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)!

For spoilers:

<details><summary>insert summary</summary>Your spoilers goes here</details>

<b>Highlight for spoilers!*</b><span style="background-color: #FFFFFF; color: #FFFFFF">Your spoilers goes here.</span>*

Comments

[duckprintspress]

I finished Sha Po Lang!!! I really liked it, tho not quite in the "damn well now I'm feral about these characters" way. Some people had mentioned not loving the extras but I didn't mind them much, though I do wish we'd gotten more of the immediate aftermath of the main story. oh well, that's what fanfiction is for.

Then, yesterday, I started The Missing Piece by Kun Yi Wei Lou...and kinda sorta accidentally mainlined almost the entire main story, hardly putting it down. It wasn't actually that it was that *good* so much as the pacing was quick and more answers always felt just a few pages away (and usually were). It's got some fucked up weird dark stuff going on, and a lot of porn, but I am enjoying it and the endgame is surprisingly fluffy (even if it did jumpscare me with kidfic. why. stop giving my blorbos children. I have children already. I need a break. I am begging.) The translation is both better and worse than the other Via Lactea titles I've read; overall it's cleaner but the errors that did get through seem especially egregious, like, some really ridiculous typos, extra words. Still, it's about what I expect from them and obviously hasn't been enough to get me to stop reading their books so *shrug*.

My next read is not a C-Novel, though it is by R. F. Kuang lol (Babel); after that I'll be reading the new Rosmei translation of vol. 1 of Global Examination (I've read the fantranslation and the manhua).

[geraineon]

Glad you liked SPL!

Via Lactea's quality overall sounds kinda shoddy... I wish they could have taken more care to fix at least all the glaring errors.

[duckprintspress]

yeah... I mean, it could be a lot worse, and I definitely read worse in the early days of manga being translated into English, but nonetheless I do judge when there's more than one error that could have been solved just by running spell-check.