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sophia_sol) wrote2024-05-03 03:37 pm
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book meme
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booknook as a kind of book meme of questions, so here are my answers!Recently finished reading: Coming Back, by Jessi Zabarsky
A book I want to reread: A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K LeGuin. I read it when I was about 14 years old and didn't properly understand it at the time; all I remember of it is that I thought it was boring. I think I'm much better prepared to appreciate what it's doing now so I'd like to revisit it!
Some published titles from my to be read list: the list is hundreds of books long ahahaha. But some of them include: The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera, The Water Outlaws by SL Huang, and any (all) of the danmei novels by Priest
A book not-yet-published I'm excited about: Lady Eve's Last Con, by Rebecca Fraimow!!! coming out this June! By a great friend who's a great writer. I can't wait.
Related book news I've got my eye on (adaptations etc.): I don't really pay attention to adaptation news, I gave up caring about the hugo awards, and I don't know enough about non-english-language works to be invested in certain works being translated, so I think I'm left without any related news I am invested in!
My all-time favourite book(s): Heaven Official's Blessing by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu, and Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. By which you can tell I love ambitious and enormous books with huge casts of characters that are interested in themes of class dynamics and what it means to be an ethical actor in the world.
My favourite book genre(s): fantasy, historical fiction, scifi, danmei, nonfiction historical travelogues
A book I recommend in my favourite genre(s): To me it's important that I tailor recommendations to the tastes of the person I'm reccing to! No one book is going to land for everyone! Genuinely I don't even know where to start here. I suppose....my most recent five-star review for a book I haven't already mentioned for another question is The Sleeping Soldier, by Aster Glenn Gray, which is m/m time travel historical fiction, and is really excellent. Full review here: https://sophia-sol.dreamwidth.org/446916.html
A book I don't recommend in my favourite genre(s): My most recent negative review is for The Spare Man, by Mary Robinette Kowal, a short scifi novel that was trying to be social commentary and unexamined power fantasy at the same time, a combo that doesn't work well here. Plus I didn't care about any of the characters, the worldbuilding was weak, and the murder mystery wasn't compelling. Full review here: https://sophia-sol.dreamwidth.org/446361.html
A genre I'm interested in trying out: I'm still pretty new in reading danmei and I'm interested in branching out and trying more of it!
Link to my latest book review: https://sophia-sol.dreamwidth.org/459567.html
Link to my reading log: https://sophia-sol.dreamwidth.org/tag/post+type:+book+thoughts+2
Books/genres I'm interested in discussing/chatting about: see my faves listed above. those especially! but also theoretically interested in discussing just about any!
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