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larryhammerIt's been over a month since I posted for Reading Wednesday? That would explain why I looks like I've read a lot, despite being wrapped up in book production.
Finished:
Hilda and the Black Hound, #4 of the series, story and art Luke Pearson -- Read aloud to TBD. I think it's symptomatic that several small elements were expanded into separate episodes of the Netflix adaptation, with about 2/3 of it becoming the final two episodes with very little expansion. #5 handles a similarly ambitious story with better aplomb, even with a series of one-off adventures shown in fragments over a couple pages. Still quite enjoyed -- and we then reread all the volumes in order twice through and some a few times more. More like this please!
Any recs?
Zita the Space Girl, Legends of Zita the Space Girl, and Return of Zita the Space Girl, story and art by Ben Hatke, being the complete trilogy -- Read aloud to TBD a couple times through. This is awesomesauce all-ages adventure.
More like this too?
Search for Atlantis, #7 of DC Super Hero Girls -- Read aloud to TBD. A pretty good installment (yay Raven with full-throttle snark finally entering Super Hero High School, which sets up a running gag about the name of the Teen Titans) but I think not having seen the Legends of Atlantis movie, which this is set immediately after, meant we stumbled on a few gaps.
Monkey King, adaptation by Wei Dong Chen, art by Chao Peng, volume 7 -- Read aloud to TBD. This covers the episode where Wukong is expelled from the party for the first time. Good job by the adaptors making it clear how poorly Wukong hides that he jumps at the chance to return. Volume 8 should arrive soon.
Pogo volume 1: Through the Wild Blue Wonder, Walt Kelly -- “What yo’ doin’, Uncle Albert?” “Packin’ a lunch in the mandolin like any sensible explorer.” Natural. Not that sensible describes any of the characters here. I've started volume 2, Bone Fide Balderdash, covering the next two years of the original syndicated strip, but haven't gotten far.
(That … is a lot of comics.)
In progress:
When a Snail Falls in Love (如果蜗牛有爱情), Ding Mo (丁墨) -- Contemporary police procedural/romance. I'm enjoying this a lot, but by way of content warning, it has not just a workplace romance but specifically mentor/intern romance. Xu Xu is ♥. Up to chapter 39 (of 70 long-for-web-serial chapters).
I also read a handful of chapters of Way of Choices to ch745, and the openings of a couple other Chinese fantasies which I seem to have not jotted down. So it goes.
---L.
Subject quote from Stanzas—April, 1814, Percy Shelley.
Finished:
Hilda and the Black Hound, #4 of the series, story and art Luke Pearson -- Read aloud to TBD. I think it's symptomatic that several small elements were expanded into separate episodes of the Netflix adaptation, with about 2/3 of it becoming the final two episodes with very little expansion. #5 handles a similarly ambitious story with better aplomb, even with a series of one-off adventures shown in fragments over a couple pages. Still quite enjoyed -- and we then reread all the volumes in order twice through and some a few times more. More like this please!
Any recs?
Zita the Space Girl, Legends of Zita the Space Girl, and Return of Zita the Space Girl, story and art by Ben Hatke, being the complete trilogy -- Read aloud to TBD a couple times through. This is awesomesauce all-ages adventure.
More like this too?
Search for Atlantis, #7 of DC Super Hero Girls -- Read aloud to TBD. A pretty good installment (yay Raven with full-throttle snark finally entering Super Hero High School, which sets up a running gag about the name of the Teen Titans) but I think not having seen the Legends of Atlantis movie, which this is set immediately after, meant we stumbled on a few gaps.
Monkey King, adaptation by Wei Dong Chen, art by Chao Peng, volume 7 -- Read aloud to TBD. This covers the episode where Wukong is expelled from the party for the first time. Good job by the adaptors making it clear how poorly Wukong hides that he jumps at the chance to return. Volume 8 should arrive soon.
Pogo volume 1: Through the Wild Blue Wonder, Walt Kelly -- “What yo’ doin’, Uncle Albert?” “Packin’ a lunch in the mandolin like any sensible explorer.” Natural. Not that sensible describes any of the characters here. I've started volume 2, Bone Fide Balderdash, covering the next two years of the original syndicated strip, but haven't gotten far.
(That … is a lot of comics.)
In progress:
When a Snail Falls in Love (如果蜗牛有爱情), Ding Mo (丁墨) -- Contemporary police procedural/romance. I'm enjoying this a lot, but by way of content warning, it has not just a workplace romance but specifically mentor/intern romance. Xu Xu is ♥. Up to chapter 39 (of 70 long-for-web-serial chapters).
I also read a handful of chapters of Way of Choices to ch745, and the openings of a couple other Chinese fantasies which I seem to have not jotted down. So it goes.
---L.
Subject quote from Stanzas—April, 1814, Percy Shelley.
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Date: 12 December 2018 06:35 pm (UTC)What is the significance of the snail in this title? (My first assumption was an introverted person, but then I realized it could be a proverb I didn't know, or a totally different metaphor.)
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Date: 12 December 2018 07:02 pm (UTC)ETA: There is, btw, a drama adaptation, but I haven't looked it up yet.
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Date: 12 December 2018 08:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 12 December 2018 09:51 pm (UTC)Nimona is in TBR by the bed -- we want to check for age targeting first; ditto Lumberjanes, which Stevenson was also in for.
Will check out Amelia Rules and Rapunzel's Revenge. Since the latter's by the authors of the Princess in Black, that has definite possibilities. Thanks!
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Date: 12 December 2018 09:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 12 December 2018 10:07 pm (UTC)Ha! Worth knowing. Thanks.