Reading hits and misses

[cimorene]

Aside from the two books I finished in the last week, I bounced off another couple (Aegypt by John Crowley and Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay), gave up on a few more that were in my second-to-last book post (Valente, Murphy), and ultimately reread this very long fanfiction novel from my bookmarks which I'm pretty sure I read only once, in 2015, because of the length (other things the road to hell is paved with by callmearcturus and LuciaZephyr, Dresden Files, Dresden/Marcone, E, ~138k). It's funny rereading something when you remember how you reacted to it somewhat but don't remember the story. It didn't seem as long as I remembered it being, or as much of a cliffhanger. The novel is clearly setting up a sequel, which was abandoned and unfinished; but the novel itself does actually have an ending. But mainly I feel a bit let down because I thought I remembered it being this huge monumental undertaking to read it, but it was just a normal book basically. Now it's back to trying to finish Ellen Kushner's Thomas the Rhymer (mixed feelings) and trying to start Michael Shea's Nifft the Lean, and neither are quite doing it.

I did glance at AO3 after we finished watching Our Flag Means Death, but it's always a mixed bag with a cliffhanger ending like this show had. I really want to know how canon is going to resolve the cliffhanger, so the fanfiction sequels don't quite work. And meanwhile, the ship is canon, so while it is left with lots of longing and unresolved romantic tension right now and hence fueling everybody's frenzy of fan activity, there isn't a lot missing. I have found a few Alternate Universe - Modern comedies that got a chuckle, but there's not all that much yet. Of course, it is still early right now, in terms of this new fandom.

Otherwise I continue intermittently poking through my old bookmarks looking for something to reread and finding that none of it quite hits the spot either - or rather some of the stories are nice but none of them make me go "Ah, right, I can obsessively reread everything in THIS fandom right now!" That's what I need, a whole fandom to reread for a while.

Comments

[princessofgeeks]

My whole fandom to reread is usually Due South!

[cimorene]

Hmm... the problem is I've reread my favorites from that fandom more often than most other stuff and I don't enjoy it as much when I still remember so much about them! I have reread a handful of more recent bookmarks on my trip through my bookmarks though.

[princessofgeeks]

I totally get that.

I have been having a small HP reading renaissance due to astolat's new Draco fic, Heal Thyself.

[cimorene]

I go reread a ton of Harry Draco every few years and unfortunately the last time was only last winter, so I still remember too many. 😅

[eve_n_furter]

I've downloaded that Dresden files fic, but have never come around to read it. I'll put it into the more immediate todo-list I think.

Looking up Dresden-downloads in my Calibre library, I found binz & shiplizard's "Not Even Silence in Chicago"-series. That's a great (re-)read, if you're on a Dresden groove.

[cimorene]

I have a lot of bookmarks of theirs, so that presumably is included there even though I don't recognize the series name...

but I don't think I will be sticking with the fandom, because I glanced over the rest of my bookmarks and went like Oh, nah, don't want to reread that one about quite a few. Usually lightgetsin is my favorite by about 50% more than everybody else, but I'd forgotten that almost all their Dresden Files fic is m/f in some way or other and I also have reread them more recently. So I just reread Cross and then skipped the rest.