Read-in-Progress Wednesday

[geraineon]

This is your weekly read-in-progress post for you to talk about what you're currently reading and reactions and feelings (if any)!

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[geraineon]

I'm still on a trip with my friend so haven't been doing much reading but I have made progress in Tai Sui! A few chapters!

Poor san-ge catches no break from the MC

[anehan]

*crickets chirping*

[duckprintspress]

I've only been reading LOCH, and enjoying it! Chapter 5 is next, which...might be exactly where I was last time I checked in, idk.

[lunarriviera]

Just started Qiang Jin Jiu and WHEW this danmei does NOT pull its punches. The first few chapters are absolutely excoriating, and it perfectly suits my bleak mood right now. I love it; what I do not love is 7S saying there will be 8 volumes so I'm not gonna get to finish it until [looks at wrist]…2030?

[shipperslist]

Currently in book 4 of Mo Du and enjoying how the stakes are rising book by book. Still think this is my favorite priest book.

[aurumcalendula]

Since last Wednesday, I've caught up with the currently translated chapters of Purely by Accident and Dragon Subjugation Incantation and continued my reread of volume 1 of Ballad of Sword and Wine.

[sam_gardener]

I'm half way through chapter 4 of The Legend of the Condor Heroes, almost caught up! Then I'm going to read all the Tai Sui extras. After that I don't know what's next (besides TLotCH).

橋頭樓上 chapters 10-12

[halfcactus]

Read 3 chapters of 橋頭樓上 then got derailed by somewhat cnovel-adjacent things: the novel-based transmigration donghua How Dare You and the knovel Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint which is kind of the opposite of a transmigration novel and likely too long for me to finish. 😂

Thoughts on 橋頭樓上 10-12

The recent diary entries have been, at least, a lot less creepy, and I was so happy to see Tang Guo improve... until the ominous entries of July 10 and 11. 😭 The novel structure has also been changed now that we've reached the end of an arc, which is exciting. Groupchats and quick PoV changes! \o/

At some point (I think it was during the flashback of Tang Guo being drowned by a man and a woman), I wondered how many times Tang Guo has drowned and maybe died, and if the water ghost’s own death eighteen years ago even ties with the plot at all or that entire character really is just a narrative device.

"【黑猫警长】：2分刚刚: ？？？" She's doing her best, I love her

The slew of "Sorry" comments with roses at the end of chapter 10 (webnovel chapter 6) was so unsettling and is still unaddressed.

I always feel so dumb whenever the comments talk about how childish the writing is in the earlier chapters. 😂 But it's always fun when they argue. 😂

I'm really glad we’re finally “reviewing” the text and moving on to the next bits—there was definitely a lot of "clues" I missed, ie. the more "mature" writing style in ch6(?), “媽媽讓我這麼叫她的”, and the emotional/psychological processes. I don't know where we'll go now that Tang Guo has discarded the doll she used to channel her violent impulses to, and that her attachments are so tenuous?

[mekare]

I‘ve finished chapter 5 of Legend of the Condor Heroes today and will make a post soon.

[alterkrmn]

Late, very late, but I am excited because I went back to the gym and discovered I can read while doing cardio on the treadmill (not the stationary bike or the eliptical trainer. I tried...it's haaard) so I resumed my reading of Global Examination. I'm on chapter 18. Still very slow but I am doing it now. Somehow, doing it in the gym helps me not to get distracted with other 20 things around. I'll see how much I can read this week 👀​