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 travelling... And have a little too drained every day to be reading (I haven't even been playing much LaDS). Flying back today. will catch up on all the reply backlog later today or tomorrow!

[larryhammer]

I'm in the final stretch of Transmigrator Meets Reincarnator, less than 20 chapters to go, but I likely won't get any time to read tonight. :(

ETA: Did finish! Man, that was a rushed denouement -- like a page of summary of what happened in the next couple years after the climax. Also, read the first chapter of This Is Ridiculous (I'll have to dig up the author name), in which a transmigrator ends up in a transmigration novel, scheming against not just the novel's transmigrator MC but another transmigrator at her own level, plus there may be more.

[forestofglory]

I'm reading bits and pieces of Sarah Allen's Shifting Stories (Non-fiction about tang dynasty stories) for my research project and its so good, its kinda making me want to reread the whole thing.

My fiction reading brain seems to have wandered off again without me actually attempting to read any cnovels

[douqi]

I'm halfway through baihe space fantasy In the Starsriver which is pleasant although vibing pretty YA (the prose is better than a lot of contemporary standard romantasy though).

[llonkrebboj]

My brain kinda cycled through the to-do list right back to shijing xD so I'm reading 诗经讲评之风人深致 (Japan trip blog post when!!!!? maybe in a couple of months xD RIP)

I also found two family centered WIP stories on lofter, 放手 | Letting Go by 霄褕 and 重生后 | Second Life Begins by 精神堪忧人士. I am enjoying both authors' writing style and voices!

Letting Go is of the real/fake shaoye genre of family drama, but a variant of it where both sides are shaoyes xD One is a outgoing and extroverted ray of sunshine, the other is a car racing, alcohol drinking bad boy with a little gang of his own 2nd gen rich kid friends who's great at pretending to be a good kid... at least on the outside! Our MC is bipolar, is touch averse, has some mysterious past trauma and also keeps falling sick... sickliness rating only 1.1 but soooooo delicious.

In the meantime, my carnivorous mushroom reporter bb of Contaminant Masquerade Project grows ever closer to being discovered as the mushroom S grade Contaminant that he is, and I am HERE for it 👀 His ever hungry mushroom army is the cutest!!!!

[aurumcalendula]

Mostly catching up on Seeking Immortality in Vain, Dragon Subjugation Incantation and To Embers We Return's translation updates (I'm enjoying both of them a lot). I'm planning on making more progress on The White Haired [Bride/Witch/Demoness] now that I've finished the nonfiction book I was reading.

[duckprintspress]

I finished my read of Chinese manhua vol. 1 of Tian Guan Ci Fu. Still love it. No news there.

Also am still sick, which means my cope for new books is still low, which is why I've ended up reading the last volume of The Disabled Tyrant's Beloved Pet Fish. The first quarter hasn't been THAT bad, but now the political situation and a major character thing has been resolved and ngl, I'm not anticipating getting much enjoyment out of the rest of it, as it looks to focus very domestic and on the kid stuff I hate. I really think I'd be dnfing if this wasn't the last volume but as it is, I can stick it out.

The final volume of Yuwu/Remnants of Filth by Meatbun also came out this week, which means I now have the whole book official translation, so that'll be high on my TBR.

[silverblade219]

Almost done with The Frozen Player Returns, which is a Korean tower climbing webnovel that is very transparent about its murim/wuxia (and maybe xianxia? not sure if there is a knovel equivalent to that) influences, even before they got to the cyberpunk murim floor.

It took me a while to get into it, but then I realized that for the first arc at least, the main character is like that particular type of video game player who prioritizes all the side quests until accidentally triggering a main quest, and then quietly goes back to completing side quests. [My friend comment on this after telling her this insight: "oh, so it is like the way you played Dragon Age right?"]

The ending arc seems like it will be rushed, but still really enjoying the novel.