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larryhammerIt feels like I've been reading stuff, but all I've finished has been comics:
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl volumes 1-5, Ryan North and Erica Henderson. Oh my, what fun. I had previously tried the stand-alone arc The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl and the Great Lakes Avengers, which was ... not good. It also wasn't written by North. (I think I see the problem here.) This is much, much better. And funnier. Squirrel Girl is, if you haven't met this corner of the Marvel 'verse, a computer science major who secretly has all the powers of both squirrel and girl. She is loosely affiliated with the Avengers, and not just because she Twitter-trolls Tony Stark, but these issues focus on her solo work, where she wins both through having the proportional strength of a squirrel her size and through radical empathy. Highly recommended.
DC Super Hero Girls volumes Finals Crisis, Hits and Myths, Summer Olympus, and Past Times at Super Hero High, Shea Fontana and Yancey Labat. Also fun, if not as. I have, at request, read these aloud to TBD multiple times over the past few months. They may be my preferred way of consuming this media franchise, despite the occasionally stiff artwork.
In progress:
The King's Avatar (全职高手), Butterfly Blue (蝴蝶蓝), a Chinese web novel about video gaming. Not what I wanted to be hooked on, but it goes down easily. Have read 120 chapters, which is about a sixth of what's been translated.
And poetry from various anthologies, many of modern/contemporary verse from the 1920s and '30s -- it is fascinating to compare them to what current anthologies think is the good/important stuff. But more of that later, after I've read more.
---L.
Subject quote from the "Creature Report" song from the Octonauts.
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl volumes 1-5, Ryan North and Erica Henderson. Oh my, what fun. I had previously tried the stand-alone arc The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl and the Great Lakes Avengers, which was ... not good. It also wasn't written by North. (I think I see the problem here.) This is much, much better. And funnier. Squirrel Girl is, if you haven't met this corner of the Marvel 'verse, a computer science major who secretly has all the powers of both squirrel and girl. She is loosely affiliated with the Avengers, and not just because she Twitter-trolls Tony Stark, but these issues focus on her solo work, where she wins both through having the proportional strength of a squirrel her size and through radical empathy. Highly recommended.
DC Super Hero Girls volumes Finals Crisis, Hits and Myths, Summer Olympus, and Past Times at Super Hero High, Shea Fontana and Yancey Labat. Also fun, if not as. I have, at request, read these aloud to TBD multiple times over the past few months. They may be my preferred way of consuming this media franchise, despite the occasionally stiff artwork.
In progress:
The King's Avatar (全职高手), Butterfly Blue (蝴蝶蓝), a Chinese web novel about video gaming. Not what I wanted to be hooked on, but it goes down easily. Have read 120 chapters, which is about a sixth of what's been translated.
And poetry from various anthologies, many of modern/contemporary verse from the 1920s and '30s -- it is fascinating to compare them to what current anthologies think is the good/important stuff. But more of that later, after I've read more.
---L.
Subject quote from the "Creature Report" song from the Octonauts.
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Date: 25 October 2017 05:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 25 October 2017 06:00 pm (UTC)Why wait?
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Date: 25 October 2017 08:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 25 October 2017 09:10 pm (UTC)Bah! The TBR is unbeatable anyway, why pretend otherwise?
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Date: 26 October 2017 02:46 pm (UTC)I'm PRETENDING.
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Date: 26 October 2017 02:58 pm (UTC)... so which books are you playing?