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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[aurumcalendula]

I've managed to read a bunch of baihe translations lately!

The other day I read the short story Jianghu by L Si X Xi Y and the novella Who Moved My Ashes by Si Jing Qu. I really enjoyed both of them!

Dragon Subjugation Incantation by Shi Wei Yue Shang continues to be so good imho! As of chapter 67 Highlight for spoilers! *Luo Qingci is still being a bit slow on the uptake re: Ruan Li's feelings towards her, despite the system basically spelling it out. I'm really enjoying the action scenes and can't wait to see Ruan Li face the ancient dragon (I really like how the action stuff is written/translated).*

I've started reading Pale Mirror's translation of Reading the Remnants by Qi Xiao Huang Shu (I'm currently on chapter 24). I'm really enjoying the adventures so far and I particularly like Li Shiyi  and  A Yin! Highlight for spoilers! *I'm a bit spoiled on an endgame pairing (Li Shiyi/Song Shijiu), and am curious how the romance will strike me as it develops.*

I've also started rereading JWQS and it's neat to pick up on some stuff I missed the first time around. Highlight for spoilers! *Like, I didn't pay much attention on my first read to the stuff about the emperor prior to Nangong Rang in chapter 2, but in retrospect it definitely impacts a lot of things.*

[alterkrmn]

I finished chapter 150 of Global Examination last night. I feel I can finish it before the year ends!

[larryhammer]

I've read another few chapters Assassin Farmer, which hasn't yet lost me but also hasn't pulled me back in again, or at any rate didn't have the strength to keep me from getting distracted by an RPG and then Kipling.

[douqi]

I'm nearly done reading Delany's Nova (which I've enjoyed, despite/perhaps because of the usual Delany-isms, including all action pausing just so the narrator's expy can deliver a lecture on history, literature and philosophy). Need to write up my review of In Love with a Substitute next, and then I can get stuck in with Yu Shuang's contemporary romance.

[gekidasa]

Still slowly rereading Fourteenth of Chenghua and taking notes. SuiTang have moved in together, and Sui Zhou has told his family to think of Tang fan as family now ❤️

[ehyde]

Welp, it's period-typical transphobia o'clock in The Smiling, Proud Wanderer (actually I shouldn't say that, I don't actually know what's period-typical). Dongfang Bubai is fine! And Linghu Chong's reaction to them has me going hey, wait, you're supposed to be a good guy aren't you, please stop. Sigh.

(This is in chapter 31 for anyone else who might be reading. Douqi warned me in an earlier post and I appreciated the warning).

[duckprintspress]

I did end up starting The Husky and His White Cat Shizun vol. 7 (reread). The knives start immediately. I am not ready. I'm glad I've got a fluffy read after, I think knives then fluff was the right call, reading-order wise.

I also used birthday money to buy 17 (!!!) books from Via Lactea. I'll be getting Lip and Sword (3 vols) by Jin Shisi Chai, Dawning (3 volumes) by Ice, Soul Vibration (3 volumes) by Dr. Solo, To Rule in a Turbulent World vols 1 and 2 by Fei Tian Ye Xiang (writing as Gu Xue Rou), and I preordered I Can't and I Won't (3 vols) by Yan Gui Kang and Painting Against the Natural Grain (3 vols) by Qing Lv. Cheers to a favorable Canadian Dollar to US Dollar exchange rate, lmao.

Guess that's all my reading for 2025 planned, lmao.