Read-in-Progress Wednesday

[geraineon]

This is your weekly read-in-progress post~

For spoilers:

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Comments

[geraineon]

Been reading more JP novels than CN last week.

For CN, I think it's only The Beauty's Blade, going at a slow pace. I shared my thoughts for ch. 1-10 here and here.

For JP, I finished Parasitic Soul vol. 1, Planet, and Doomsday Lovers, all of them are by Konohara Narise.

I really enjoyed Planet, but it's a heavy read. It's a story told from the perspective of a poor, homeless, developmentally slow, neurodivergent 40+ year old, whose only support had disappeared from his life and so he wanders through life going from construction work to construction work, being taken advantage by others due to his naivety, not quite understanding what people want from him, anxious at any signs of anger/violence. It's labelled as BL, but honestly it's ... not (well, not what people think of BL nowadays I guess). I'd file this under literary fiction, so as not to give people expectations of any romantic relationship plot-line or a satisfying, clean, and uplifting resolution.

[aurumcalendula]

I continued my The Beauty's Blade reread (my most recent thoughts on it are here) and caught up on Dragon Subjugation Incantation. I'm having so much fun with both of them!

The Beauty's Blade: Highlight for spoilers! *It's neat rereading this knowing what Fu Wanqing's plan is and catching some of the foreshadowing.*

Dragon Subjugation Incantation: I'm so fond of Su Yu and I'm enjoying Ruan Li's complicated feeling about Luo Qingci! Highlight for spoilers! *I suspect Luo Qingci's heartstrings might be starting to grow back.*

[silverblade219]

Thanks for posting the read-along! I am having fun following it even though I don't comment as much.

[aurumcalendula]

I'm glad to hear that!

[geraineon]

I'm behind but shall catch up to more Beauty's Blade tonight!

[shipperslist]

I’m reading Thousand Autumns, currently in book 2. So far, I’m enjoying the story, although the endless duel parade is a bit exasperating.

[geraineon]

Haha, no way around it. It's pretty traditionally fight-y wuxia... though even investigations/cafe-files type wuxia also involves a lot of fighting.

I'm excited for you to get to [SPOILERS]~

[douqi]

I'm 25% of the way through Song of the Peach Blossom by Ruo Hua Ci Shu, and have already been able to check off a bunch of boxes on my Ruo Hua Ci Shu bingo card (highlights: girl raised as a boy for vague inheritance reasons, one hell of a mommy kink, protagonist's gender is curiously non-salient despite being literal royalty, Significant Love Token).

[geraineon]

Hahaha, it'll be fun to make actual bingo cards for some authors. I know I have a mental one for Mu Su Li.