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kitewithfishReading Journal up to Jan 1 2025
What I’ve Read
Marry Me A Little: A Graphic Memoir by Robert Kirby – a sweet cartoon memoir around the author’s marriage to his husband in 2013 (two years before the national legalization of gay marriage in the US). It’s sweet, the political moment was hopeful and vulnerable, and it was written just after the first Trump administration ended, so, a nice time period to visit.
All My Bicycles by Powerpaola, translated by Andrea Rosenberg. A graphic memoir in bicycles. It’s not wildly engaging, I think I was turned off by the art style.
Ex Machina Vols 1, 2, and 3 by Brian K. Vaughan– A deeply weird visit to the early 2000s. The comic ran from 2004-2010 and the whole thing feels like edgelord superheroes doing The West Wing. The main character, Mitchell Hundred, is a former superhero with the power to control machines, now mayor of New York as an independent. The tone is that politics are about little power struggles and making decisions with the authority of the office, rather than, say, having beliefs about how to build the best city that keeps people the most happy and safe. The thing is, it’s also got a decently engaging superhero plot about Hundred’s short stint as a masked vigilante and the source of his powers, but there is just a horrible lack of actual beliefs in the politics. I might go thru and finish the series for the sake of completion, but it seems highly cynical overall. I suspect that this had a stronger moment at the time. The first issue might actually really hit if you were old enough to remember 9/11.
Harrow County Vol 1 – Countless Haints by Cullen Bunn – Creepy! It’s horror with a bit of decent character work and I think it might be setting up something for the second volume (which I happen to have out from the library)
The Wood at Midwinter by Susanna Clarke – A late entry to the 2024 final day of ready, because it literally game in the mail from a friend! I love Susanna Clarke, and this is an illustrated short story of a woman who is more at home in the woods than in the normal world.
What I’m Reading
Flyaway by Kathleen Jennings- about halfway, it’s Australian and I’m not sure what is the author’s creation or local myth.
The Return of the King – 42% -
It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror – 52%
Power Broker – Audiobook Part 3 – 1%
He Who Drowned the World – 59%
Static:
The Lottery and Other Stories – 44%
Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation – 31%
Ash: A Secret History – 23%
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 10%
Count of Monte Cristo 48%
What I’ll Read Next
Worn: A People’s History of Clothing by Sofi Thanhauser
Petals on the Wind
Strange Practice
The Centre -Sidiqi
City of Brass
What I’ve Read
Marry Me A Little: A Graphic Memoir by Robert Kirby – a sweet cartoon memoir around the author’s marriage to his husband in 2013 (two years before the national legalization of gay marriage in the US). It’s sweet, the political moment was hopeful and vulnerable, and it was written just after the first Trump administration ended, so, a nice time period to visit.
All My Bicycles by Powerpaola, translated by Andrea Rosenberg. A graphic memoir in bicycles. It’s not wildly engaging, I think I was turned off by the art style.
Ex Machina Vols 1, 2, and 3 by Brian K. Vaughan– A deeply weird visit to the early 2000s. The comic ran from 2004-2010 and the whole thing feels like edgelord superheroes doing The West Wing. The main character, Mitchell Hundred, is a former superhero with the power to control machines, now mayor of New York as an independent. The tone is that politics are about little power struggles and making decisions with the authority of the office, rather than, say, having beliefs about how to build the best city that keeps people the most happy and safe. The thing is, it’s also got a decently engaging superhero plot about Hundred’s short stint as a masked vigilante and the source of his powers, but there is just a horrible lack of actual beliefs in the politics. I might go thru and finish the series for the sake of completion, but it seems highly cynical overall. I suspect that this had a stronger moment at the time. The first issue might actually really hit if you were old enough to remember 9/11.
Harrow County Vol 1 – Countless Haints by Cullen Bunn – Creepy! It’s horror with a bit of decent character work and I think it might be setting up something for the second volume (which I happen to have out from the library)
The Wood at Midwinter by Susanna Clarke – A late entry to the 2024 final day of ready, because it literally game in the mail from a friend! I love Susanna Clarke, and this is an illustrated short story of a woman who is more at home in the woods than in the normal world.
What I’m Reading
Flyaway by Kathleen Jennings- about halfway, it’s Australian and I’m not sure what is the author’s creation or local myth.
The Return of the King – 42% -
It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror – 52%
Power Broker – Audiobook Part 3 – 1%
He Who Drowned the World – 59%
Static:
The Lottery and Other Stories – 44%
Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation – 31%
Ash: A Secret History – 23%
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 10%
Count of Monte Cristo 48%
What I’ll Read Next
Worn: A People’s History of Clothing by Sofi Thanhauser
Petals on the Wind
Strange Practice
The Centre -Sidiqi
City of Brass
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Date: 2025-01-03 05:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-01-03 02:42 pm (UTC)Harrow County I will report back on vol 2 since I got it from the library. Engaging art style, slightly dense reveal of the mystery.