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books and such
Mar. 22nd, 2022 01:17 pm My log of all the media i consume in a month is strangely full of books this month. I've actually finished four entire books this month. Now true, one of them was one i started like last year i think, but the other three i started THIS month and actually finished them this month. For me, this is impressive bc i honestly do not read much anymore. I very often start books and don't finish them until years later. It's pretty bad. The Daevabad Trilogy is mainly what got me. I'm reading the Winternight one now too, but the second book isn't really gripping me at this point yet. The characters aren't as vibrant as the Daevabad one.
Today i was poking around my Google books library looking at other things i uploaded awhile ago, some of that i've read, and some that i haven't. I was reminded of a book called the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms or smth like that and i looked at my attempt to read it hahah and ye gods i just could not deal with the first person POV giant info dump at the start. My eyes glazed over and i backed out of it. I used to be a bit of an info dumper in my earliest days of serious fiction writing, but my gosh even I wasn't THAT bad. Like literally, you can't make me care about random geography and politics of a world i have no reason to care about at this juncture. Maybe that's not how every reader functions, but whether it's shows or books, you have to make me care about the characters IMMEDIATELY.
Then I read some random short romance thing by Jeannie Lin, which was kinda like an ancient Cdram in book form IF Cdrams dared to be that raunchy. Romance writers really use a method all their own though. THe language is so dramatic and breathless and honestly pretty cringe, but the rest of it did throw me back into ancient Cdrama land and it all felt so familiar.
One thing though, seriously, please y'all romance writers out there, do NOT use the word organ for cock. PLEASE. It threw me out of the scene so fast when she did that. I was like, wait, what, where tf did an organ come from all of a sudden. And then i'm like OH. Yeah just don't do it lol. It reads very weird and badly. Manhood is better than organ.
I'm a little bit curious about what else she has out there but idk lol.
Today i was poking around my Google books library looking at other things i uploaded awhile ago, some of that i've read, and some that i haven't. I was reminded of a book called the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms or smth like that and i looked at my attempt to read it hahah and ye gods i just could not deal with the first person POV giant info dump at the start. My eyes glazed over and i backed out of it. I used to be a bit of an info dumper in my earliest days of serious fiction writing, but my gosh even I wasn't THAT bad. Like literally, you can't make me care about random geography and politics of a world i have no reason to care about at this juncture. Maybe that's not how every reader functions, but whether it's shows or books, you have to make me care about the characters IMMEDIATELY.
Then I read some random short romance thing by Jeannie Lin, which was kinda like an ancient Cdram in book form IF Cdrams dared to be that raunchy. Romance writers really use a method all their own though. THe language is so dramatic and breathless and honestly pretty cringe, but the rest of it did throw me back into ancient Cdrama land and it all felt so familiar.
One thing though, seriously, please y'all romance writers out there, do NOT use the word organ for cock. PLEASE. It threw me out of the scene so fast when she did that. I was like, wait, what, where tf did an organ come from all of a sudden. And then i'm like OH. Yeah just don't do it lol. It reads very weird and badly. Manhood is better than organ.
I'm a little bit curious about what else she has out there but idk lol.
