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Reading Wednesday
Mar. 1st, 2023 01:07 pmThe last time I did this was uhhh, *checks notes* the middle of January! Life got real garbage-y for a while since then and COVID especially is not conducive to reading very much, but I have read enough things to make a post about it.
Killers of a Certain Age, by Deanna Raybourn - Very fun! A quartet of retiring age lady assassins end up the targets and they have to figure out why. Flashes back between their early careers and the present day. Everyone's very snarky and also extremely competent at their jobs, and I really liked it.
Beowulf, translated by Seamus Heaney - I hadn't read this since my freshman year of college, and it was fun to rediscover it. I remembered the general plot, of course, but I'd forgotten a lot of the detail.
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers - This was very nice. It's a quiet sort of book with very low stakes, about purpose and finding meaning in one's life; the setting is really interesting--a sort of utopian planet where the humans have figured it all out and aren't actively wrecking the place anymore--and the robot character is delightful. Looking forward to reading the next one.
Payback's a Witch, by Lana Harper - This one was fun. The plot feels too complicated to sum up here but three women team up to magically beat the dude who cheated on/broke their hearts in this competition held every fifty years. There's also romance between the MC and one of the other ladies, but it's mostly about the MC dealing with whether she really wants to return to Chicago after this competition or whether she wants to come back to the small magical town and what that means about who she is, etc. This is also the first of a series and I will be checking out the next one.
I also read some Critical Role graphic novels that I don't feel like detailing individually; the one about the Bright Queen was neat and the Vox Machina origins comics are fun, and Yasha's full backstory was neat to learn about.
Killers of a Certain Age, by Deanna Raybourn - Very fun! A quartet of retiring age lady assassins end up the targets and they have to figure out why. Flashes back between their early careers and the present day. Everyone's very snarky and also extremely competent at their jobs, and I really liked it.
Beowulf, translated by Seamus Heaney - I hadn't read this since my freshman year of college, and it was fun to rediscover it. I remembered the general plot, of course, but I'd forgotten a lot of the detail.
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers - This was very nice. It's a quiet sort of book with very low stakes, about purpose and finding meaning in one's life; the setting is really interesting--a sort of utopian planet where the humans have figured it all out and aren't actively wrecking the place anymore--and the robot character is delightful. Looking forward to reading the next one.
Payback's a Witch, by Lana Harper - This one was fun. The plot feels too complicated to sum up here but three women team up to magically beat the dude who cheated on/broke their hearts in this competition held every fifty years. There's also romance between the MC and one of the other ladies, but it's mostly about the MC dealing with whether she really wants to return to Chicago after this competition or whether she wants to come back to the small magical town and what that means about who she is, etc. This is also the first of a series and I will be checking out the next one.
I also read some Critical Role graphic novels that I don't feel like detailing individually; the one about the Bright Queen was neat and the Vox Machina origins comics are fun, and Yasha's full backstory was neat to learn about.
