Wednesday! Whatcha been Readin', Eh?
Dec. 20th, 2017 08:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lydamorehouseOnce again, I don't think I consumed a single actual novel, but a lot of manga have been read and enjoyed. This week, I read:
I also read the preview copy of Nnedi Okorafor's Black Panther for my review job at Twin Cities Geek. In fact, today, after I do the dishes and start the bread to go with tonight's jambalaya, I need to sit down and write a review for that. I also still never turned in my review of As the Crow Flies, so I need to do that, as well.
My other book related news is that I've LOST a library book somewhere in my house. I took out all 9 volumes of My Neighbor Seki, and I can't find volume one ANYWHERE. I thinking that I might just read the first volume on-line and then return the others, so that I can focus on finding that book? I hope that I don't have to confess to my colleagues at work that I managed to lose a book. That would be so embarrassing! I'm hoping it will turn up over the holidays. I have a bad feeling that it's somewhere in the bedroom, which could mean that I might have to clean... (drum roll, please).... UNDER THE BED.
The horror!
I'd love to hear what you've read this week or what you will be reading over the holiday break.
Sign Language by Ker, a manhwa (the Korean version of a manga, usually full-color and in web comic format) about the lust-affair between a part-time cafe employee and his deaf boss.
What Did You Eat Yesterday?/ Kinou Nani Tabeta? (Vol. 12) by Fumi Yoshinaga, a manga about cooking and eating and two gay guys for whom food is clearly their "love language."
I Hear the Sunspot / Hidamari ga Kikoeru by Yuki Fumino, a manga about a college note-taker who works for a deaf student, and their compelling slowburn love affair.
Breath (Vol. 1) by Chifumi Ochi, a manga about a jerk and the guy he blackmails. (Can you tell I didn't really like this one?)
What Did You Eat Yesterday?/ Kinou Nani Tabeta? (Vol. 12) by Fumi Yoshinaga, a manga about cooking and eating and two gay guys for whom food is clearly their "love language."
I Hear the Sunspot / Hidamari ga Kikoeru by Yuki Fumino, a manga about a college note-taker who works for a deaf student, and their compelling slowburn love affair.
Breath (Vol. 1) by Chifumi Ochi, a manga about a jerk and the guy he blackmails. (Can you tell I didn't really like this one?)
I also read the preview copy of Nnedi Okorafor's Black Panther for my review job at Twin Cities Geek. In fact, today, after I do the dishes and start the bread to go with tonight's jambalaya, I need to sit down and write a review for that. I also still never turned in my review of As the Crow Flies, so I need to do that, as well.
My other book related news is that I've LOST a library book somewhere in my house. I took out all 9 volumes of My Neighbor Seki, and I can't find volume one ANYWHERE. I thinking that I might just read the first volume on-line and then return the others, so that I can focus on finding that book? I hope that I don't have to confess to my colleagues at work that I managed to lose a book. That would be so embarrassing! I'm hoping it will turn up over the holidays. I have a bad feeling that it's somewhere in the bedroom, which could mean that I might have to clean... (drum roll, please).... UNDER THE BED.
The horror!
I'd love to hear what you've read this week or what you will be reading over the holiday break.
no subject
Date: 2017-12-21 12:59 am (UTC)What I did seem to need was Bob Proehl's A Hundred Thousand Worlds, as I tore through the library's copy, then went online to order it for my ereader, as I know I'll want to reread it. Not so much sci-fi as scifi-adjacent. The main characters are an actress from a famous SF series and her son, who are making their way from New York to LA to his estranged father by appearing at comic conventions. So lots of the characters are comic book writers and artists, at least three are queer, no one is really more awful than a little self-centered except for the one person who is criminally insane. Lots of basically decent people in convoluted, interconnected lives. And a wonderful skewed look at the world of comics publishing.
Since I finished that, I've been grazing through Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology, which is great timing, as we finally managed to get to Thor: Ragnarok yesterday.
no subject
Date: 2017-12-21 07:33 am (UTC)We've all lost library books somewhere at home. Your colleagues will understand.
Let's see, I have like fifty books checked out at the moment. I expect that I'll finish We wear the mask, stories of people passing, and at some point I'll read the new Lee Child/Reacher book. And probably a couple of the graphic novels, too.