Yes, lol. By the way, that webcomic's adorable so far! Also. There's a character like me...I LOL'd way too hard.
*GAAASSP* You have entrusted me with your deepest secret. I will protect this knowledge with my life.
Just finished Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon. Now reading The Thin Man. Both books are miles better than the films (which I also enjoyed).
Just read a bunch of Elfquest stuff. The early stories are better than the later ones - the later ones suffer from too-many-characters-itis and are a bit hard to follow because of that. Still, Wendy Pini's elves are sexy as hell (!). So I'm done treating my inner teenage comic-fantasy geek for a while, and it's time to grow up again. I'm now reading James Karman's biography of Robinson Jeffers, along with some essays on the poet's work from a book called The Wild That Attracts Us, edited by ShaunAnne Tangney. Generally, I hate reading literary criticism because even the titles are deliberately comically incomprehensible (an essay in Tangney's book is called "Praxis, Gnosis, Poeisis: Inhabitation as Performative Myth in Thoreau and Jeffers", a title that says "Give up now, you simple-minded engineer") but I make exceptions for work on Jeffers because, hey, Jeffers!
I feel like I need to do something about this. I'd say it's a good thing I'm changing my name, but I've also revealed the the name I plan on changing mine to in another thread... ...oh, bother...lol
Currently, I'm reading Push by Sapphire. This book is fucking horrific, but not the writing. The content is horrific. I have a pretty high tolerance for fucked-up goings on in fiction, but this one is testing those limits.
Been reading a lot of neurology stuff as of late...not all that interesting to many, haha. But I have been wondering about the Dune series. Honestly, with so many books I'd have to read, I find the idea daunting, but my reading buds tell me its worth it.
I'm reading Newtown. Has anyone here read it? It's a little hard to read. I've literally thrown the book across the room. I want to read it, but I'm having a hard time, knowing it's just going to get more difficult. I would love to talk to anyone else who has read it. It's well written, and I think an important story. It's because the writer did such a good job that's making it hard to take.
King Rat by China Miéville. I've tried reading this author before and never quite engaged with his writing. But this one snuck up on me. In fact, I don't even remember how it got onto my Kindle. But it's busy whacking me over the head with a cudgel on every page, and I am totally hooked. I wouldn't say 'captivated,' because that implies a kind of gooey cuteness. This is gooey, but definitely not cute. I am quite pleased. He is a writer I've always wanted to rate. Now I do. This is one hell of a tale. It doesn't even matter how it ends. I'm sure I won't be disappointed, because I have no expectations. I'm about halfway through, and am along for the ride/leap/flight, whatever you call it.
Is this the one by Matthew Lysiak, about the Sandy Hook shooting? I just looked it up on Amazon, and was horrified to see that it's only got just above a one-star rating BECAUSE most of the one-or-two line 'reviewers' are fantatical anti gun control people. Many of them are claiming that Sandy Hook never even happened. What have we become?
I used to procrastinate with this one. It me took years before I finally picked up the book. Now I’m glad I did. You should get round to it one day (I won’t give you spoilers).
A friend was moving and gave me a bunch of books so I never looked up reviews, but that's the one. It's really well done and extremely emotional and engaging. I highly recommend it. It's really sad that all the sick and crazy people are coming out. This is a horrible thing that happened, but it did happen. Anyone who thinks otherwise should be thrown in the Atlantic.