Reading Wednesday 8/02
Feb. 8th, 2017 06:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livRecently acquired: Psychohistorical crisis by Donald Kingsbury, a present from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rysmiel which appears to be Asimov fanfic, I'm quite looking forward to it.
Recently read: Dipping my toe into Yuletide stuff, thanks to people who wrote things and mentioned them where I would notice.
I have a couple of kinky erotic pieces to recommend:
Promotion bysilveradept. This is something I wouldn't have expected to work, namely fic about the game of chess. The author warns for dubious consent and violent death, but it's not very realistic, it's about sentient chess pieces. I personally found the erotic elements really vivid and definitely hot, and the disturbing elements quite glossed over.
Lovely in her fall by![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
edonohana / rachelmanija. This is fanfic of the setting of Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel books, but it's only about the setting and not the plot; there are no spoilers and you don't need to know the originals. The setting being pseudo-Mediaeval France, with a fantasy religion based around paid sex work, with different Houses offering different styles. The published books are about a divinely-inspired masochist so are very focused on S&M, whereas edonohana has chosen to write about all the other kinks that are not to do with pain. The piece is a very nice example of characterization via a series of sex scenes, and I think sheds some light on how the sexual / religious institutions portrayed in Kushiel might actually work; Carey's world-building can be somewhat thin. As well as paid-for, kinky sex, this story includes references to death, but that doesn't happen on stage.
Currently reading: In theory, A journey to the end of the millennium by AB Yehoshua, but I'm still not really making headway with that.
Up next:doseybat's mother recommended me My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante; I generally trust the Batmother's recs, and she said that the books were really engaging even if not amazingly well written, plus I like books about deep friendships.
rysmiel which appears to be Asimov fanfic, I'm quite looking forward to it.Recently read: Dipping my toe into Yuletide stuff, thanks to people who wrote things and mentioned them where I would notice.
I have a couple of kinky erotic pieces to recommend:
Promotion by
silveradept. This is something I wouldn't have expected to work, namely fic about the game of chess. The author warns for dubious consent and violent death, but it's not very realistic, it's about sentient chess pieces. I personally found the erotic elements really vivid and definitely hot, and the disturbing elements quite glossed over. Lovely in her fall by
rachelmanija. This is fanfic of the setting of Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel books, but it's only about the setting and not the plot; there are no spoilers and you don't need to know the originals. The setting being pseudo-Mediaeval France, with a fantasy religion based around paid sex work, with different Houses offering different styles. The published books are about a divinely-inspired masochist so are very focused on S&M, whereas Currently reading: In theory, A journey to the end of the millennium by AB Yehoshua, but I'm still not really making headway with that.
Up next:
doseybat's mother recommended me My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante; I generally trust the Batmother's recs, and she said that the books were really engaging even if not amazingly well written, plus I like books about deep friendships.
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Date: 2017-02-10 04:02 am (UTC)