Reading Wednesday
Mar. 18th, 2015 11:30 pmWhat did you finish reading
Not much, sadly. My brainspace has been occupied by various things this week so I haven't been reading as much as I wanted to.
On the other hand, given that I scored bingo last week, I'm cutting myself some slack.
Another thing that dug into my reading time was that on Saturday I decided that from now on I was going to comment on a fic a day, if I could manage it. That lasted about three days, because yesterday night my Internet decided to commit mutiny and refuse to do its job, so I couldn't do anything. I commented on two fics today to catch up. I expect to struggle somewhat with adding this to my routine for a while, but then get used to it.
( Said fics )
1001, by Sanya Anwar (art and scenario) (issues 1 & 2): (You can find them for free here.) This is a retelling of "One Thousand and One Arabian Nights" that so far hasn't gotten to the set-up of that tale and I have to say I'm greatly enjoying seeing what Scheherazade's life was like before all that went down. Although I love Scheherazade dearly, I think my favourite character is Dunyazade. SHE LIKES ALCHEMY! Truly a girl after my own heart. issue 3 is supposed to come out April 2015 and I'm excited for that.
Ant-Man #001 & #002, by Nick Spencer (scenario) and Ramon Rosanas (art): I've been terrible at following comics lately and so I'm trying to get back in the groove. I wish there was some sort of something that warned you when a new issue of a book you follow came out.
As for the comics themselves, I don't really have anything to say about them. I'm mostly reading for Cassie and so far there really hasn't been a lot of her (although she's kept the makeover Doom gave her, which what). I really hope Bank Lady who is totally a (former?) superhero shows up again, because she's awesome and I have to admit that Scott's solution to his housing problem is kind of hilarious.
What If: Age of Ultron #003, by Joe Keatinge (scenario) and Mico Suayan & Raffaele Ienco (art): A Marvel one-shot in an alternate univers. AN ALTERNATE UNIVERSE IN WHICH NATASHA WIELDS MJOLNIR. I don't feel like I need a better reason than that to like this issue.
( No, but for serious, NATASHA WIELDS MJOLNIR. (Falcon is one of her Valkyries.) )
Hum, I think five issues of comics can be counted as one book? That's usually how many issues are in a tpb, right? In that case, I'm count this... "anthology" as "author who shares your initials" (close enough, anyway) on the Random Card.
This makes 0/25 on the Mix'n'Match Card (unchanged from last week), 16/25 on the Random Card (+1 from last week) and 2/25 on the Serious Card (unchanged from last week) for![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
hamsterwoman's reading bingo.
( Details )
What are you reading
Still stalled on The Art of War, The Kick-Ass Writer, La véritable histoire de Carthage et de Hannibal, Gustav Adolf Mossa: L'oeuvre symboliste: 1903-1918, Les Fleurs du Mal and Métronome.
A note, on Darshan: I saw on the author's social media presence that she's rewriting the books before the fourth one comes out. And that, my friends, is why I will finish (or not, as the case may be) the first two books as I own them already, but will not be buying any more. Once I buy a book, I expect that story to be done and not get rewritten/exist in several versions. That's just confusing as fuck.
Le Visage de l'Ombre, by Erik L'Homme: (Book 3 of Le Livre des Etoiles.) I'm so close to being done with this book. SO CLOSE! I have thoughts, but I'm waiting I've finished the whole thing to talk about them. That said, I would like to point out that there are Korrigans being helpful in this book. Also, Urien is STILL LOSING HIS SHIT over Valentin dying, alternating between murderous revenge and crying all over the place, so yeah, I'm pretty sure him and Valentin are "feudal lord andhandmaiden manservant" rather than feudal lord and handmaiden manservant, if you know what I mean.
What are you reading next? (aka the to-read list)
Rome's Revolution was the original plan, but I think I'm going to reread Terry Pratchett's <i>Going Postal</i> first. Missed the Ides, anyway.
New additions to the list: The Grass-King's Concubine by Kari Sperring and Hostage by Sherwood Smith and Rachel Manija Brown are now owned by me as soon as I can get them to download to my ereader AND THERE WAS MUCH REJOYCING.
Not much, sadly. My brainspace has been occupied by various things this week so I haven't been reading as much as I wanted to.
On the other hand, given that I scored bingo last week, I'm cutting myself some slack.
Another thing that dug into my reading time was that on Saturday I decided that from now on I was going to comment on a fic a day, if I could manage it. That lasted about three days, because yesterday night my Internet decided to commit mutiny and refuse to do its job, so I couldn't do anything. I commented on two fics today to catch up. I expect to struggle somewhat with adding this to my routine for a while, but then get used to it.
( Said fics )
1001, by Sanya Anwar (art and scenario) (issues 1 & 2): (You can find them for free here.) This is a retelling of "One Thousand and One Arabian Nights" that so far hasn't gotten to the set-up of that tale and I have to say I'm greatly enjoying seeing what Scheherazade's life was like before all that went down. Although I love Scheherazade dearly, I think my favourite character is Dunyazade. SHE LIKES ALCHEMY! Truly a girl after my own heart. issue 3 is supposed to come out April 2015 and I'm excited for that.
Ant-Man #001 & #002, by Nick Spencer (scenario) and Ramon Rosanas (art): I've been terrible at following comics lately and so I'm trying to get back in the groove. I wish there was some sort of something that warned you when a new issue of a book you follow came out.
As for the comics themselves, I don't really have anything to say about them. I'm mostly reading for Cassie and so far there really hasn't been a lot of her (although she's kept the makeover Doom gave her, which what). I really hope Bank Lady who is totally a (former?) superhero shows up again, because she's awesome and I have to admit that Scott's solution to his housing problem is kind of hilarious.
What If: Age of Ultron #003, by Joe Keatinge (scenario) and Mico Suayan & Raffaele Ienco (art): A Marvel one-shot in an alternate univers. AN ALTERNATE UNIVERSE IN WHICH NATASHA WIELDS MJOLNIR. I don't feel like I need a better reason than that to like this issue.
( No, but for serious, NATASHA WIELDS MJOLNIR. (Falcon is one of her Valkyries.) )
Hum, I think five issues of comics can be counted as one book? That's usually how many issues are in a tpb, right? In that case, I'm count this... "anthology" as "author who shares your initials" (close enough, anyway) on the Random Card.
This makes 0/25 on the Mix'n'Match Card (unchanged from last week), 16/25 on the Random Card (+1 from last week) and 2/25 on the Serious Card (unchanged from last week) for
hamsterwoman's reading bingo.( Details )
What are you reading
Still stalled on The Art of War, The Kick-Ass Writer, La véritable histoire de Carthage et de Hannibal, Gustav Adolf Mossa: L'oeuvre symboliste: 1903-1918, Les Fleurs du Mal and Métronome.
A note, on Darshan: I saw on the author's social media presence that she's rewriting the books before the fourth one comes out. And that, my friends, is why I will finish (or not, as the case may be) the first two books as I own them already, but will not be buying any more. Once I buy a book, I expect that story to be done and not get rewritten/exist in several versions. That's just confusing as fuck.
Le Visage de l'Ombre, by Erik L'Homme: (Book 3 of Le Livre des Etoiles.) I'm so close to being done with this book. SO CLOSE! I have thoughts, but I'm waiting I've finished the whole thing to talk about them. That said, I would like to point out that there are Korrigans being helpful in this book. Also, Urien is STILL LOSING HIS SHIT over Valentin dying, alternating between murderous revenge and crying all over the place, so yeah, I'm pretty sure him and Valentin are "feudal lord and
What are you reading next? (aka the to-read list)
Rome's Revolution was the original plan, but I think I'm going to reread Terry Pratchett's <i>Going Postal</i> first. Missed the Ides, anyway.
( To-read list )
New additions to the list: The Grass-King's Concubine by Kari Sperring and Hostage by Sherwood Smith and Rachel Manija Brown are now owned by me as soon as I can get them to download to my ereader AND THERE WAS MUCH REJOYCING.