Linking up with Taking On A World of Words.

What have you recently finished reading?

Last night I pretty much mainlined volume one of Mistakenly Saving the Villain (Feng Yu Nie), and… this is why I hesitate to start series which haven’t been finished or fully released in translation or whatever reason there might be for me not being able to read the whole thing. I did order volume two, which is out, but volume three isn’t until the end of June, and volume four not until autumn. Sob!

As you can guess, I had fun with it — Song Qingshi and Yue Wuhuan are completely unhinged about each other, even while Song Qingshi is kinda oblivious to why either of them are that way. I am suspicious of everything about An Long, and very curious where other things are going. I will probably read volume two pretty soon after it arrives — or I hope so, anyway; I can’t always keep up the momentum.

What are you currently reading?

I’m actually currently in a state where I’m technically reading a lot of books, in that they’re marked as “currently reading”, but I haven’t touched any of them in a little bit. I think my next target to try to focus on and finish is John Dickson Carr’s The Unicorn Murders, which was this month’s British Library Crime Classic and should be a fun one. I slightly stalled at first because the main character pretty much launched the book by lying about something kinda high stakes (pretending he is indeed a spy when a mistake is made by an old acquaintance), and I hate that… but it’s classic crime, so, you know, the emotional part of things is likely to be skated over reasonably lightly. It’ll be fiiiine (they said, in hopeful tones).

What will you be reading next?

I think I’m going to try to focus to get the currently reading pile under control, really. It feels pretty blocked-up and like it’s unfun to have so many books on the go. Some of it might be being realistic and going “clearly it isn’t the time for this book” and deciding to DNF or put it back onto the TBR. Some of it might just be picking something to focus on — like Kate Strasdin’s Dressing the Queen, which I am in fact pretty enthusiastic about!