol 1 and 2 by Satou Inoue - this series is strangely compelling to me, but also so frustrating to me, like these two ball dancing idiots are french kissing and grinding their crotches together, but they're still both like "this can't mean anything, because I'm not gay", like my dude you had your tongue down the other guy's throat. Plus, they both get angry if anyone even intimates that they might be gay, and when they want to insult each other they will say that the other one is "acting like a woman" which I don't like. However, all the frustrations aside, I still want to know if they'll ever get their shit together enough to win the big dance competition and fall in love.
And that's it. I'm currently in the middle of the reading the non-fiction book The Wager. It's interesting, but not a light, easy read, so I'm reading it in small chunks. Also, if you ever thought you wanted to live during the Age of Sail, you did not! The section about a scurvy epidemic on the ship was enough to turn my stomach.
Lore Olympus: Vol 2 by Rachel Smythe - I found this one a disappointment after liking the first volume, and I don't think I will be continuing the series, because it has a trope I really hate in fiction, when the one person knows they're in love with someone, but they start a relationship with someone else instead, its just ugh.
Doctor Who: Missy #1 and #2 by Jody Houser - I enjoyed these two Missy comics, where she pretends to be the Doctor and goes back in time to rescue her former self from prison. There are only two more in the series, so I have to get around to reading them soon.
Doctor Who: The Missy Chronicles by various authors - this was a short story collection about Missy and I really enjoyed it. Some of the stories were better than others. My two favourites were: one which is told through emails and messages between Nardole and the Doctor, it was very funny; the other was Missy being rejected from their Men's private club because they are now a woman, so she slowing seeks revenge by killing them all, one shouldn't love reading about all her murders, but I did. Also there was a story where Missy unknowingly meets Thirteen! Its only for a moment, and it does turn out to be important to the conclusion of the story, but I really wish it had lasted longer.
Dance 10 Vol 1 and 2 by Satou Inoue - this series is strangely compelling to me, but also so frustrating to me, like these two ball dancing idiots are french kissing and grinding their crotches together, but they're still both like "this can't mean anything, because I'm not gay", like my dude you had your tongue down the other guy's throat. Plus, they both get angry if anyone even intimates that they might be gay, and when they want to insult each other they will say that the other one is "acting like a woman" which I don't like. However, all the frustrations aside, I still want to know if they'll ever get their shit together enough to win the big dance competition and fall in love.
And that's it. I'm currently in the middle of the reading the non-fiction book The Wager. It's interesting, but not a light, easy read, so I'm reading it in small chunks. Also, if you ever thought you wanted to live during the Age of Sail, you did not! The section about a scurvy epidemic on the ship was enough to turn my stomach.
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