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Some auxiliary activities that may enable reading but are definitely NOT reading on which I've spent more time this weekend than actual reading:
In terms of ACTUAL reading, I finished An Unseen Attraction; this was my first KJ Charles book, and I have to say I enjoyed it. I'm always a fan of shifting/alternating POV if it's done well, so that was nice to see. I think I'm realizing that my favourite kind of "romance" (a term I'm going to use carefully for a variety of personal reasons that I'll talk about later, maybe) books are ones that lean towards the plot-heavy or at least have a central mystery/problem/adventure for the characters to solve. Because like, if I want just the "will they realize their feelings?" and the aftermath of that -- well, that's what fanfiction is for, isn't it?
The blurb describes it as a slowburn, but honestly I thought it was a bit quick? If anything, it took a bit too long for the mystery to start happening, rather than the smut - though the smut was quite good, I am not complaining -- loved the vague Dom/sub undertones and that the characters don't necessarily fall into those stereotypes. Learned some new words (thank you, Kobo dictionary feature!) and more than I thought I would about taxidermy. Will probably check out the two sequels if my library has them.
- Setting up Calibre exactly how I want it
- This includes creating a custom series-like column that tracks in-series Discworld reading order, as well as sub-series.
- Trawling Project Gutenberg (as well as its... slightly more opinionated Canadian offshoot) for public-domain books I never got around to reading;
- Incidentally, it turns out the original Gutenberg is a pretty good source for those lovely monochrome ink illustrations that I was trying to figure out the name for a few months ago (does anyone know? I mean stuff like this); if I can get them cleaned up in photoshop/CSP they might make really nice transparent .pngs
- Fixing metadata on the above
- Also fixing metadata on all the books I had laying around from the 2019 Hugo Voting packet
- Making some custom fanfic covers so my Kobo will look nice (I showed
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isis the one I made of her fantastic Being Ray Kowalski and she seemed to like it! ♥)
In terms of ACTUAL reading, I finished An Unseen Attraction; this was my first KJ Charles book, and I have to say I enjoyed it. I'm always a fan of shifting/alternating POV if it's done well, so that was nice to see. I think I'm realizing that my favourite kind of "romance" (a term I'm going to use carefully for a variety of personal reasons that I'll talk about later, maybe) books are ones that lean towards the plot-heavy or at least have a central mystery/problem/adventure for the characters to solve. Because like, if I want just the "will they realize their feelings?" and the aftermath of that -- well, that's what fanfiction is for, isn't it?
The blurb describes it as a slowburn, but honestly I thought it was a bit quick? If anything, it took a bit too long for the mystery to start happening, rather than the smut - though the smut was quite good, I am not complaining -- loved the vague Dom/sub undertones and that the characters don't necessarily fall into those stereotypes. Learned some new words (thank you, Kobo dictionary feature!) and more than I thought I would about taxidermy. Will probably check out the two sequels if my library has them.