Belated Reading Post
Apr. 4th, 2026 04:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rosanicusHELLO EVERYONE. I am alive. We got our Ofsted call a full term early and therefore I have been snowed under for quite some time, so not much actual reading going on, but I thought I'd drop some thoughts on my current reading material and also very briefly note that the Project Hail Mary film was excellent (went to see it so I was awake enough for end of term karaoke...) even though I don't have immediate plans to read the book.
CURRENTLY READING
I am struggling my way through Can't Spell Treason Without Tea, which I received for Christmas and wish so very deeply I liked more than I do. Cosy fantasy is a tough genre to balance, I think, and to be honest while I understand the criticism of Legends & Lattes I think that book was much more adept at understanding the appeal behind the idea of a fantasy coffeeshop. Meanwhile this book spent about sixty pages on the admin of getting deed authorisation from local government, ten pages on baking nice things for the shop, and maybe one page on the actual books being sold at the magic bookshop run by The World's Most Powerful Mage.
Relatedly, the main couple's excellent conflict resolution skills have been driving me up the wall. I need them to have a proper argument just one time. However, I am compelled by the mystery of the dragon eggs, so I continue my upward climb to the resolution one painfully obvious therapy speak conversation at a time. May or may not do a write-up of my various quibbles with the plot, but it all depends on whether it sticks any sort of landing with the dragons.
Thankfully, the WEJLU discord is just beginning a read-through of the Steeley books so I'll have that to sink into like a warm bath when I need it. Tubby Wilde <3
RECENTLY READ
One of my ongoing projects at school is organising our poor neglected libraries, and while weeding the KS1 library I came across a book I have genuinely been searching for (sans title) for years. It's an extremely short book in the Yellow Bananas strand called Ollie and the Trainers, about a boy who is taught to read by a pair of magic trainers. It was exactly as delightful as I remember it being when I was about seven. Then about ten minutes after finding that one I picked up The Perfect Hamburger by Alexander McCall Smith (yes, that one) which was another hit of pure nostalgia to my veins. Really I should stop reading so many of the books while weeding but it's just fun. I also keep opening cupboards which disgorge hundreds more unsorted books just when I think the whole library is organised. It's unfortunate really.
FUTURE READING
One day I will finish reading The Hands of the Emperor. Is it this day? I don't know. But god I love Cliopher Mdang more than my own life.
CURRENTLY READING
I am struggling my way through Can't Spell Treason Without Tea, which I received for Christmas and wish so very deeply I liked more than I do. Cosy fantasy is a tough genre to balance, I think, and to be honest while I understand the criticism of Legends & Lattes I think that book was much more adept at understanding the appeal behind the idea of a fantasy coffeeshop. Meanwhile this book spent about sixty pages on the admin of getting deed authorisation from local government, ten pages on baking nice things for the shop, and maybe one page on the actual books being sold at the magic bookshop run by The World's Most Powerful Mage.
Relatedly, the main couple's excellent conflict resolution skills have been driving me up the wall. I need them to have a proper argument just one time. However, I am compelled by the mystery of the dragon eggs, so I continue my upward climb to the resolution one painfully obvious therapy speak conversation at a time. May or may not do a write-up of my various quibbles with the plot, but it all depends on whether it sticks any sort of landing with the dragons.
Thankfully, the WEJLU discord is just beginning a read-through of the Steeley books so I'll have that to sink into like a warm bath when I need it. Tubby Wilde <3
RECENTLY READ
One of my ongoing projects at school is organising our poor neglected libraries, and while weeding the KS1 library I came across a book I have genuinely been searching for (sans title) for years. It's an extremely short book in the Yellow Bananas strand called Ollie and the Trainers, about a boy who is taught to read by a pair of magic trainers. It was exactly as delightful as I remember it being when I was about seven. Then about ten minutes after finding that one I picked up The Perfect Hamburger by Alexander McCall Smith (yes, that one) which was another hit of pure nostalgia to my veins. Really I should stop reading so many of the books while weeding but it's just fun. I also keep opening cupboards which disgorge hundreds more unsorted books just when I think the whole library is organised. It's unfortunate really.
FUTURE READING
One day I will finish reading The Hands of the Emperor. Is it this day? I don't know. But god I love Cliopher Mdang more than my own life.
