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Reading Wednesday
Nov. 6th, 2019 12:56 pm Not reading much except the novel right now, though I'm happy to report that I'm making very good progress on that--with some caveats. I mean, I am going to have to go back through this whole thing and make the emotional arc more cohesive. Right now it feels very rollercoaster-y. I may let my beta readers tell me what they want, though, because what I really need to do is hang an ending on this thing tomorrow and Friday, so that I can give my readers the weekend (at least) to get it back to me.
I'm a little bit behind on that because 1) last night a dear old friend texted "what's for dinner?" and so we had a guest until late evening, which was lovely, honestly, as I haven't seen him in a long time and it was good to reconnect, and 2) Word kept crashing on me this morning until I ran some diagnostics and deleted a bunch of superfluous junk. (Man, PCs. I have to admit, I was spoiled as a Mac user. I'm not used to having to have this constant vigilance for spyware. It is definitely going to cut down on my manga reading. So many of my usual pirate site are riddled with spyware, and I have to spend the morning after cleaning all the crap out that automatically downloaded itself--and yes, before you yell at me, I have all the firewalls and security programs installed and running.)
But, anyway.
I had picked up a copy of the first volume of Knights of Sidonia / Sidonia no Kishi by Neihei Tsutomu, which is apparently some kind of cult classic, maybe? I wasn't terribly excited by it, even though it has a lot of the things I normally adore, like SPAAAAACE. There is a character in this manga who is non-binary that I wanted more about/from, but Neihei-sensei really wanted to have mechs fighting space aliens, which is cool, but I guess I just wasn't entirely in the mood for it this week.
I think I reported last week that I'd read Black Torch, which I'd also picked up at the library, though as a check out. That one is byTakaki Tsuyoshi.
I'm part way through an old manga that I had lying around, called Waq Waq by Fujisaki Ryu. It's more science fiction, though it takes place in some strange future where somehow it's become rare for humans to have red blood (we apparently have black blood now. Scientists in the house? How??) But, regardless there are sentient machines and evil machines and already a brave sacrifice... yet, I'm not sure how much more I plan to read.
I may have to go back to porn.
Not much else to report. Today is a busy day for Mason. He's got a rocketry thing he's doing that is actually a promo/teaser for the robotics club (nothing recruits nerds to your club more than rocket launches, apparently,) and then, I have to pick him up some fast food and watch him shovel it in, while I drive him directly from his rocketry thing to the Science Museum where he'll be working on something for his KAYSC environmental justice program until 7 pm.
I remember being EXACTLY like this, only with theater, when I was his age--dashing from event to event, as it were.
Mason is far smarter than I was at his age, though, because he's already pre-cancelled something he had going on Friday, because he deemed it "just too much, given the week I have." I would have done ALL THE THINGS and then gotten sick from exhaustion. So, good on him. Self-regulation (especially of the things you LOVE) is a good skill.
That's about all I know.
How's by all of you?
I'm a little bit behind on that because 1) last night a dear old friend texted "what's for dinner?" and so we had a guest until late evening, which was lovely, honestly, as I haven't seen him in a long time and it was good to reconnect, and 2) Word kept crashing on me this morning until I ran some diagnostics and deleted a bunch of superfluous junk. (Man, PCs. I have to admit, I was spoiled as a Mac user. I'm not used to having to have this constant vigilance for spyware. It is definitely going to cut down on my manga reading. So many of my usual pirate site are riddled with spyware, and I have to spend the morning after cleaning all the crap out that automatically downloaded itself--and yes, before you yell at me, I have all the firewalls and security programs installed and running.)
But, anyway.
I had picked up a copy of the first volume of Knights of Sidonia / Sidonia no Kishi by Neihei Tsutomu, which is apparently some kind of cult classic, maybe? I wasn't terribly excited by it, even though it has a lot of the things I normally adore, like SPAAAAACE. There is a character in this manga who is non-binary that I wanted more about/from, but Neihei-sensei really wanted to have mechs fighting space aliens, which is cool, but I guess I just wasn't entirely in the mood for it this week.
I think I reported last week that I'd read Black Torch, which I'd also picked up at the library, though as a check out. That one is byTakaki Tsuyoshi.
I'm part way through an old manga that I had lying around, called Waq Waq by Fujisaki Ryu. It's more science fiction, though it takes place in some strange future where somehow it's become rare for humans to have red blood (we apparently have black blood now. Scientists in the house? How??) But, regardless there are sentient machines and evil machines and already a brave sacrifice... yet, I'm not sure how much more I plan to read.
I may have to go back to porn.
Not much else to report. Today is a busy day for Mason. He's got a rocketry thing he's doing that is actually a promo/teaser for the robotics club (nothing recruits nerds to your club more than rocket launches, apparently,) and then, I have to pick him up some fast food and watch him shovel it in, while I drive him directly from his rocketry thing to the Science Museum where he'll be working on something for his KAYSC environmental justice program until 7 pm.
I remember being EXACTLY like this, only with theater, when I was his age--dashing from event to event, as it were.
Mason is far smarter than I was at his age, though, because he's already pre-cancelled something he had going on Friday, because he deemed it "just too much, given the week I have." I would have done ALL THE THINGS and then gotten sick from exhaustion. So, good on him. Self-regulation (especially of the things you LOVE) is a good skill.
That's about all I know.
How's by all of you?