Belated Wednesday reading

[selenay]

One day, I'm actually going to do this on Wednesday...

What are you currently reading?

I am so excited because I finished books and now I can start new ones! Yay! So I'm now racing my way through Symbiont, which is the newest book by Mira Grant. My love for this author is ridiculous.

Yes, even though she's writing about zombies and I usually hate zombie lit. It's smart zombie lit, okay? That's not really *about* the zombies, they only provide the framework for something much cooler.

My lighter, digital read is Romancing the Duke by Tessa Dare and it's utterly delightful so far.

What did you recently finish?

Longbourn by Jo Baker. I liked it enough to have a proper rec scheduled on my alternate Tumblr, selenayrecsbooks, for later this week. It wasn't what I expected when I opened it up and it took me longer to get into than I thought it would, but once I hit a certain point, I couldn't stop. I got ridiculously attached to Sarah and her story, which surprised the heck out of me.

And Then He Kissed Her, which was much better than the three weeks it took me to read makes it sound. I blame NaNo. It's a historical romance, a genre I appear to be getting addicted to, and the heroine is not any form of gentleman's daughter or nobility. She has a job. She's a secretary. In historical romance, this is very rare. Okay, the love interest is a marquess, but it's still a nice little twist on the trope and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

What do you think you'll read next?

em>Waistcoats and Weaponry by Gail Carriger is next on my on-the-shelf reads. After that, who knows? Probably my history of rabies book. And I've got my eye on a half a dozen romance novels for my Kindle.

Comments

[topaz119]

Oh, I enjoyed Longbourn, too! In addition to getting pulled into the main story, I liked how it made me look at some of the characters of P&P in a different light (especially Mrs. Bennett and Mr. Collins.) I was genuinely fearful about what Wickham might do, too, I just cared for the kitchen maid so much. (I have to use my Lady Catherine icon, even though I'm not at all displeased!)

[selenay]

Yes, Mrs. Bennet and Mr. Collins look so different to me now! Weirdly, I understand and feel more sympathy for her, while I actually detest Mr. Collins more now. Poor Charlotte.

Wickham's preference for young girls is hinted at in the book (Darcy makes a point of noting that Georgiana was barely 15), but seeing it so starkly in Longbourn really opened my eyes to it. Polly was so sweet and innocent, I wanted to scream when Wickham was asking her to be sweet for sweets. Vile man.

I love that icon, BTW :-D