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]

lots of life things happened/is still happening, haven't been reading except for another short story from The Way Spring Arrives collection of translated Chinese SF short stories. The story I read was Dragonslaying, by Shen Yingying, translated by Emily Xueni Jin. I thought it was a pretty interesting story (female doctor travelled far to watch a secretive medical procedure that transforms merpeople into humans to then be made to serve humans [well, concubines, wives, sex workers] and discovers other secrets about the people who were tasked with it generation by generation).

[larryhammer]

After finishing I Am Average and Unremarkable by Yue Xia Die Ying, I turned around and started Like Pearl and Jade by the same author. This one's a historical romance, so roughly on the same lines as her Eight Treasure Trousseau, with some differences: the MC is only 10 at the start, and is a transmigrator from something close to our world/era. This last detail is very understated -- she's not using modern knowledge to advance herself in any way, only to reflect on the world she's in by contrasting it to the history she knew. Well, and also to behave somewhat more maturely than others expect.

Anyway, am ~15 chapters in, out of ~100. It's about half the length of Journey to the West, which I've decided to use as my measure for c-novels.

ETA: Oh, and a detail that amuses me: the food in the imperial palace is not as good as in households of higher aristocrats, because the imperial chefs are too worried about making a mistake to cook with flair. This sounds all too plausible.

[aurumcalendula]

More chapters of Seeking Immortality in Vain!

Highlight for spoilers! *I'm finding it particularly entertaining that people (notably the alliance princess) are noticing Song Juguang's feeling towards Jiang Changbai.*

[ehyde]

Caught up on the translation of To Embers We Return and now I'm taking a break from cnovels and readingPost Captain (Aubrey/Maturin 2)