Free-For-All Friday

[geraineon]

Time for free for all Friday, a day for random chit-chat!

Do you want to talk about the other novels you are reading or find a read-along partner? Practice your Chinese? Request for fics? Ask for beta readers? Just talk about your day?

Go right ahead!

Comments

[aurumcalendula]

I finished volume 2 of The Disabled Tyrant's Beloved Pet Fish the other day! Highlight for spoilers! *It's fun seeing Li Yu be the metaphorical monkey wrench in palace intrigue stuff and I'm still amused by Li Yu thinking he has Prince Jing completely fooled w/r/t transforming between fish and human forms while Prince Jing's been sure Li Yu's a fish yao since volume 1.*

I also read some translated Thai GL novels this week. I finished volume 2 of Petrichor (tbh I think I prefer the first volume) and started on Cranium. I feel like the former needed a more thorough proofreader and/or editor. I'm enjoying the rivals-to-lovers setup of the latter so far.

[geraineon]

I continued reading Chu Liuxiang book 2, and he + his friends still deserve to get thrown into the sea sometimes... but he continues to have very strong homerotic tension with all the men.

I also got a little obsessed playing Cult of the Lamb, a game I bought for 50% off from steam sales. And now steam thinks I really, really enjoy Lovecraftian things (just because I played this, and Cultist Simulator, and Darkest Dungeon, and ... okay maybe it has a point).

[douqi]

I finally finished reading In Love with a Substitute, including all the extras. The final (xianxia) world was a huge slog and the ending reveal was very underwhelming after all the build-up. Moving on to some books in English next, and then I'm probably going to read a contemporary baihe by Yu Shuang (I've read one full-length novel by her, and it was satisfyingly melodramatic in a k-drama way so I have hopes for this one).

[ehyde]

I had been saying, ok, when I finish Volume 2 of Smiling Proud Wanderer I'll take a break and read something else, because although I'm enjoying it, I'd been progressing very slowly. But! Almost as soon as I said that it got super exciting again and I am well past the halfway point now. We've also switched translators. I think this second translator isn't quite as good at writing in english, but on the plus side, they are now writing Dongfang Bubai, instead of Dongfang Invincible (haven't come to any of the other names that the first translator translated yet). Really this novel deserves a professional translation...