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I guess it's time to do another reading post. I notice that I'm often just too tired to write anything coherent about my reading after I get work, so the pile of books tends to grow larger and larger until I get my next free day and have time and energy to do another reading post :).
First was a batch of latest books in a three manga titles I am currently following:
34. Akimine Kamijyo: Samurai Deeper Kyo 27
35. Hiromu Arakawa: Fullmetal Alchemist 16
36. Mick Takeuchi: Her Majesty's Dog 8
SDK continued it's pattern of moving two steps forward and one step backward. There were some new revelations, but in the end our heroes and once again wandering around the cellars looking for the way in to the Mibu fortress. Yukimura and Kyo finally had a fight that had been building for a while and Sasuke was shown not to have betrayed Yukimura after all. His is a lonely and sad fate, trying to do his best to protect the cause while appearing a Mibu servant.
I loved the scene where everybody thought that Yuya had finally found out Tora's real identity, thanks to his own slip, but she just asked him if he suffered from delusions of grandeur. Priceless! :D The Shinrei/Hotaru brotherly bickering and fighting was also funny - especially the way they finally decided to fight together against the guardians only because they interrupted their mutual fighting.
FMA was also pretty interesting. The people in it are dispersing to different directions while still trying to do their best to fight the homunculi and the military command who is totally corrupt. Scar teaming up with Dr. Marcoh in order to find out what it was that made Ishbalan alchemy so different was an interesting development. I wonder how the Elric brothers will fare in the north and I'm sure nothing good will come out of Kimblee's release.
Hee, in Her Majesty's Dog, Hyoue finally realized that his feelings for Amane had not been erased, even though he tried his best to believe in it. I wonder who Zakuro's master is? Hid kidnapping of Hyoue made everybody suspect Hyoue, even Amane had a few doubts, but as she said, it was more that she was doubting herself and fearing that she would lose Hyoue. I guess she is finally starting to have glimmerings of her true feelings for Hyoue, however naive and clueless she can be. The almost-kiss in the end was really good, but, of course, it was interrupted.
Next are a few romance anthologies, that have mostly served as commute reading, while at home I'm still reading The Kapoors. Every time I visit Old Schoolfriend, she passes me a pile of these anthologies since she buys them to read while going to work and coming home from work :).
37. Patricia Briggs; Eileen Wilks; Karen Chance; Sunny: On the Prowl
I guess this was the most enjoyable of the bunch, especially since I quite enjoy Briggs's Mercedes Thompson books and the story in this anthology takes place in that world, though with somewhat different main characters. The Eileen Wilks story was fun as well, but the other two were pretty forgettable.
38. Sabrina Jeffries; Liz Carlyle; Julia London; Renee Bernard: The School for Heiresses
This anthology contained four stories where the connection between the main female characters was that they all had attended the same finishing school for young women from nouveau riche families. It was okay timepass reading.
39. Sherri L. King; Elizabeth Jewell; S. L. Carpenter: Insatiable
A romantica (or erotica, or whatever term you want to use) anthology of stories originally published at Ellora's Cave. The three stories were pretty much skim-through reading and not worth remembering. I wasn't actually reading this book while commuting, since the shirtless muscle-bound hunk on the cover and the title of the book weren't exactly the kind of material that I want to be seen reading while in public transport :P.
First was a batch of latest books in a three manga titles I am currently following:
34. Akimine Kamijyo: Samurai Deeper Kyo 27
35. Hiromu Arakawa: Fullmetal Alchemist 16
36. Mick Takeuchi: Her Majesty's Dog 8
SDK continued it's pattern of moving two steps forward and one step backward. There were some new revelations, but in the end our heroes and once again wandering around the cellars looking for the way in to the Mibu fortress. Yukimura and Kyo finally had a fight that had been building for a while and Sasuke was shown not to have betrayed Yukimura after all. His is a lonely and sad fate, trying to do his best to protect the cause while appearing a Mibu servant.
I loved the scene where everybody thought that Yuya had finally found out Tora's real identity, thanks to his own slip, but she just asked him if he suffered from delusions of grandeur. Priceless! :D The Shinrei/Hotaru brotherly bickering and fighting was also funny - especially the way they finally decided to fight together against the guardians only because they interrupted their mutual fighting.
FMA was also pretty interesting. The people in it are dispersing to different directions while still trying to do their best to fight the homunculi and the military command who is totally corrupt. Scar teaming up with Dr. Marcoh in order to find out what it was that made Ishbalan alchemy so different was an interesting development. I wonder how the Elric brothers will fare in the north and I'm sure nothing good will come out of Kimblee's release.
Hee, in Her Majesty's Dog, Hyoue finally realized that his feelings for Amane had not been erased, even though he tried his best to believe in it. I wonder who Zakuro's master is? Hid kidnapping of Hyoue made everybody suspect Hyoue, even Amane had a few doubts, but as she said, it was more that she was doubting herself and fearing that she would lose Hyoue. I guess she is finally starting to have glimmerings of her true feelings for Hyoue, however naive and clueless she can be. The almost-kiss in the end was really good, but, of course, it was interrupted.
Next are a few romance anthologies, that have mostly served as commute reading, while at home I'm still reading The Kapoors. Every time I visit Old Schoolfriend, she passes me a pile of these anthologies since she buys them to read while going to work and coming home from work :).
37. Patricia Briggs; Eileen Wilks; Karen Chance; Sunny: On the Prowl
I guess this was the most enjoyable of the bunch, especially since I quite enjoy Briggs's Mercedes Thompson books and the story in this anthology takes place in that world, though with somewhat different main characters. The Eileen Wilks story was fun as well, but the other two were pretty forgettable.
38. Sabrina Jeffries; Liz Carlyle; Julia London; Renee Bernard: The School for Heiresses
This anthology contained four stories where the connection between the main female characters was that they all had attended the same finishing school for young women from nouveau riche families. It was okay timepass reading.
39. Sherri L. King; Elizabeth Jewell; S. L. Carpenter: Insatiable
A romantica (or erotica, or whatever term you want to use) anthology of stories originally published at Ellora's Cave. The three stories were pretty much skim-through reading and not worth remembering. I wasn't actually reading this book while commuting, since the shirtless muscle-bound hunk on the cover and the title of the book weren't exactly the kind of material that I want to be seen reading while in public transport :P.