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Wednesday Reading Meme
Sep. 29th, 2021 06:05 pmWhat I Just Finished Reading
Still haven't finished any books. *sigh*
What I'm Reading Now
Aside from getting a bit further still into The Bride Test by Helen Hoang (though my library loan of The Heart Principle has expired in the meantime, which arrival had prompted me to finally start the second book, that I had bought in a sale at some point after actually reading the first).
Anyway, that going kind of treacle-like, I checked out The Friend by Sigrid Nunez from my library, because it was featured in a non-romance rec set on the SBTB site recently. That said it was a short "animal-centric" novel and a "story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her dog". I'm more than half-way in, and the dog barely appears, however, and it's all rumination about a now dead writer and ex-university lecturer, his issues with the introduction of sexual harassment policies, and the female narrator somehow feeling warmly to him for no reason that I can see, because he seems to have been insufferable. It's well written, though.
I also read the opening sample of Finding Joy by Adriana Herrera, an m/m romance that was on sale for 0.99€, and I decided it was worth picking up for that, but it didn't hook me enough to continue reading it right away either.
What I'm Reading Next
No idea. Probably Seducing the Sorcerer by Lee Welch, the fantasy m/m romance I mentioned last week, which is now out and I've bought the e-book. I also pre-ordered the next in T. Kingfisher's Saints of Steel series Paladin's Hope, but that will come out only on October 9th, so it's more than a week away yet.
Still haven't finished any books. *sigh*
What I'm Reading Now
Aside from getting a bit further still into The Bride Test by Helen Hoang (though my library loan of The Heart Principle has expired in the meantime, which arrival had prompted me to finally start the second book, that I had bought in a sale at some point after actually reading the first).
Anyway, that going kind of treacle-like, I checked out The Friend by Sigrid Nunez from my library, because it was featured in a non-romance rec set on the SBTB site recently. That said it was a short "animal-centric" novel and a "story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her dog". I'm more than half-way in, and the dog barely appears, however, and it's all rumination about a now dead writer and ex-university lecturer, his issues with the introduction of sexual harassment policies, and the female narrator somehow feeling warmly to him for no reason that I can see, because he seems to have been insufferable. It's well written, though.
I also read the opening sample of Finding Joy by Adriana Herrera, an m/m romance that was on sale for 0.99€, and I decided it was worth picking up for that, but it didn't hook me enough to continue reading it right away either.
What I'm Reading Next
No idea. Probably Seducing the Sorcerer by Lee Welch, the fantasy m/m romance I mentioned last week, which is now out and I've bought the e-book. I also pre-ordered the next in T. Kingfisher's Saints of Steel series Paladin's Hope, but that will come out only on October 9th, so it's more than a week away yet.