Reading Wednesday

Currently reading: All Systems Red by Martha Wells. First book in the Murderbot Diaries series. I've had people reccing this to me for quite a while now, and... very glad that I finally got around to it! I'm really enjoying this - Murderbot's narrative voice is so fun to read, it's so very human and relatable and at other times so very not, and I'm enjoying the general plot of "survey team on an uninhabited planet, things go horribly wrong, something terrible is afoot, Oh No" etc etc - essentially I'm 2/3rds of the way through this 150-page novel and I find myself thinking that I'd happily read five hundred more pages of this. ...So I guess it's good that there's more books in the series.

Reading next: I have no idea, but here's what I have out from the library right now -

Us Against You by Fredrik Backman. Hockey rivalry in a small town. I've liked this author's other books, so....

Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston. I've heard mixed reviews, and it's normally not my genere of choice. However: 1. It's the kind of book I wish would've been available to me when I was a teenager and 2. I've heard rumours that it's actually a US/UK Hetalia fanfic with the serial numbers filed off, and not gonna' lie, I'm curious.

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir. Lesbian necromancers? In space? Or something? I don't know, but I have a feeling I'll either love this one or hate it.

The Painter of Silence by Georgina Harding. Some kind of drama set in 1950s Romania. High chance of being terrible, but who knows.

The Winter Soldier by Daniel Mason. WWI drama set in a field hospital in the Carpathians. Yet another one that I picked up purely for the setting.