Reading Wednesday
May. 13th, 2015 11:19 pmI am still pants at getting to bed at reasonable hours, sorry. And I don't think try to hold three historical Ancient Rome settings in my head is helping any.
What did you finish reading
Les quatre de Baker Street, Tome 6: L'Homme du Yard, by Jean-Blaise Dijan (story) and David Etien (art): As always, THIS IS DELIGHTFUL AND I AM DELIGHTED.
In this book, we've skipped forward roughly a year. The art style actually shows the kids' figures lengthening and they look believably older. I'm very impressed. Children are very hard to draw, especially to draw as growing.
Anyway, the kids (who are what's left of the Baker Street Irregulars: Billy Fletcher, Black Tom de Kilburn, Charlie and her cat Watson*, the titular four) are helping Holmes, back in London after Reichenbach since last volume, track down the men who've taken over Moriarty's crime empire.
This is set during the period where in the Doyle stories Holmes is presumed dead, then. The comic diverges from ACD canon (kind of) in a major-ish way that is spoiler-y but I thought was well handled, starting from last volume. To clarify: it starts diverging last voluem and is well handled from the start. Charlie refusing to take any of Holmes' shit is forever hilarious and amazing. Tom calling Holmes out on his shit was a welcome surprise. (That leaves Billy, but I'm not holding my breath. Billy literally wants to be Sherlock Holmes when he grows up.) (I actually enjoy every time people call Holmes on his shit.)
Anyway, the titular Man from the Yard decides to set the entire London police force after the kids in the hope that'll lead him to Holmes. The kids therefore have to go where the London police won't go: in an Irish rookery. It's a good thing Tom's Irish and so can get them in, because Charlie and Billy are English and that might not have gone so well. /understatement
Then things happen! But I won't spoil it. JUST READ THE SERIES, OKAY?
(My thoughts during this book can be summed up as follows, in chronological order, "oh no Watson (doctor)!", "oh no Watson (cat)!", "oh no Kitty!" and then endless rounds of keysmash because WOW. WOW.)
This is still the best Sherlock Holmes adaptation, BAR NONE. (I confess that I'm sad the Watsons didn't adopt the kids, though.)
*Doctor Watson's face when he learns Charlie's named the cat Watson is HILARIOUS.
Counting this as "book without magical creatures" for the Random card of the reading bingo.
I flipped another comic through while I was at the comic shop. This was Les mille et autres Nuits (1. Jaisalmer), by Stephen Desberg (story) and Henri Reculé (art). Scheherazade, Ali Baba and the magician who owns the genie's lamp (plus those two other dudes) team up for a heist of magical proportions! I should be loving this, but I'm feeling mostly meh. Will probably flip through the next ones if I remember. (Calling it now: Khadjirah and the woman who kills the griffin in the backstory are one an dthe same. Also, something better be going on with Scheherazade.)
This makes 0/25 on the Mix'n'Match Card (unchanged from last time), 20/25 on the Random Card (+1 from last time) and 5/25 on the Serious Card (unchanged from last time) for![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
hamsterwoman 's reading bingo.
( Details! )
What are you currently reading
Still stalled on The Art of War, The Kick-Ass Writer, La véritable histoire de Carthage et de Hannibal, Les Fleurs du Mal and Métronome.
Made very negligeable progress on Rome's Revolution, Ghosts of Cannae or L'aigle et le safran.
I basically failed at reading this week. I also don't think reading two non-fiction books about two different periods of the Roman Republic is a great idea. I'll finish Rome's Revolution before turning back to Ghosts of Cannae, because I'm further along in Rome's Revolution (20% vs 2%).
This frees up one of my reading slots! I have three reading slots: the book that's on my phone for reading during the day (this was Ghosts of Cannae), the paper book and ebook I read in the evnings (respectively L'aigle et le safran and Rome's Revolution).
I'm going to be reading The Grass-King's Concubine on my phone as soon as I put it there, then!
What are you reading next? (aka the to-read list)
The Grass-King's Concubine! I'll move it to evening book when I'm done with Rome's Revolution. (And Ghosts of Cannae will then return as book-on-phone.)
As for paper books, Métronome will replace L'aigle et le safran. It's a loan, after all, and I can't very well keep it forever. Then, I'll probably return to reading Darshan, by Jade Baudoin, unless I can't be fucked.
( To-read list )
Addition to the list: Chroniques du Pays des Mères by Elisabeth Vonarburg, on a reccomendation from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
_profiterole_ .
What did you finish reading
Les quatre de Baker Street, Tome 6: L'Homme du Yard, by Jean-Blaise Dijan (story) and David Etien (art): As always, THIS IS DELIGHTFUL AND I AM DELIGHTED.
In this book, we've skipped forward roughly a year. The art style actually shows the kids' figures lengthening and they look believably older. I'm very impressed. Children are very hard to draw, especially to draw as growing.
Anyway, the kids (who are what's left of the Baker Street Irregulars: Billy Fletcher, Black Tom de Kilburn, Charlie and her cat Watson*, the titular four) are helping Holmes, back in London after Reichenbach since last volume, track down the men who've taken over Moriarty's crime empire.
This is set during the period where in the Doyle stories Holmes is presumed dead, then. The comic diverges from ACD canon (kind of) in a major-ish way that is spoiler-y but I thought was well handled, starting from last volume. To clarify: it starts diverging last voluem and is well handled from the start. Charlie refusing to take any of Holmes' shit is forever hilarious and amazing. Tom calling Holmes out on his shit was a welcome surprise. (That leaves Billy, but I'm not holding my breath. Billy literally wants to be Sherlock Holmes when he grows up.) (I actually enjoy every time people call Holmes on his shit.)
Anyway, the titular Man from the Yard decides to set the entire London police force after the kids in the hope that'll lead him to Holmes. The kids therefore have to go where the London police won't go: in an Irish rookery. It's a good thing Tom's Irish and so can get them in, because Charlie and Billy are English and that might not have gone so well. /understatement
Then things happen! But I won't spoil it. JUST READ THE SERIES, OKAY?
(My thoughts during this book can be summed up as follows, in chronological order, "oh no Watson (doctor)!", "oh no Watson (cat)!", "oh no Kitty!" and then endless rounds of keysmash because WOW. WOW.)
This is still the best Sherlock Holmes adaptation, BAR NONE. (I confess that I'm sad the Watsons didn't adopt the kids, though.)
*Doctor Watson's face when he learns Charlie's named the cat Watson is HILARIOUS.
Counting this as "book without magical creatures" for the Random card of the reading bingo.
I flipped another comic through while I was at the comic shop. This was Les mille et autres Nuits (1. Jaisalmer), by Stephen Desberg (story) and Henri Reculé (art). Scheherazade, Ali Baba and the magician who owns the genie's lamp (plus those two other dudes) team up for a heist of magical proportions! I should be loving this, but I'm feeling mostly meh. Will probably flip through the next ones if I remember. (Calling it now: Khadjirah and the woman who kills the griffin in the backstory are one an dthe same. Also, something better be going on with Scheherazade.)
This makes 0/25 on the Mix'n'Match Card (unchanged from last time), 20/25 on the Random Card (+1 from last time) and 5/25 on the Serious Card (unchanged from last time) for
hamsterwoman 's reading bingo.( Details! )What are you currently reading
Still stalled on The Art of War, The Kick-Ass Writer, La véritable histoire de Carthage et de Hannibal, Les Fleurs du Mal and Métronome.
Made very negligeable progress on Rome's Revolution, Ghosts of Cannae or L'aigle et le safran.
I basically failed at reading this week. I also don't think reading two non-fiction books about two different periods of the Roman Republic is a great idea. I'll finish Rome's Revolution before turning back to Ghosts of Cannae, because I'm further along in Rome's Revolution (20% vs 2%).
This frees up one of my reading slots! I have three reading slots: the book that's on my phone for reading during the day (this was Ghosts of Cannae), the paper book and ebook I read in the evnings (respectively L'aigle et le safran and Rome's Revolution).
I'm going to be reading The Grass-King's Concubine on my phone as soon as I put it there, then!
What are you reading next? (aka the to-read list)
The Grass-King's Concubine! I'll move it to evening book when I'm done with Rome's Revolution. (And Ghosts of Cannae will then return as book-on-phone.)
As for paper books, Métronome will replace L'aigle et le safran. It's a loan, after all, and I can't very well keep it forever. Then, I'll probably return to reading Darshan, by Jade Baudoin, unless I can't be fucked.
( To-read list )Addition to the list: Chroniques du Pays des Mères by Elisabeth Vonarburg, on a reccomendation from
_profiterole_ .
