Judge My Upcoming Baihe TBR!
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My baihe TBR for the next couple of months or so is looking like this:
Feel free to point at, laugh at or otherwise judge my reading decisions, and tell me which one you think I should read first (although it's probably going to be the alpaca one, since several people have already expressed curiosity about it).
- Something I Need to Tell You (有件事想告诉你, pinyin: you jian shi xiang gaosu ni) by Ning Yuan (宁远), which is tagged as sci-fi and seems to be a time-travel/time loop/parallel universes situation.
- A Difficult Woman (难缠, pinyin: nan chan) by Yu Shuang (鱼霜), a contemporary romance in which a woman moves out of the house she shares with her girlfriend after discovering that the latter has been cheating on her, only to move into a house owned by her girlfriend's arch-rival. The premise doesn't sound particularly gripping (understatement of the year), but I do own the uncensored print edition, so it seems a shame not to read it, and I did like a novel I previously read by the same author, so.
- Serenade of Tranquility (清平乐, pinyin: qingping yue) by Ruo Hua Ci Shu (若花辞树), a historical novel with (I believe) a tragic ending. I like this author's historical writing and I liked the first 60% of her best-known novel Minister Xie (谢相, pinyin: xie xiang), and I've been meaning to read more work by her.
- An Endless Story (有终, pinyin: you zhong) by Xiao Xie Chun Feng (小谢春风), a crime thriller. Picked it mainly because I wanted something modern but genre (as opposed to contemporary romance), and also it's significantly shorter than everything else on this list. Plus, the publisher of the print edition had the temerity to release a 'special Christmas edition' mere months after releasing the standard edition, so I wanted to see if it was worth all that hyping up.
- In Love with a Substitute (和替身谈恋爱, pinyin: he tishen tan lian'ai) by Xiao Tan Luan (小檀栾), a quick transmigration novel. Artbaited (which I rarely am) into putting this on my TBR by the audio drama adaptation, which seems to be aiming to create a new poster for each 'world'.
- The Little Alpaca (小羊驼, pinyin: xiao yangtuo) by Wu Liao Dao Di (无聊到底), where the protagonist transmigrates into a historical novel... and into the body of the villainess' pet alpaca (could technically be her pet vicuña instead, I guess. Someone previously asked me how on earth an alpaca/vicuña got to historical China, and all I could do was shrug and say, the same way potatoes and chili peppers got to historical China in The Untamed).
Feel free to point at, laugh at or otherwise judge my reading decisions, and tell me which one you think I should read first (although it's probably going to be the alpaca one, since several people have already expressed curiosity about it).