Comments | meiface: books, books, books: 2015 june-sept

meiface

books, books, books: 2015 june-sept

Sep 27, 2015 18:59

One day when One Piece ends, it may be my favorite manga. This is on the presumption and faith that Oda still knows what he's doing, has a plan, and will end strong and epic. Luffy, our Pirate King. ♥ (I do wonder, a bit apprehensively, if he'll do another major character death. It seems unthinkable to me, and a ruination of the ultimate dream for ( Read more... )

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shadowfireflame September 29 2015, 04:01:15 UTC

Fascinating! Thanks for these reviews. I'm very curious as to what you will think of The Goblin Emperor--it's been on my list as well, and I'm intrigued because it's received good reviews and looks good, but I just haven't had time to dig into it yet.

Curious--have you seen One Piece the anime? In all its hundreds of episodes glory? If so, is it as good as the manga? I've been meaning to start that one as well but don't know if I'm up to the ultimate challenge!!

meiface September 30 2015, 20:46:55 UTC

I'm going out of town this weekend so my aim is to read TGE on the plane! The things I've heard about it make seem like something I'd like, even though sci-fi is not always my thing, but I'm definitely intrigued.

I haven't seen the OP anime actually; I've always been more prone to manga than anime (I am just terrible at watching most things, especially serial things). I've heard it's quite good though! But ridiculously long, of course, given that it's One Piece...

meritjubet September 30 2015, 11:20:35 UTC

You have been productive!

As I've said previously, I also really enjoyed Uprooted. Hopefully we'll see more of the world, even if it is new characters. Alosha when she was young? One of her magical grandchildren? I would like that!

I've started reading Sorcerer to the Crown and it is lighter than I originally thought it was going to be (until I saw it compared to Heyer) but I'm quite enjoying it :)

I feel like I was one of the few people who didn't quite enjoy The Goblin Emperor. It had a lot of elements that I like but it didn't quite hit the mark for me.

meiface September 30 2015, 20:49:59 UTC

hahaha it comes from having a much quieter social life after moving to place where I have no friends!

Ooh, I liked everything described about Sorrcer of the Crown but I don't think I would have quite expected it be Heyer-esque either, but I will enjoy it if so (hopefully). I will get to it soon!

I'll let you know what I think about TGE! I think another plus of these lists is not only do I feel productive about reading (and listing them out helps my memory haha), but it forces me to actually stop and think about and digest what I've read. Now, not everything is Great Literature and doesn't merit analysis, necessarily, but some thought is probably not amiss.

catskilt October 22 2015, 00:31:58 UTC

Definitely going to check out Uprooted and A Little Folly :) I should get down to reading the rest of the Miss Marple series too! I don't have as many Miss Marple books as Poirot since I found her boring initially (about 1.5 decades ago) and it's only recently that I've really started to appreciate her :)

meiface October 22 2015, 19:55:09 UTC

I hope you'll enjoy Uprooted! The worldbuilding/mythology was a lot of fun and sometimes that's nice and feels richer and deeper after all the regency stuff which is of course built on our existing history (but also glamorized and glossing over real world sociopolitical ills and economic inequality and such...not as fun in a frothy romance, alas).

Have to do a post for my October books soon, since I think I read as many in Oct as all of this post, haha. I got really bored/had no social life this month!