Reading Wednesday
Apr. 8th, 2026 06:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sabotabbyWell looks like this sorry, battered world is still there, at least this part of the world, so here's what I'm reading I guess.
Just finished: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones. This whipped. Blood-soaked historical fiction set in the early 1900s as a Pikuni vampire tangles with a Lutheran minister in the wake of a horrific massacre. All of the trigger warnings, obviously as it's quite literally visceral, which is not the most upsetting thing about it. Jones is really quite a brilliant writer.
Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz. This is not the kind of thing that I normally like but works well as a chaser to the previous book, in that it's low-stakes, cozy, and fun. It's about a group of emancipated sentient robots, a car (also sentient), and a human who take over a ghost kitchen in the aftermath of a war between California and the rest of the US. If they don't pay off their debts, they'll be re-sold into slavery, but this is not the kind of book where that happens. It works for me largely because of the descriptions of the biang biang noodles, but it's also about the big theme of the year, which is who counts as a person.
Currently reading: About to start The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar.
Just finished: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones. This whipped. Blood-soaked historical fiction set in the early 1900s as a Pikuni vampire tangles with a Lutheran minister in the wake of a horrific massacre. All of the trigger warnings, obviously as it's quite literally visceral, which is not the most upsetting thing about it. Jones is really quite a brilliant writer.
Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz. This is not the kind of thing that I normally like but works well as a chaser to the previous book, in that it's low-stakes, cozy, and fun. It's about a group of emancipated sentient robots, a car (also sentient), and a human who take over a ghost kitchen in the aftermath of a war between California and the rest of the US. If they don't pay off their debts, they'll be re-sold into slavery, but this is not the kind of book where that happens. It works for me largely because of the descriptions of the biang biang noodles, but it's also about the big theme of the year, which is who counts as a person.
Currently reading: About to start The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar.
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Date: 2026-04-08 03:46 pm (UTC)I still can't believe so many people still see this behavior, and think "that's manly and macho, and definitely Alpha Male behavior. 100% Daddy material." But if yesterday's developments have one drawback, it's that his cultists can still go forth with their illusions intact that Trump is a genius deal maker who somehow salvaged this at the 11th hour, instead of needing to be rescued by Pakistan.
I'll never get over the fact that this man was supposed to be gone after November 2020. He wasn't supposed to be able to still get us. If there is a Hell, Merrick Garland is going to wake up there one day, and he's going to be chained to Donald Trump for all eternity.
(Sorry this is not in reference to the books you mentioned. I just needed to rant.)