Stuff consumed, including some NON ROMANCE NOVEL books!
Books/comics:
Wheel of the Infinite by Martha Wells: Fantasy about a middle aged priestess who's fallen significantly from grace facing Supernatural Shenanigans with wry resignation. Reminds me a lot of Paladin of Souls, except set in a tropical country (loosely based on...a mixture of Tibet and North Africa maybe??) A little underwritten but otherwise really good. The 30 something pale skinned foreign swordsman who would be the hero in most books is just the love interest, and happy to let the heroine take the lead :D (He's on the cover of some versions of the book anyway because BLAH PUBLISHING INDUSTRY) Normally "friends with benefits" relationships don't work for me but they have a really nice friendship, plus makeouts. And the worldbuilding is interesting and feels real. A lot of it was very predictable if you've read the right kinds of fantasy, and all the twists were heavily telegraphed, but it all made sense and came to a fairly satisfying conclusion.
Color and Light by James Gurney: A non fiction book on painting by the guy who made Dinotopia. I am reading it VERY SLOWLY but it's been interesting and I've definitely learned some stuff I will use for my art.
From the Humble LGBT Book Bundle, which is ongoing for the next few days:
Wuvable Oaf: A big hairy gay man with a sweet nature looks for love. Cute for what it is, but too indie-comic-weird for my tastes, I didn't feel connected to the characters and found the art style and occasional grossness off putting.
Kevin Keller: Welcome to Riverdale. First gay Archie character! It’s otherwise a typical Archie comic eg kinda bland, and I got bored and stopped.
Games:
The Tiny Bang Story: A cute, pretty, and surreal puzzle/hidden object game whose main flaw for me was that it was just slightly too difficult to be as much fun as it could have been, and the hint system is just slightly too laborious to reset and only works for certain kinds of objects. There were some platformer-y hand eye coordination puzzles I managed to do but found a little challenging, which means they were ridiculously easy by most people's standards but might be beyond people with serious coordination/reaction issues. Any plot was so subtle it went over my head, it just gives you a bunch of things to do then stops.
Hatoful Boyfriend Holiday Star: Just started this, it is very much in tone with the original game, it made me laugh but didn't grab me. Wouldn't play on the mac so I keep forgetting to open up Windows to play it.
Minecraft: Started again after hearing there's new objects, so far all I've encountered is some slightly different colours of rock, and the main effect they have is making my inventory fill faster.
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Wheel of the Infinite by Martha Wells: Fantasy about a middle aged priestess who's fallen significantly from grace facing Supernatural Shenanigans with wry resignation. Reminds me a lot of Paladin of Souls, except set in a tropical country (loosely based on...a mixture of Tibet and North Africa maybe??) A little underwritten but otherwise really good. The 30 something pale skinned foreign swordsman who would be the hero in most books is just the love interest, and happy to let the heroine take the lead :D (He's on the cover of some versions of the book anyway because BLAH PUBLISHING INDUSTRY) Normally "friends with benefits" relationships don't work for me but they have a really nice friendship, plus makeouts. And the worldbuilding is interesting and feels real. A lot of it was very predictable if you've read the right kinds of fantasy, and all the twists were heavily telegraphed, but it all made sense and came to a fairly satisfying conclusion.
Color and Light by James Gurney: A non fiction book on painting by the guy who made Dinotopia. I am reading it VERY SLOWLY but it's been interesting and I've definitely learned some stuff I will use for my art.
From the Humble LGBT Book Bundle, which is ongoing for the next few days:
Wuvable Oaf: A big hairy gay man with a sweet nature looks for love. Cute for what it is, but too indie-comic-weird for my tastes, I didn't feel connected to the characters and found the art style and occasional grossness off putting.
Kevin Keller: Welcome to Riverdale. First gay Archie character! It’s otherwise a typical Archie comic eg kinda bland, and I got bored and stopped.
Games:
The Tiny Bang Story: A cute, pretty, and surreal puzzle/hidden object game whose main flaw for me was that it was just slightly too difficult to be as much fun as it could have been, and the hint system is just slightly too laborious to reset and only works for certain kinds of objects. There were some platformer-y hand eye coordination puzzles I managed to do but found a little challenging, which means they were ridiculously easy by most people's standards but might be beyond people with serious coordination/reaction issues. Any plot was so subtle it went over my head, it just gives you a bunch of things to do then stops.
Hatoful Boyfriend Holiday Star: Just started this, it is very much in tone with the original game, it made me laugh but didn't grab me. Wouldn't play on the mac so I keep forgetting to open up Windows to play it.
Minecraft: Started again after hearing there's new objects, so far all I've encountered is some slightly different colours of rock, and the main effect they have is making my inventory fill faster.
This entry was originally posted at http://alias-sqbr.dreamwidth.org/617798.html. There are
comments.