Weekend reading roundup

[nanila]

What did you read this weekend? If you planned on anything specifically, did you read it? (Reminder link to intended weekend reading post)

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[nanila]

Newspapers, mostly: the Guardian online, and the Torygraph in print (due to being at the out-laws' house). I even managed to read an entire magazine.

[weaverbird]

Go you! That's a fair bit of reading, given how busy you are.

[nanila]

Thank you! I was quite happy about it, especially since I managed to get the toddler to engage with the magazine (especially the recipes & associated food photos).

[weaverbird]

I never got to the weaving patterns, but I did finish Howard's End and read a lot of Twitter and links from there. Also began my semi-annual re-read of The Hobbit and LoTR, because comfort reading.

[nanila]

Yay comfort reading. I just started comfort reading Northanger Abbey.

[weaverbird]

Ahhhhhhhhh. Happy sigh. Nothing like Austen for comfort reading! I go through all six at least once a year. The set is shelved right above the books in my icon - although I also have them on the Kindle for convenience (and because my set is from 1890-something and getting fragile).

This past year I finally caved and read The Mysteries of Udolfo - inspired, of course, by Catherine Morland. I was curious to see what all the fuss was about. It's so absurd and over the top and OMG LONG. I gather it created quite a sensation in its day, but it hasn't aged all that well (unlike Austen *g*).

[ironed_orchid]

I read 3 of the stories I had bookmarked, and recommend Immersion, by Aliette de Bodard and Spider the Artist, by Nnedi Okorafor to people who enjoy science fiction.

[nanila]

Oh wow. I have to share what an unexpected delight it was to open up Spider the Artist and find that it begins with quoted lyrics from "Zombie" by Fela Kuti which is one of my favourite songs ever.

[ironed_orchid]

:-D

[davidgillon]

I re-read the web-comic A Girl and Her Fed from start through to current issue. This was semi-unintentional, I checked to see if the author had added any more to the early pages she is re-doing in her current style (she hasn't, and I suspect she's abandoned the project at least for now), and found myself sucked into the story again. As that dropped me in mid-way through the first story (the current one picks up 5 years later), I eventually made myself go back to the beginning and do it properly. I continue to be impressed by both storytelling and the art (for both gorgeous outfits and dynamic posing).

And I also ended up re-reading 'A Leg to Stand On', which is a 55k-word project of mine I was working on last year. It held up better than I expected, a little too melodramatic in places, but that's easily fixed, mostly I think I need a new plot, but the characters stand up fine. I'm going to let it stew in the back of my mind and see if anything pops up.