August through November Reading List

[unicornduke]

For some reason I thought I had made a post for September but apparently not. I wouldn't hold my DNF books against them during this time, I was very tired and not feeling books that might have normally been decent, so probably most of them are perfectly good reads. I re-read a lot of books and fanfiction during this time including the entirety of the HOTE Ao3 tag, twice at least. Then I started on re-reading the Goblin Emperor Ao3 fic. Then I started going back through Murderbot fic. So you get the gist. New books had to be incredibly good for me to finish them. 

Read

•  Bad Company by Megan Greenwell - a book about private equity. I didn't technically finish this book but I got the gist. private equity is so fucked up and shouldn't exist. library e-book
• At the Feet of the Sun by Victoria Goddard - this was the first time I read this book, I re-read it about a month ago again. physical book I bought
• Lakelore by Anna-Marie McLemore - decent little book, really liked it. library audiobook
• Hemlock and Silver by T Kingfisher - hey what the fuck. it was good. but what the fuck. I wasn't at all bothered by the demon horse in the last fairytale retelling but the leggy guys are fucked up in this. you should read it. library ebook
• Queen Demon by Martha Wells - not as tightly timelined as Witch King but definitely got me in the feels more. physical book I pre-ordered
• Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz - cute little scifi book, just chill. library ebook
• Portrait of the Wide Seas Islander by Victoria Goddard - little novella in the HOTE series, very good, enjoyed it. physical book I bought. also re-read
• Petty Treasons by Victoria Goddard - little novella in HOTE series, very good, deeply in the feels about it. physical book I bought. also re-read
• The Return of Fitzroy Angursell by Victoria Goddard - little novella in the HOTE series, fun and funny and in the feels about it again. physical book I bought. also re-read
• Those Who Hold the Fire by Victoria Goddard - little novella in the HOTE series, very good. physical book I bought. 

Re-read

• Network Effect by Martha Wells - library audiobook. the narrator is excellent for this series and I love murderbot so much
• Witch King by Martha Wells - library audiobook - I finally learned how many of the characters names were actually pronounced
• Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells - library audiobook
• System Collapse by Martha Wells - library audiobook, clearly I was on a roll
• Hands of the Emperor by Victora Goddard

DNF

• When the Tides Held the Moon by Venessa Vida Kelley - not sure why I wasn't into it, but felt decently YA in a way that was irritating me even though I think the protags were supposed to be in their twenties maybe. I dunno, this was back in August. Library audiobook
• Dark Moon, Shallow Sea by David R Slayton - no idea what I didn't like about it, probably just wasn't feeling it. library e-book
• War Girls by Tochi Onyebuchi - I might try this one again later. library e-book
• The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami - not feeling it, library audiobook
• Apprentice to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer- I remember the first book being decent and funny, found the first chapter of this extremely irritating due to love-sick POV character. library audiobook
• Lies We Sing to the Sea by Sarah Underwood - decent story, I could see where the romance was going and I didn't like it. library audiobook
• Motheater by Linda H Codega - really really liked this one's story and got through 2/3 of it, but the romance was annoying me, will probably go back and finish it. library ebook

Comments

[reedrover]

I have to say, you sound like such a guy when you write like this. Which makes me laugh.

Hemlock and Silver by T Kingfisher - hey what the fuck. it was good. but what the fuck. I wasn't at all bothered by the demon horse in the last fairytale retelling but the leggy guys are fucked up in this. you should read it.

Wow, this smells so weird! Here, smell it!

… Do you follow much Kingfisher/Vernon social media? She posts a lot of her beta readers and editor commentary. “It’s a light romance with some major body horror.” “It’s a sweet fantasy novel that has multiple dead bodies and a headless monster…”

[unicornduke]

Extremely good book that is excellent but also! the leggy guys! I do follow Ursula on bluesky but I don't know that I check it enough to keep track of stuff. For a while, I just went and caught up on her feed only since she was busy with her move and I was also busy. She's funny!