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kitewithfish) wrote2023-08-23 04:55 pm
kitewithfish) wrote2023-08-23 04:55 pm
Wednesday Reading Meme August 23 2023
What I’ve Read:
Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow – Tom King – Hugo Nominee – Best Graphic Novel – Pretty meh. It’s competently written? I think it alludes to the themes that it’s interested in more than actually explores them. I don’t like Tom King’s character work and I think this suffered from a tonal problem of trying to mimic an older style of Golden Age SciFi that I tend to find distant and boring. Tom King can write a great paragraph! I don’t think I’ve seen him do things that actually explore character very well, except in a grim ‘everyone is selfish and evil at their core’ vibe. Strange Adventures last year was more interesting, possibly because I was less familiar with the character that he was reviving and the nostalgic tone he struck worked better with that kind of spaceman spiff character. While I don’t think I like King’s view of the world, I think he’s a perfectly fine writer, just not to my tastes.
Abandoned: Still Just a Geek: An Annotated Memoir – gave it three tries, it assumes I know far more about this guy’s life than I do, and apologizes for writing his memoir in 2004 that had some moderately awful takes (mostly being an edgelord and whiny teenages takes) but it’s rendered basically unreadable bc the footnotes on the text from 2004 assume you know the content of the whole memoir from 2004 – and since I don’t, the book ends up giving important information in a very haphazard manner. I tried?
Wedding Bells… No More like Hell's Bells by Jade_Dragoness – Dresden Files fanfic, about 100k and incomplete, it was great and plotty and hit the tone I loved for Dresden Files back in the day.
What I’m Reading:
The Spare Man – Mary Robinette Kowalski – Fun!
Runaway Jury – 50% ish
Thud! By Terry Pratchett
Kristeva Powers of Horror – 51%
Dracula – Keeping up with Dracula Daily
The Count of Monte Cristo – 46% - Static
The King in Yellow 25% -static
What I’ll Read Next:
Dune Graphic Novel
Other hugo bits like Ogres
Owned and need to read: California Bones, Raven Song by IA Ashcroft, Kraken's Sacrifice by Katee Robert, At The Feet of the Sun by Victoria Goddard, Tamryn Eradani's Enchanting Encounters Books 2 and 3, Tom Stoppard, Invention of love, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty, "You Just Need to Lose Weight" and Other Myths about Fatness by Aubrey Gordon, Alisha Rai Partners in Crime, the Right Swipe, Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle
Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow – Tom King – Hugo Nominee – Best Graphic Novel – Pretty meh. It’s competently written? I think it alludes to the themes that it’s interested in more than actually explores them. I don’t like Tom King’s character work and I think this suffered from a tonal problem of trying to mimic an older style of Golden Age SciFi that I tend to find distant and boring. Tom King can write a great paragraph! I don’t think I’ve seen him do things that actually explore character very well, except in a grim ‘everyone is selfish and evil at their core’ vibe. Strange Adventures last year was more interesting, possibly because I was less familiar with the character that he was reviving and the nostalgic tone he struck worked better with that kind of spaceman spiff character. While I don’t think I like King’s view of the world, I think he’s a perfectly fine writer, just not to my tastes.
Abandoned: Still Just a Geek: An Annotated Memoir – gave it three tries, it assumes I know far more about this guy’s life than I do, and apologizes for writing his memoir in 2004 that had some moderately awful takes (mostly being an edgelord and whiny teenages takes) but it’s rendered basically unreadable bc the footnotes on the text from 2004 assume you know the content of the whole memoir from 2004 – and since I don’t, the book ends up giving important information in a very haphazard manner. I tried?
Wedding Bells… No More like Hell's Bells by Jade_Dragoness – Dresden Files fanfic, about 100k and incomplete, it was great and plotty and hit the tone I loved for Dresden Files back in the day.
What I’m Reading:
The Spare Man – Mary Robinette Kowalski – Fun!
Runaway Jury – 50% ish
Thud! By Terry Pratchett
Kristeva Powers of Horror – 51%
Dracula – Keeping up with Dracula Daily
The Count of Monte Cristo – 46% - Static
The King in Yellow 25% -static
What I’ll Read Next:
Dune Graphic Novel
Other hugo bits like Ogres
Owned and need to read: California Bones, Raven Song by IA Ashcroft, Kraken's Sacrifice by Katee Robert, At The Feet of the Sun by Victoria Goddard, Tamryn Eradani's Enchanting Encounters Books 2 and 3, Tom Stoppard, Invention of love, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty, "You Just Need to Lose Weight" and Other Myths about Fatness by Aubrey Gordon, Alisha Rai Partners in Crime, the Right Swipe, Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle
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