Weekend reading roundup

[nanila]

How did your weekend reading go? If you planned on anything specifically, did you read it?

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[azurelunatic]

About equal parts reading and writing, composed mostly of Dreamwidth and IRC. Definitely did not plan on the IRC bits.

[heliopausa]

amazingly, yes. I read the 1944 detective novel I'd planned to read, The Keys by Patricia Wentworth. I thought the writing part was a bit of a cheat, because the author endowed the detective with the awesome ability to compel every single person she interviewed to tell the truth. But it was great to read as a wartime artefact, with hints about how to spin out the food ration, and keeping a close watch on dodgy spy-style behaviour, and insights into the culture of the times.
I also obsessively read updates and analysis of the election.

[chickenfeet]

Ploughing through my occasional reread of A Dance to the Music of Time

[bonnefois]

Yesterday I finished Touchwood by Karin Kallmaker. I packed my kindle and tried to read In Every Port by Karin Kallmaker last night, but I got the blank pages pdf kindle issue, so I'm probably going to either have to suck it up and convert it to mobi or read it on the laptop. I poked at Roller Coaster by Karin Kallmaker, but it's giving me that annoying PDF issue on kindle where the text is horribly small. So, it's going to be laptop, converting, or sucking it up and reading small text. (Actually, I apparently converted it to mobi earlier, huh)

I miss the page numbers when I go to mobi, though. I'm a bit obsessive about page count. I'll pause to estimate how much I have left and see how fast I'm going. Mobi doesn't really let me do that.

Anyways, I'm also up to page 120 of Austentatious by Alyssa Goodnight, though I've been reading bites of that one for a while. I left all my lgbt books (that aren't on kindle, which is passworded) at home. I don't think a family vacation is a great place to bring them out. Plus, I don't want to haul the books back, I'm just going to leave them at the vacation house for whoever goes there next. I didn't want to haul a ton of books to the vacation (and grandma would toss me in the lake for it, to be sure) so I'll probably be using the kindle a lot.

Oh, also, since last check in I finally finished Night Lights by Bonnie Shrewsberry Arthur, and got most of Frosting On The Cake by Karin Kallmaker. All I need to finish it is to read In Every port and Watermark, then I'll be able to finish those post-story short stories, and another one for the box.

Oh, I didn't mention the gist of all this. My friend, possibilityleft, has a book wishlist on amazon, and I realized I had something like 80% of them, so I'm foregoing library and most everything but research books to read through it to send her some big boxes full for her birthday, and then Christmas.