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

[larryhammer]

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.

[douqi]

Starting a 'realist' baihe novel, The Empty Ship by Niu Er Er. The main character is a very ordinary woman, 27 years old, deeply unambitious and working as a junior teacher in a preschool, quite different from my usual.

[anne]

I read Cheng He Ti Tong in about three days. It was really fun and I'm now excited for the drama, except I'm quite worried about what they'll do to Bei-momo. If they turn her into a joke I'm going to fly over there and wreak havoc.

I tried If I Could Mail You A Book, but discovered that it requires more attention than I currently have. So I'm rereading Copper Coins while I wait for my brain to regenerate. I'm kinda mad, but otoh I want to enjoy my first time through If I Could.

[shipperslist]

Is Shelley Parker-Chan's He Who Drowned the World a c-novel? If yes, that's what I'm reading now. I'm also slowly getting through Catching CQL, although it's been on the back burner a bit because I'm swamped in library books...

[silverblade219]

The licenses for Golden Terrace and Little Mushroom have been rescued by sevenseas! Golden Terrace will finally have ebook and Little Mushroom is getting a special edition!

[liliacs]

I'm currently reading No. 1 Pretty Boy of the Immortal Path by Shisi! A novel about an MC who transmigrates into the past and takes way too long to realize he's engaged to the princess. He still hasn't realized, despite the princess's obvious insinuations, that the princess is a guy, or that the princess thinks he's a girl crossdressing as a guy.

It's a very cute and funny novel. The MC has a quiet, passive personality, but his inner monologue is lively and fun to read. It's more slice of life than my preference, but I know it's gonna turn more serious and angsty later on so I'm looking forward to that.

[aurumcalendula]

I just caught up on chapter 81 of Dragon Subjugation Incantation (it's neat seeing Luo Qingci interacting in that persona with Ruan Li after being Chi Qing for so long) and I'm currently in the middle of volume 4 of QJJ! I might start The New Story of the Stone next, since an English translation was just released.

(as a side note, to my annoyance my Kindle for Android app wants me to update it I want to download books with it and I'm kinda worried about if I'll still be able to sideload books if I do) It looks like sideloading still works post update!

[halfcactus]

Just finished The Tale of Goldiluck (manhwa) and cried many tears, started ANOTHER poetry collection (by Filipino poet Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta), and am still working through Li-Young Lee's Invention of the the Darling--the section I'm into has moved from the fantastical (creation story) to the real (the world as a dangerous place for people who are not the "right" color for it--it's a specifically SEAsian Chinese story) so I have to sit with it for a bit.

[sam_gardener]

Still reading: "After Transmigrating into the Cyber Game, I Defeated the Boss and Successfully Rose to the Top" but very slowly. Not because the story isn't interesting, just having difficulty focusing generally.

[duckprintspress]

I finished the Fish Book! I didn't hate volume 4 as much as I expected to so I'm considering that a win. I also started vol. 2 of the TGCF manhua in Chinese, as my next language practice read.

[alterkrmn]

I’ve been really busy with work, and since my recent Yuri on Ice obsession requires screen time I don’t have (or the energy to sit in front of a screen), I’ve been reading instead. Right now, I’m on SVSSS Vol. 2, Chapter 8.

So… Spoilers Shen Qingqiu self-destructed to save Luo Binghe from Xin Mo’s influence, and now I’m drowning in questions:

How is Shen Qingqiu going to come back?
How will that self-sacrificing act play into the System’s rules?
Does self-destruction give a discount on Binghe’s satisfaction points?!
And how will Airplane [...] react? (I refuse to write that full name, sorry not sorry.)

I’ll be very busy the next few days, so I’m not sure how much reading I’ll get done… but I NEED ANSWERS XD (No spoilers, though... please! :P)