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]

I am still neck deep in Love and Deepspace, which half counts... Probably going to replay the main story, now with added knowledge of lore, because there is some timeline shenanigans going on here.

Additionally, I read the article douqi shared regarding incest in danmei (see pinned resource post! it's been uploaded into the shared drive). If people are interested, we can also do journal article discussions on here? idk.

[forestofglory]

A while ago a friend was posting about Mongols a lot so I started Commodity and Exchange in the Mongol Empire: A Cultural History of Islamic Textiles by Thomas T. Allsen. I really should get back to that, it's interesting and not very long

[ehyde]

Taking a break from cnovels this week, I'm finally reading This is How You Lose the Time War which is lovely, if not quiiiite living up to last year's twitter hype so far (but I'm less than halfway through).

[larryhammer]

I've been too distracted by adulting to continue, but this weekend I got a dozen chapters into Transmigrator Meets Reincarnator, which has been fun so far.

[dayadhvam_triad]

I came across this journal article, a comparative review of 3K Workers and 穿进赛博游戏后干掉BOSS成功上位 (After Transmigrating into the Cyber Game, I Defeated the Boss and Successfully Rose to the Top @ novelupdates), which discusses the evolution in depiction of female characters' moral norms within a yanqing context from Qiong Yao to Legend of Zhen Huan etc. and how these two novels, while nominally yanqing, have protags reconstructing moral norms within narratives that are essentially divorced from romance. It doesn't address baihe at all, and I can't say I agree with everything the author's saying (I haven't read that widely in the relevant genres), but it's interesting food for thought!

Read some stories that ranged from "meh ok forgettable" to "hilarious black comedy BUT with a glaring issue that totally ruined the 2nd half" /SIGH; I've also been reading bits and pieces of 世说新语/A New Account of Tales of the World in the original CN vs. EN tl... for ficcing purposes XD

[liliacs]

Still reading and enjoying To Embers We Return! I've reached most of the important characters by now, all of whom seem fun so far.

[duckprintspress]

No c-novels for me this week... and considering my mom just bought me a bunch of the English translation of Solo Leveling, probably not for several weeks to come lmao.

[lessonsinescapology]

I keep trying to read BG novels but fail to find one that I really like. Why are they so full of melodrama and bad tropes? *sighs*