{"id":2246,"date":"2023-12-13T21:50:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T05:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/?p=2246"},"modified":"2023-12-24T17:35:16","modified_gmt":"2023-12-25T01:35:16","slug":"unfinished-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2023\/12\/13\/unfinished-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Unfinished Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"321\" src=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/2023-banner-AEG_4913.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/2023-banner-AEG_4913.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/2023-banner-AEG_4913-300x96.jpg 300w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/2023-banner-AEG_4913-768x247.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I have several books in storage that I started reading before the move to my temporary apartment, and will likely need to start over when I get to unpack them.  I have a long reading list of newer and older things that are waiting for my attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But what else am I reading, aside from daily news at WaPo and the UK Guardian, plus some posts on Mastodon (which I visit weekly-ish, only to fall into various research rabbit holes)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The book I am most likely to stay up late reading: <em>System Collapse (the Murderbot Diaries) <\/em>by Martha Wells.  I love Murderbot! <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>II have finished a few manga I haven&#8217;t written about yet.  (Next weekend, maybe?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reading in progress, in no particular order:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Claymore<\/em> (manga on viz.com) by Norihiro, a very dark dystopian fantasy with swordfighting women super-soldiers fighting monsters.  I&#8217;m in chapter 51-ish, and can read through the end, as the story is complete a couple hundred chapters from now.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Designing Japan: A Future Built on Aesthetics<\/em> (non-fiction physical book) by Kenya Hara. 1\/3 of the way through.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>I Became a Sitter for the Obsessive Villains<\/em> (manga at tappytoon.com) by Seongyeong oh, Yeoram, &amp; i singna: a classic Tappytoon woke-up-in-a-book story, ongoing serial publication.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>I Became the Villainess in a Disastrous Novel<\/em> (manga at tappytoon.com) by Hagyeoon, Geoguri, &amp; Yoonrim (heroine wakes up in a book with a bad ending and tries to leave town), ongoing serial publication.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>There&#8217;s No Such Thing as an Easy Job<\/em> (fiction physical book) by Kikuko Tsumura.  A few chapters in, I&#8217;ll need to start over when I&#8217;m in the mood for reading about someone watching surveillance video!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>To My Husband&#8217;s Mistress<\/em> (manga at tappytoon.com) by Lachic, Dancingbrain, Nessa (abused young wife&#8217;s revenge plot with a hot, rich, arrogant male accomplice), ongoing serial publication, not many chapters available.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I have started and stopped several manga that are not my cup of tea.  While very few aren&#8217;t drawn consistently well (rare for published work!), there are some that start well but eventually all the girls are showering for no reason that advances the plot; they are nothing but fight scenes; they are about a video game, and a bit too much like playing one in which you respawn and have to replay the same levels; or they start strongly as a revenge tale, but somehow wind up having entire chapters that are discussions about&#8230; royal politics and agriculture??!?  <strong>I won&#8217;t write about those.<\/strong>  There are more fun things to write about!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have abandoned a few audiobooks, but subscribe to support a local bookstore, so I&#8217;ll be back on that horse soon.  I have several digital books that I will read if ever my eyes aren&#8217;t so tired from staring at screens (ahem).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have several books in storage that I started reading before the move to my temporary apartment, and will likely need to start over when I get to unpack them. I have a long reading list of newer and older things that are waiting for my attention. But what else am I reading, aside from &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2023\/12\/13\/unfinished-reading\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unfinished Reading&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,135],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-2246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-life","tag-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2246"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2295,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246\/revisions\/2295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}