Weekly Wednesday Reading Meme
What are you currently reading
7 Seeds Vol 15 by Yumi Tamura. CANNOT STOP. APOCALYPSE WILL GET ME. Or Ango. Not sure which is the more concerning possibility right now. Speaking of which:
Where I am, everyone in the combined camp just learned that Hana is Takashi's daughter and Ango has pretty much decided she should be their slave as a result. I'm pretty much terrified of what he's going to do next. (Pretty much everything Ango does post-original storyline makes me go "Ango, you were such a nice kid, how'd you get so...oh, right...")
Also, Koruri is lucky that Ango and Ryo probably don't know what a chastity belt is. Normally, the "no one can date the sister figure one or both of us could possibly have less-than-platonic feelings about" would enrage me, but the terror of losing another one of them (and anger at the idea that someone would take one of them away) makes perfect sense, sadly. At least Ryo can somewhat control the reaction, so far?
But! Hana! Ango! *gnaws fingernails off*
I'd probably be completely caught up now, but I spent the long weekend sick, and this way way too much for me to handle while sick. But this series is pretty much Yumi Tamura's attempt to see how many times and with what frequency she can crush your soul and stomp on your heart and keep you coming back for more, though every once in a while, she takes pity on us and gives us Summer B hijinks, which are still more tense than most series are at their most serious, but are positively relaxing compared to the drama and trauma of the rest of it.
ETA: My twitter feed is probably ready for me to catch up with 7 Seeds, as I think only 2 people who follow me there read the series, and I keep going "7 Seeds! Soul crushing angst!" "7 Seeds! Anytime X shows up, it's like being repeatedly stabbed in the heart!" "OMG Yumi Tamura how does your brain exist?"
What did you recently finish reading?
Volumes 8(?)-14 of 7 Seeds.
Dust Girl and Golden Girlby Sarah Zettel, which I posted on separately.
Moving Pictures by Kathryn and Stuart Immonen: Noir-ish graphic novel about a minor museum curator who hides both art and people in Nazi occupied France, and who is being interogated about her work. I found it very engrossing while reading it, but finished it without having a clue how I really felt about it.
Mercury by Hope Larson. Graphic novel set in Nova Scotia in both 1859 and the present, following Josie (1859) whose farmer father goes into business with a potentially shady traveller to mine for gold, and Tara, a descendant of Josie's who is living with her Aunt and Uncle after the farmhouse that's been in the family for generations burns down. It follows Tara's upwards arc and Josie's downwards arc and bothe were interesting (though I prefered Tara's plot to Josie's) but while it did tie the two together beyond the family element at the end, they never quite felt connected to me, and people were strangely casual about things like pits full of snakes and being attacked by talking crows with human faces. Still,very enjoyable read altogether.
What do you think you'll read next?
More 7 Seeds. Probably attempt to force myself to stop and read something less stressful for my own good, but I don't know what.