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Lovely to have light entertaining, not demanding read. And Carl and Donut (and Katia) are a good team. Caol is gonna try and save everybody like a BIG DAM HERO.

Audio re-read and it is going well. Women are infantilized but other than that... So 1960s.

Very much an Odesssey for Adrena and Harpo with sirens and traps at the mall. For Yara it is a journey on the TOP of a talking whale HOWBIG sorta like Jonah. God was judging a bodybuilding competition cribbing off fellow judges' notes.

Book One: Yara gets a mission from God. What is the condition? Check.

Lots of discussions not as much action which seems to be the way in these ghost installments.

MCGuire is a champion re-capper and at book 14 I love her for it. Back to Mary 6 months after she got blown up taking out the Covent of St. George's headquaters. Hopefully balancing plot with character work, but screw it we're on book 14. Ride or die and then haunting...

Very YA. I was in the hold line for it at my library for so long I have no idea who sent me to this. A booktuber or best of list... No it was released this year. Viv is lonely and tortured with terrible secret specialness and dead dad and a Baxter boyfriend and a super hot professor who is also a demon (demons killed her dad). She is 21 and in magic college so she can fuck but soooo YA. Competent so will finish.

Mystery inside the game and politics and
intrigue and bullshit contrived rivalries outside. Lots to keep everything tiking along.

End of part one. Lucie is Kafka or one of his creations? Menstral tears and magic. Men uncomfortable or hostile. Mother/daughter relationships. Lucie wanting to 'fix' her daughters and her parents. Pierrot her husband's disgust over her.

Forget Sancturary Moon, another episode of Murderbot Diaries is on!

Spear is broken and so is somebody's penis, maybe God's. Really death of the gods and meaning stuff here, man...

Sir Dragonet and Constantine after a rough start are dragged into (in the wake of) holy battle tank Galahad on the Quest for the Holy Grail - which restored the virginities of a couple of ladies at Camelot in its teaser trailer appearance. Arthur declines. Perhaps seeing the quest as a contest for his replacement since he and Guinivere can't come up with a heir.

Very old transmasc tale of Sir Dinadan that I spotted the moment it was noted he always bathed along. Fairy trained! Awesome.

Guessing where I am. I'm at X and wow is Wharton skewering Glennard. He is such an arrogant, hypocritical, cowardly weasel. Trying to off load his guilt on his wife Alexa. I'd have way more respect if he just owned his act of selling dead Margaret Aubyn's letters of love and longing to him. She's dead and I needed the money. It would be shitty, but I could respect that more.

Finished the novella, Stag Dance. Interesting transformation on top of transformation at the end. Melancholy ending? Uncharted, 'magical realism', erupting from the boarders of civilization into pure nature. Something like that. Torrey Peters impresses and surprises.

The game mechanics are putting me in mind of the magic systems of Brandon Sanderson which while very concret and graspable could also be mechanistic and tedious. I've never been into roleplay games. The stats and levels and logistics has never been what I've found at all appealing in fantasy. The numbers are boring, leveling up is boring. I want story and character and textured knarly world building that shapes them.

At first I was worried that the title novella was going to make fun of the narrator, a big Paul Bunyon type, but now deep in I'm deeply caring for him and his sister Liesen. Damn good stuff.

Well... this is now recorded on my goodreads.

A bit of a slog with characters that aren't working for me.

Massimo is a pushy fucker. He better be Domenico the villian. I hate him lots. Not a good looking control freak withia rocking bod and wicked smile. The boundary pushing is soooo gross. (only in a old fashioned novel would we get away with the one character is actually another gimick)

Ughetto's life as a trafficed (by ma and grandma) castrado and Teresa/Octavia having a threesome with Mozart and Countess Milosch where the countess bites orgasmically both of her partners. Hot. Jumping between past in Mozart's time and present.

Deep in the prep for Don Giovani at La Scala in Milan.

Hey.... I think, after a lot of table setting, the plot kicked in...

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime: a dark expression of Wilde's deepest fears wrapped with a funny plot and banter. It feels like he touched the burning brand of his deepest passions and immediately pulled the mask back on. Very sad. Or: "'What nonsense!" cried Lady Windermere. 'I never heard such nonsense in all my life.'"

Love the banter and the world, *quite* disinterested in the plot which is a shame cause it would help me care more about the characters - especially poor wounded fuck-up DePaul. Narration by Kowal is terrific though.

Chapter 1: book Isserley is NOT stone cold hottie Scarlet J - she is an oddly shaped predator with big lovely tits bolted on, like a hunter who has developed mock characteristics to lure their prey - actually precisely that. Though her big hands could be coded as trans which would be unfortunate. A great breakdown of an alien figuring out what male humans want in a woman. Dammingly good.

Hadrian takes charge and immediately scales back, thus protecting Roman - those efficient brutal fuckers.

Rapidly getting to the end of installment 1. Will it have a closure in and of itself? Shall see.

Ahhh I get Mary's story right at the end there. Duh, that is on me thoughiI wonder if peace would have been more correct than more -- though uiven the choice with a family you love, who wouldn't take more? Now on the the novella of Verity's mourning.