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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[larryhammer]

Not a c-novel, but adjacent: I'm rereading Sherwood Smith's The Phoenix Feather, a four-volume wuxia-inspired story that engages with the genre (and with historical c-dramas) at a deeper level than ye typical tropes. I read this as each volume first came out, but am now bounding straight through in preparation for reading the sequel and the recent prequel.

Highly enjoyable. Parts of it chime interestingly with the author's earlier Inda (also four volumes) but it's entirely its own story -- not to mention clearly wuxia.

[ehyde]

Oh, cool! My high school friend group was very into the Crown Duel/Court Duel duet, ages ago, but I haven't read anything else by Sherwood Smith yet. I do know she's written Nirvana in Fire fanfic though!

[larryhammer]

Crown/Court Duel is great. It's a sidestory of a much larger series that she's been working on pretty much all her career, including several trad-pub volumes, that she only recently wrapped up. She's also written some faboo Jane Austen fic. And is on DW as sartorias -- I got recs for practice texts for learning Mandarin from her.

But we digress from the comm's topic ... but um, yes, some excellent Nirvana in Fire fic.

[geraineon]

Ah, I haven't read anything by Sherwood Smith. I do like a good wuxia/wuxia-inspired story!