And with a green and yellow melancholy

(This is part of a series I'm gonna do this week, detailing Things I Want to Experience this year: books to read, plays/shows/movies to watch, games to play, music to listen to, etc. These lists are by no means exclusive and being a flighty creature it is likely I either won't get to all of these items or may wind up reading other things instead of/in addition to the ones listed below, but I'm gonna try to get to these and want to look back at the end of the year and see how successful I was at getting through these things.

Base rules on this project: No more than 10 things can be listed. Series can be listed as Series in order to not tie up the entire list with multiple entries.Experiencing at least one thing in a series will count as fulfilling the item. If it's something I started in 2021 but did not finish, it will be put on the list as Continuing: [Name]; otherwise, the item is new to me.) 

The Grishaverse series – Leigh Bardugo: It took me by surprise how much I enjoyed the TV show for this. I had the first books in this series (and the first two books in Six of Crows) that I bought when they were on sale, prior to the final books release. I’ve noticed a lot of the fanfic for the TV fandom mixes and matches canon with the books, so to really write in this fandom (and I’d like to), I think I gotta read the book. So let’s read the book(s)!

Working on a Song – Anais Mitchell: I am probably the only Hadestown obsessive on Earth who has not yet read this, and I really should. I’ve been avoiding it because I’ve been Saving It For a Bad Day, but honestly, I really need to stop that mindset. I can always re-read it. Might get some good ideas for fic out of it.

The Book of Life – Deborah Harkness: I read the first two books in this series and dropped off before the third. I didn’t particular like the books, but I really like the TV show (which, for the most part, cut the chaff, and boy howdy did these books have a lot of chaff mixed in with truly fun worldbuilding). Before the third series comes out, I’d like to read the third book, especially because I think the third season will deviate quite a bit from the original book.

A Touch of Darkness series – Scarlett St. Clair: Is this a Hades/Persephone modern AU romance novel? Yes. But look, I need some simple, easy books, and this is fun.  I enjoy that it’s got some nifty, fun world-building (gods having secret horns! Arcane magic! Secrets!). I finished the first novel but there’s a second and third now so I’d like to finish it.