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Oh, right -- Reading Wednesday is a thing, isn't it. Though I can't give a very good accounting here -- I haven't been tracking very well, the past couple months. But what I can remember:
Read aloud:
The last three volumes of that Monkey King adaptation -- Spoiler: they do indeed make it to the West. And back, even. Significantly, we haven't reread any parts of it since completing it, hmmm.
Eight volmes of The Adventures of Tintin, story and art Herge -- including a couple very battered copies from my childhood. A couple have been reread eagerly -- of the top of my head, The Shooting Star and Cigars of the Pharoah. Eaglet's favorite parts are Thomson and Thompson -- and they are highly interested whether anybody can actually understand Snowy's comments. They are especially interested in finding the two-part journey to the moon, and anything taking place in China.
Bone, story and art Jeff Smith, volumes 1-4 (we started volume 5 over breakfast this morning) -- and immediately "Stupid, stupid rat creatures!" became a household catchphrase. Not sure how much of Phony's schemes are understood, but they seem to be enjoying the adventure.
(Not read by me, but thanks to the current bedtime routine, I've heard 14 different Cam Jansen audiobooks downloaded from the local library at least three times through.)
Read by me:
Gourmet of Another World, Li Hongtian -- Chinese fantasy, natch. This is completely ridiculous and I swallowed it down like hotcakes. Our protagonist is a young chef transmigrated from our world into a cultivation fantasy setting, with a System that gives him cheats and the mission of becoming the God of Cooking. So, yes, there are martial arts cooking battles. The protagonist is a hoot -- he doesn't care about battles, he only wants to turn monsters into ingredients. Caught up with the translation with chapter 780.
Martial World, Cocooned Cow -- Cultivation fantasy adventure. It is not very demanding, but the author is very skilled at the mechanics of the genre, especially managing tension and pacing, and with laying the groundwork for each successive stage of action in ways that make hardly anything feel like an ass-pull. I am amused that the protagonist, Lin Ming, has the most generic name possible -- it's the Chinese equivalent of John Smith. Am around 1500 chapters in, out of 2300-odd total. So a big lift, yeah, but the translation is at least complete (as is the nearly as long sequel) and so far of pretty good quality. Content warning: several incidents of sexual violence baked into the worldbuilding, always used to flag villainous antagonists. This thins out after about 600 chapters.
I was reading Night Ranger still, but stalled out around chapter 440 in the middle of side quest within a side quest within a side quest -- I think it was three deep? -- plus I stopped reading on my phone as much as possible.
Plus kept current on a couple serials, and read a few anthologies of Chinese poetry in translation.
Anyone have anything to rec?
---L.
Subject quote from Solsbury Hill, Peter Gabriel.
Read aloud:
The last three volumes of that Monkey King adaptation -- Spoiler: they do indeed make it to the West. And back, even. Significantly, we haven't reread any parts of it since completing it, hmmm.
Eight volmes of The Adventures of Tintin, story and art Herge -- including a couple very battered copies from my childhood. A couple have been reread eagerly -- of the top of my head, The Shooting Star and Cigars of the Pharoah. Eaglet's favorite parts are Thomson and Thompson -- and they are highly interested whether anybody can actually understand Snowy's comments. They are especially interested in finding the two-part journey to the moon, and anything taking place in China.
Bone, story and art Jeff Smith, volumes 1-4 (we started volume 5 over breakfast this morning) -- and immediately "Stupid, stupid rat creatures!" became a household catchphrase. Not sure how much of Phony's schemes are understood, but they seem to be enjoying the adventure.
(Not read by me, but thanks to the current bedtime routine, I've heard 14 different Cam Jansen audiobooks downloaded from the local library at least three times through.)
Read by me:
Gourmet of Another World, Li Hongtian -- Chinese fantasy, natch. This is completely ridiculous and I swallowed it down like hotcakes. Our protagonist is a young chef transmigrated from our world into a cultivation fantasy setting, with a System that gives him cheats and the mission of becoming the God of Cooking. So, yes, there are martial arts cooking battles. The protagonist is a hoot -- he doesn't care about battles, he only wants to turn monsters into ingredients. Caught up with the translation with chapter 780.
Martial World, Cocooned Cow -- Cultivation fantasy adventure. It is not very demanding, but the author is very skilled at the mechanics of the genre, especially managing tension and pacing, and with laying the groundwork for each successive stage of action in ways that make hardly anything feel like an ass-pull. I am amused that the protagonist, Lin Ming, has the most generic name possible -- it's the Chinese equivalent of John Smith. Am around 1500 chapters in, out of 2300-odd total. So a big lift, yeah, but the translation is at least complete (as is the nearly as long sequel) and so far of pretty good quality. Content warning: several incidents of sexual violence baked into the worldbuilding, always used to flag villainous antagonists. This thins out after about 600 chapters.
I was reading Night Ranger still, but stalled out around chapter 440 in the middle of side quest within a side quest within a side quest -- I think it was three deep? -- plus I stopped reading on my phone as much as possible.
Plus kept current on a couple serials, and read a few anthologies of Chinese poetry in translation.
Anyone have anything to rec?
---L.
Subject quote from Solsbury Hill, Peter Gabriel.