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]

I'm quite happy with this weekend's reading! I read a good many children's books, as expected, but I also managed a fair bit of the Sally Ride biography. We had guests, so I'm pleased at getting anything read at all besides a restaurant menu...

Have quite a lot of catching up to do with work e-mail and DW/LJ still.

[alexseanchai]

Pineapple chicken recipe. Not vegetarian, obv, and not gluten-free either (though with GF all-purpose flour instead of non-GF, that's solved), but oooh does it sound tasty.

[nanila]

It does sound good! Requires a lot of chicken, though. Tofu might be an adequate substitute?

[alexseanchai]

It does, yes. I suppose tofu would work? I'd want to experiment before saying for sure.

[legionseagle]

The first 300 pages of Guy Gavriel Kay's Ysabel

[nanila]

*First* 300 pages? How many pages does it have? Am now picturing something that, in dead tree edition, could be used as a most satisfactory substitute for a very large codfish...

[legionseagle]

It's about 500 pages long, though, to be fair, an actual page-turner. Exasperating, but a page turner.

[azurelunatic]

I had a bumper crop! The usual reading list reading, with a touch of friends page and twitter here and there, and the I got started on a substantial chunk of fanfiction, and then Saturday I said to myself "Well, Unspoken is still sitting there, let's get on with it!" and once I started I did stop to go stock up on fruit for the week and every now and then I stopped when I was having too many feelings, but immediately upon finishing I went and located ebooks for the second and third book in the trilogy because I needed to know what happened. Deliciously tropey soulbonding with magicians, with many many many of the issues of soulbonding explored.

[nanila]

Wow, awesome! What a fantastic way to spend a weekend's reading.

[ironed_orchid]

I read one short story, "The Star Pit", by Samuel Delany, and a LOT of social media and articles people had linked to.

[nanila]

That sounds very satisfying. :)

[miss_s_b]

Got about half way through Nick Nightmare Investigates

[nanila]

It sounds like you're in suspense...!

[miss_s_b]

It's really silly pulp-detective-meets-CTHULHU ;)

[weaverbird]

About as expected: Twitter (and linked news articles), LJ & DW, emails, bedtime reading (still Dune, as I always fall asleep after a page or two *g*).

[nanila]

Huzzah for comforting bedtime reading. \o/