( Also spoilers for Jane the Virgin and Agent Carter, I guess, but those are weeks old )

I keep being lured into reading the current Black Widow series by its wonderful art, even though I know it's not going to make me happy. The problem is, Nathan Edmondson's Natasha Romanoff is not my Natasha Romanoff ( Read more... )

I seem to have skipped writing up books for all November, so I'll have to catch up in another post. In the spirit of getting back to posting, I am currently reading:

• Ankaret Wells, Heavy IceThis is the third Requite book. It's set a hundred, a hundred twenty years later than the first two, so it's pretty much an independent book, although it ( Read more... )

Completed
Terry A. Adams, Battleground - I'm trying to figure out how I feel about this. I still love Adams' prose, but I have issues with the world-building and the possibly unearned bleakness of the worldview. And the aliens are less interesting than the aliens in the previous books, even if deliberately so. (The protagonist's antipathy for ( Read more... )

( Manga )

I forgot how much I liked this series until I reread it in trade (recent issues have suffered from tie-in-itis). It would be a good place to start for movie fans who want to try out the comics, I think; it is a delightful and unforced fusion of movies and comics. The series is deliberately continuity-light; various groupings of Avengers go on ( Read more... )

Dear Marvel,

How much do I have to pay you NOT to include the AR logo for additional digital content in your print books?

Sincerely,

--m.


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What I read

• Barbara Hambly, Stranger at the Wedding - Reread. This isn't one of my favorites, but Hambly's virtues are so consistent it is almost always a great comfort to read her. I picked it because I've reread it much less often than my favorites ( Read more... )

What did you just finish reading?
I finished Anna Cowan's Untamed. Review copy, so I'll save it for review.

Skimmed Iron Man 3 Prelude, aka What Jim Rhodes Was Doing During The Avengers ( Read more... )

A little late, partly because I forgot I'd finished anything until Goodreads reminded me.

What did you just finish reading?
Books
B.R. Collins, Mazecheat - YA sf set in a future or alternate England where the only way out of acid-rain-drenched poverty is to win a virtual reality game. Gamerunners frequently hire mazecheats to program them ( Read more... )