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I've been silent for quite a while, sorry!

Real life things have kept me busy but I'm reading a lot, at least; both fic and novels. Got through Penric's Progress (Bujold), War of the Spider Queen II: Dissolution (Byers), and have almost finished Road of the Patriarch (Salvatore) lately. Have also gone to a small local(ish) convention, had my upstairs floors replaced, made an appointment to get my vehicle looked at (though not till Saturday) and mostly put everything back in the upstairs rooms. Okay, that last one's a lie, because there are still four large boxes, two bookshelves, an armchair, and a microwave sitting here in the living room with me, but still. Progress has been made. :D

On the fanfic front it's been a lot of Forgotten Realms, Weiss Kreuz, and Silmarillion fic, with a dash of Witcher and Original Works. :D This week is probably going to be as busy as the last couple, but I should start planning a recs post of some kind, or else I'll end up having another months-long DW gap without even noticing.

I also need to make some kind of food to eat, because otherwise it's going to become Every Dinner Is Frozen Pizza Week by default. (Which would at least free up some freezer space...)

Let's see, anything else? I'm well, the cats are well, although Youngest Cat shattered a very expensive collectible item yesterday morning and has been served notice that this is unacceptable, and I have Double Chocolate Wafer Bites to eat after lunch tomorrow, so things could be worse. :D
krait: Jarlaxle the dark elf mercenary in his purple hat (smiling rogue)
Way back in May, I posted my 'currently reading' list. I... have finally completed one book. *sheepish*

It took me so long that I ended up starting all over again, but I finally finished Promise of the Witch-King by RA Salvatore, woohoo!

The good:
* some delightful Jarlaxle-Entreri banter!
* two half-orc characters
* Entreri consciously chooses not to kill someone

The bad:
* there's a whole lot of grinding that gets tedious at times
* the editor must have been AWOL; there are numerous misspelled words and grammatical errors
* they tried so hard to make everybody hetero


It looks like I'll finish with Blood of Elves next, in a day or two.
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I am currently reading:

Blood of Elves, Andrzej Sapkowski
Promise of the Witch-King, RA Salvatore
Spock's World, Diane Duane

and currently rereading:

Return of the King, JRR Tolkien.



I'm at the "just started" stage on all of them, so not much to discuss yet, but I want to know what everybody else is reading and rereading!
krait: Jarlaxle the dark elf mercenary in his purple hat (smiling rogue)
Well, I fell down the rabbit hole into another old fandom, so between yesterday and today I have read more than 100K of Forgotten Realms fanfiction.

Oops?

Have some recs. Below the cut! )


Most of these are Jarlaxle/Artemis Entreri - which feels weird, because I didn't have the slightest interest in Entreri back in the day! But Drizzt is so unrelentingly het in the series that it's hard to find fics about him that I enjoy, Zak's dead, I've forgotten most of the cast of War of the Spider Queen, and it turns out (I discovered gradually through my reading) that there's basically a whole series about Jarlaxle and Entreri now? And they tried very hard to make everything as un-gay as they could, but since I have not read the books I'm just going to substitute logic instead. Nothing will ever convince me that male drow aren't all bisexual; Menzoberranzan is absolutely a Situational Sexuality setup if ever there was one.

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