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larryhammerReading Wednesday is happening again. Yay reading.
Finished:
The Murderbot Diaries series, being All Systems Red (reread), Artificial Condition (reread), Rogue Protocol (reread), and Exit Strategy (newread), Martha Wells -- I love this stuff. I ♥ Murderbot and its slow stumbling progress towards social autonomy (it already had personal autonomy) and its caustic sense of humor. The Hugo+Nebula+Locus trifecta for the first installment was deserved, and the others are all just as good. Go thou, find and read these.
Hilda and the Stone Forest, Hilda and the Troll, Hilda and the Midnight Giant, and Hilda and the Bird Parade, being #5, #1, #2, and #3 of the series, story and art by Luke Pearson -- All both read to TBD and reread by myself. Read in this order because that's how the library holds came through. FWIW, Stone Forest takes place just after the end of the recent Netflix adaptation, Troll was expanded into the first episode (it's disappointingly short), and Midnight Giant & Bird Parade were exactly adapted as episodes two and three, respectively. All are as wonderful as the adaptation -- excellent all-ages adventure comics in a fantasy world that's slightly sideways from ours. I especially like Stone Forest, where Hilda ends up on an adventure (first suggested in Bird Parade) with her mother, who is neither clueless nor completely clued in, and in either case rarely lets her instinct to protect her daughter make her act stupidly. Be warned: that volume ends on a cliffhanger, and the next book is still (after a few years) nowhere in sight. We're also still waiting on #4 (which looks to correspond to the show's last episode) but I expect the library will be quicker about that.
Other new read-alouds to TBD included an even handful of early-reader through middle-grade level nonfiction (don't have the titles handy) about castles and knights* and arms and armor, most with a tight medieval Europe focus; an educational graphic novel(ette) by Ted Rechlin accurately titled Tyrannosaurus Rex; and the first Super Fly adventure by Todd H. Doodler (competently written, thoroughly by-the-numbers story, took us several days to get through).
In progress:
Way of Choices, Mao Ni -- I love this novel's focus on consequences and moralities. This has more of a concern with Confucian ethics (as opposed to only Confucian social forms) than other xianxia/xuanhuan novels I've read, and highlights aspects of the master/disciple relationship I've seen only in core wuxia. Up to chapter 741.
Pogo volume 1: Through the Wild Blue Wonder, Walt Kelly, to somewhat less than ⅔, savoring it at the rate of a couple weeks an evening.
DNF:
Skyfire Avenue (天火大道), Tang Jia San Shao (唐家三少) -- I appreciated that the protagonist starts out a developed grown-up and is faithful to the memory of his missing-presumed-dead wife, and the fusion of xuanhuan and science-fiction elements was interesting. However, comma, the snobbery of the aristocracy of talent was off-putting and I didn't have enough interest to stick with it after it was clear the supposedly professional protagonist had No Idea how to competently bodyguard someone. Gave up at chapter 40.
* Knights have joined the stable of recurring bedtime story requests. I am determined to work in at least one girl squire or lady knight into tonight's tale. I've already done a Hamster Princess crossover.
---L.
Subject quote from Call It Dreaming, Iron & Wine.
Finished:
The Murderbot Diaries series, being All Systems Red (reread), Artificial Condition (reread), Rogue Protocol (reread), and Exit Strategy (newread), Martha Wells -- I love this stuff. I ♥ Murderbot and its slow stumbling progress towards social autonomy (it already had personal autonomy) and its caustic sense of humor. The Hugo+Nebula+Locus trifecta for the first installment was deserved, and the others are all just as good. Go thou, find and read these.
Hilda and the Stone Forest, Hilda and the Troll, Hilda and the Midnight Giant, and Hilda and the Bird Parade, being #5, #1, #2, and #3 of the series, story and art by Luke Pearson -- All both read to TBD and reread by myself. Read in this order because that's how the library holds came through. FWIW, Stone Forest takes place just after the end of the recent Netflix adaptation, Troll was expanded into the first episode (it's disappointingly short), and Midnight Giant & Bird Parade were exactly adapted as episodes two and three, respectively. All are as wonderful as the adaptation -- excellent all-ages adventure comics in a fantasy world that's slightly sideways from ours. I especially like Stone Forest, where Hilda ends up on an adventure (first suggested in Bird Parade) with her mother, who is neither clueless nor completely clued in, and in either case rarely lets her instinct to protect her daughter make her act stupidly. Be warned: that volume ends on a cliffhanger, and the next book is still (after a few years) nowhere in sight. We're also still waiting on #4 (which looks to correspond to the show's last episode) but I expect the library will be quicker about that.
Other new read-alouds to TBD included an even handful of early-reader through middle-grade level nonfiction (don't have the titles handy) about castles and knights* and arms and armor, most with a tight medieval Europe focus; an educational graphic novel(ette) by Ted Rechlin accurately titled Tyrannosaurus Rex; and the first Super Fly adventure by Todd H. Doodler (competently written, thoroughly by-the-numbers story, took us several days to get through).
In progress:
Way of Choices, Mao Ni -- I love this novel's focus on consequences and moralities. This has more of a concern with Confucian ethics (as opposed to only Confucian social forms) than other xianxia/xuanhuan novels I've read, and highlights aspects of the master/disciple relationship I've seen only in core wuxia. Up to chapter 741.
Pogo volume 1: Through the Wild Blue Wonder, Walt Kelly, to somewhat less than ⅔, savoring it at the rate of a couple weeks an evening.
DNF:
Skyfire Avenue (天火大道), Tang Jia San Shao (唐家三少) -- I appreciated that the protagonist starts out a developed grown-up and is faithful to the memory of his missing-presumed-dead wife, and the fusion of xuanhuan and science-fiction elements was interesting. However, comma, the snobbery of the aristocracy of talent was off-putting and I didn't have enough interest to stick with it after it was clear the supposedly professional protagonist had No Idea how to competently bodyguard someone. Gave up at chapter 40.
* Knights have joined the stable of recurring bedtime story requests. I am determined to work in at least one girl squire or lady knight into tonight's tale. I've already done a Hamster Princess crossover.
---L.
Subject quote from Call It Dreaming, Iron & Wine.
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Date: 18 October 2018 02:55 pm (UTC)