Reading Record 45

 So, just finished reading Golden Terrace, volume 2, by Cang Wu Bin Bai.  Probably should have taken a lot longer to finish it, actually, but then the plot hit a point where I couldn't stop until I was sure things would be okay, and a half hour reading session turned into a two hour reading session.  😅

Anyway, as a much more grounded, political drama, this one is a subgenre that I don't usually read.  And I definitely forgot some of the finer details (and character names) from the first volume in the months in between reading them.  😰  Not sure if that is just "I have a terrible memory" or if that is totally normal and acceptable since I finished the first part in mid-July and have read 25 other books since then.  (More than that, really, since I don't count graphic novels and such with a full number...)  Plus I've played who knows how many games with engrossing stories, watched a lot of anime (two episodes before bed is part of my wind-my-brain-down-for-the-night routine), and done a lot of writing of my own, so my limited brain power is spread sorta thin, so maybe it's only to be expected that I'd forget things?  🤷🏻‍♀️

Well.  Anyway.

The tone of the second volume was a bit more military and less political than the first one, but otherwise there's not much to report that I didn't report the first time.  Not as fantastical as what I'm used to, but the characters, their relationship, and the story surrounding them were excellent and a satisfying read.  (And among the bonus stories was even one that let a tragic gay couple (who were never even seen "on screen" in the main novel) find a happy ending in another setting, which made me quite happy.  They deserved that happy ending!)

Hmm.  Did that count as a spoiler?  (Then again, would anyone even want to write an alternate setting in which a loving couple failed to find happiness a second time?  Seems like that would be torture for both the reader and the writer!)

Anyway, this record is mostly just for myself, so it's not like I need to say anything else anyway.

Original language:  Chinese

In other news(?), I have fallen behind in posting about my November writing challenge results.

When I last posted, my word count was 15536.  That was on...um...Thursday?  Yeah, Thursday.

So, on Friday, my total was 17704, meaning I wrote 2168 words on Friday.

Yesterday, my total was 19558, so yesterday I only wrote 1854 words.  😭  Failed to break 2k.  Pathetic.

Hopefully, today will be better, but who knows?  I keep slamming into walls in all my writing projects.  😭  (I'll hopefully remember to edit the results to the end of this post...hopefully.)