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]

Squeezing in one more Jiang Zi Bei novel before posting her author's spotlight post. I'm reading Wait for Me After School (carrd with details: https://wfmas.carrd.co/#homepage)

At chapter 15! It's cute and yes, JZB has a type of character and character dynamics she likes. It's okay. I like too.

[anne]

My current ebook is How to Survive as a Villain! It's so much fun! Next is probably "transmuter," a MDZS fic that my friends are raving about.

Current paper book is still SPL vol 3, which I need to return to the library asap. (Sorry, next person in the queue.) Next paper book is one of my other library books, unless I crack and read Thousand Autumns instead.

[aurumcalendula]

I read more of Dragon Subjugation Incantation (there were four translation updates this week!). I'm still really enjoying it and can't wait to read the rest!

I also finished reading the last volume of the official English translation of Guardian. It has one more extra than I remember from the fantranslation I read - I'm not sure if it's new or not (iirc the timeloop extra was the most recent one?).

[douqi]

I'm halfway through Ning Yuan's 2014 food-themed contemporary novel 食色 (which I'm tentatively translating as Hunger. Lust and really enjoying it! It's both hilarious and sincere and the leads have great banter. Excellent food descriptions too!

橋頭樓上 16

[halfcactus]

Read the first chapter or so of 灯神 The Djinn by 深海巨狗... Definitely planning to continue when my brain settles down. The art and paneling are beautiful! And now that I think about it, I wonder where to find similarly short manhua recs...

Only read one chapter of 橋頭樓上, and I'm officially halfway through and even more confused because wtf is going on in chapter 16???

Notes

The writer being HDMM's assistant actually makes more sense, but also not really because we don't know anything about her... Is she Tang Guo or is she one of the people who knew Tang Guo? Not sure if Tang Guo had any real relationships in the murder-suicide GCs. But she had to have been one of them because of the "vegetarian ghost" thing? Which I thought was cute at the beginning but now really grim. ;___;

I should go back and see which diary entries the "I'm sorry" crowd were reacting to, and which users did so. I should probably also go back and check the comments now that I know more about the QSWXC characters...

Was Zhang Ting was the "success" story? And Zhang ge, HDMM's manager is, what, her older/younger brother? Cousin? I remember her having a similar background to Tang Guo, ie. raised by a single mom + grandparents... I can't do math, help lol

And because I can't do math, I'm having major trouble understanding the timeline for all the real-world incidents. 😂

Miao Miao, who is secretly dying, and Miao Xiaowa, who wants to die... I am so worried for them aaaaaaaaaaa

[duckprintspress]

I am also currently reading How to Survive as a Villain by Yi Yi Yi Yi. I finished the main story on Tuesday, but I haven't read the extras yet. I thought the last few chapters were a little wonky, but aside from that I've enjoyed it. I wish the sex was better, lmao.

I also started Chapter 7 of LOCH, but the translation for this one is kinda wonky so I'm struggling with it.

I'm going out of town tomorrow for a work thing that'll devour my reading time, and I expect to bring Guardian Vol. 3 with me as my casual reading, so that's up next. It's mostly a re-read for me, tho I never read all the extras, and some of the later chapters I've only read as unedited MTL, so reading a real translation is exciting.

[lunarriviera]

absolutely at random, read kaleidoscope of death and wound up loving it. it's not priest-level writing tbh and i will stand by that assertion, but it was nonetheless entertaining as hell and i truly love ruan nanzhu. classes start this week and i'm making course shells/syllabi and prepping, but i'm probably going to pick up po yun anyway, like someone who has spare time or something…