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geraineon ([personal profile] geraineon) wrote in [community profile] cnovels2025-05-28 09:52 am

Read-in-Progress Wednesday

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:

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[personal profile] larryhammer 2025-05-28 05:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Started I Am Average and Unremarkable by Yue Xia Die Ying (“Butterfly Shadow Beneath the Moon”), author of such historical romances as Eight Treasures Trousseau and xianxia comedies as Ascending, Do Not Disturb. This is one of the latter -- if you like Ascending, this has the same sense of humor.

It starts out with Our Heroine, a young yao* passing for human in a world where yao are treated as demonic, entering a small cultivation sect without the resources to screen for such non-humans, but that turns out to be just as, um, let us call it trickery-oriented as she is. Am 25 chapters in, about a fifth of the way, and bounding along. Fun fun.

* Specifically, a chive spirit lol.
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[personal profile] larryhammer 2025-06-04 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Sounds like a possible Friday Discussion topic.