and when i'm breathless I'll run till I drop
Ugh. Work. My 'vacation' this summer is a week dad-sitting while my brother and his family go to Hilton Head, and part of me is annoyed about it (though less so now with the specter of moving possibly not hovering over me and waking me up in a panic at 4 am) and part of me is pining for a week of not being here dealing with picayune bullshit caused because people don't understand how a mail merge works. I mean, at least Dom has a pool in the backyard and decent wifi. *hands*
Anyway! Reading!
What I've just finished
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts by Joshua Hammer, which I definitely enjoyed even though I had a hard time keeping track of the various jihadi groups that splintered and renamed themselves etc. The one thing I wish it had included was pictures of the manuscripts. And more detailed maps. You can never have too many maps in a book, imo. I am just saying.
Darth Vader #22, which, aside from the Aphra stuff, I don't think I understood at all? Idek.
Grayson Annual #3. Oh Dick. This was fun - I especially liked Harley's part - but I docked it at least 1/2 a star because ugh, Azrael. Why? WHY?
In other comics news,
newredshoes linked to this article on Comics Alliance about the current differences between comics creators and the influx of new fans created by the movies etc.: Where Have All The Good Men Gone And Where Are All The Gods? Reflections On The Rifts In Superhero Fandom by Andrew Wheeler. (I guess he wanted to earworm everyone. Heh.) It's a good read.
What I'm reading now
Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was by Angélica Gorodischer (translated by Ursula K. Le Guin), which is beautifully written (translated?) and a joy to read in the sense that the sentences are beautifully constructed and the stories are interesting, but I'm not sure I'm getting what the point is? I don't know. Also, possibly I am a terrible person, but I keep hearing the Jane the Virgin Latin Lover Narrator as the storyteller (even though the storytellers are not the same in each story). Maybe I just want Anthony Mendez to read everything to me! You don't know me! Ahem.
What I'm reading next
*hands* I did just get The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports by Jeff Passan for $1.99 for kindle, so maybe that? I don't know. Given the Mets' recent troubles, it seems timely.
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Anyway! Reading!
What I've just finished
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts by Joshua Hammer, which I definitely enjoyed even though I had a hard time keeping track of the various jihadi groups that splintered and renamed themselves etc. The one thing I wish it had included was pictures of the manuscripts. And more detailed maps. You can never have too many maps in a book, imo. I am just saying.
Darth Vader #22, which, aside from the Aphra stuff, I don't think I understood at all? Idek.
Grayson Annual #3. Oh Dick. This was fun - I especially liked Harley's part - but I docked it at least 1/2 a star because ugh, Azrael. Why? WHY?
In other comics news,
newredshoes linked to this article on Comics Alliance about the current differences between comics creators and the influx of new fans created by the movies etc.: Where Have All The Good Men Gone And Where Are All The Gods? Reflections On The Rifts In Superhero Fandom by Andrew Wheeler. (I guess he wanted to earworm everyone. Heh.) It's a good read.
What I'm reading now
Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was by Angélica Gorodischer (translated by Ursula K. Le Guin), which is beautifully written (translated?) and a joy to read in the sense that the sentences are beautifully constructed and the stories are interesting, but I'm not sure I'm getting what the point is? I don't know. Also, possibly I am a terrible person, but I keep hearing the Jane the Virgin Latin Lover Narrator as the storyteller (even though the storytellers are not the same in each story). Maybe I just want Anthony Mendez to read everything to me! You don't know me! Ahem.
What I'm reading next
*hands* I did just get The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports by Jeff Passan for $1.99 for kindle, so maybe that? I don't know. Given the Mets' recent troubles, it seems timely.
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This entry at DW: http://musesfool.dreamwidth.org/852805.html.
people have commented there.