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Here's some of what I read in October and November.( Read more... )

I had another slow reading month, both in fanfic and books. I finished only three fics in September, including:

• an Only Friends Sand/Ray/Boeing threesome fic (3k, explicit)
• a Seventeen RPF Seungcheol/Jeonghan/Mingyu omegaverse threesome fic (16k, explicit)
• a Devil Judge omegaverse Yo-han/Ga-on fic (6k, explicit)

At least this little collection has a pleasing Venn diagram-like quality to it, even if the quantity is disappointing.

Happy reading!

I'm still on my Agatha Christie kick. This month it was Murder in Mesopotamia, which is set on an archaeological dig in Iraq. I'm pretty sure it's one I never read before, nor have I seen the David Suchet episode. Christie was interested in archaeology and participated in digs, so it had some interesting details about the work and day-to-day life of archaeologists in that era. It featured a different narrator than most Poirot books: a woman hired as nurse to the eventual victim about a week before her death. The nurse was both opinionated and unreliable, which was a fun combo in some regards since you could see how her prejudices for or against certain characters were affecting her judgement and blinding her to some of the realities of the case, but unpleasant when her opinions involved racism against the local Arab workers at the dig, which they frequently did.

As for the mystery itself, perhaps the easiest explanation of my feelings is that I enjoyed the setup, but not the solution. One hopes for a satisfying answer to all three of the questions of Who, Why, and How, and the ending was so improbable on one of those counts that it destroyed my suspension of disbelief. Nevertheless, I enjoyed the classic Christie twists and turns and it's a light, fast read, so I wouldn't describe it as wasted time.

And here are some of the fics I enjoyed in July!( MDZS, Beyond Evil, K-pop RPF )

Original fiction reading of the month included The Amalfi Curse, by Sarah Penner, which was fine, but not amazing. Maybe a little blander than I feel like a story about Italian sea witches ought to have been. Gorgeous cover, though.

And here are some of the fics I enjoyed in May:( The Pitt and SHINee RPF )

Original fiction reading of the month included The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door, by H.G. Parry, a dark academia historical fantasy with a lot of ominous foreshadowing that kept me turning pages to see exactly how everything was going to go wrong.

On the fanfiction front, here are some of the fics I enjoyed in March:( 2 MDZS epistolary fics )

Here are some of the fics I enjoyed in January:( Read more... )

Here are some of the fics I enjoyed in November!( Nirvana in Fire and K-pop RPF )

Posting this a little early in my time zone because I'll be traveling tomorrow. Here are some of the fics I enjoyed in September:( Moonlight Chicken and K-pop RPF )

Another slow reading month, alas, but here are some of the fics I enjoyed in July:( MDZS and Word of Honor )

Here are some of the fics I enjoyed in May:( Only Friends and K-pop RPF )