Finished All The Hidden Paths. I think on a technical level, it's worse than A Strange and Stubborn Endurance (as well as treading a lot of same ground), but I enjoyed it more. 19 books down
Tbf I have a few of those in there ( not so large, but history books all the same ) and I havent finished any of those yet. I want the information, but prose is just easier to read/remember.
Finished The Forest of Enchantments. WEEPING YET AGAIN. I've had The Palace of Illusions for a while now and I have to get to that soon. 18 books done. It may be quite sad, but I don't think I've ever read this much in a single year before.
Or rather...the reverse I guess
The I, Claudius theme sounds like one of the Dragon Quest battle tracks.
One of the sections of Osamu Tezuka's Apollo Song and Isaac from The Orville. Neither of them are most about the robots in them though. Of course there's also Data from TNG who notably has...all his parts
I think it's possible to both celebrate what we're able to accomplish despite chronic physical and/or mental illness while at the same time mourning all that we didn't accomplish because of chronic physical and/or mental illness. Two things can be true at once. Love the struggler not the struggle. 💜
I did manage to get back to reading my informational books on Roman society. I am also enjoying The Enchanted Forest. I do feel guilty for mostly reading more recent fantasy books. I do need to read some classics...a book for fun and a book for brain.
I'm only in my reading era because I'm too depressed to do anything else.
The streets are mostly clean by the by. It isn't the snow.
Conspiracy Theory: the MTA is being worse than usual because people in charge of it want to make the mayor look bad. I spent more time today waiting for buses than being on buses and I have 2 seperate hr and 30 min trips. If you look at the live location of buses THERE ARE NONE
Which to be clear, I'm glad when people like a thing I don't. Differing experiences and differing tastes.
I felt, if thats who the fans were, the work must be intolerable. Actually reading that settled it for me.
Truthfully, it did not help that the cashier at comic book store accosted me for not being into it as soon as it came out. I waited for an omnibus and the thought of a comic book dork chiding me for buying things when I felt like it urked me to no end.
I wouldnt expect new words, just a decent usage of the ones we know. Also, what I was complaining about mostly applies to fantasy stories that are at least...vaguely inspired by a historical time period. Most are, but not all.
There were other things about it that I knew were not for me, but years later the swearing is what I remember most. It is a hard balance to strike, and I feel it is so rarely done effectively.
Also, sorry for all the typos. Autocorrect hates my guts
The other things that I have mostly gotten over is the use of "hello" which feels off because it's use was popularized with the more common use of the telephone. This bothers me less, though, because I understand why it's used for "translation" purposes.
I remember trying to read Saga years ago and all I could think about it was that it felt like it was written by a young teen because of all the swearing. I'm not even against swearing, but most people don't use it well.
The one consistent thing that has bothered me in most of the modern fantasy I've been reading is the use of f**k for emphasis or insult. These uses of the word are modern so it takes me right out. I kinda think heavy swearing in general feels childish on paper.
Finished A Strange and Stubborn Endurance. I enjoyed it despite some clunky. 17 books so far this year
It really was. It was unintentionally scary in a somewhat abstract way. It felt oddly liminal in a way I can't explain.
It was supposed to be scary but not as scary as I took it to be. The purple goo monster from Ghost Writer gave me nightmares for years and I still can't look at it. Myst Frightened me too, honestly. Oh, there was also a Rugrats game that had stages set at night. Nightmares
Thank you!
It has been the gold standard for that sort of thing for a long time. I don't know if it would comfort you but most cartoonists I know struggle with thumbnails.
I'll look into it. Thank you!
What lies beyond the living world was always a presence in these books and now that particular set of stories are brought to an end. I will not start Tehanu right away, but I do have it. I'm curious to see what comes next.
A Wizard of Earthsea is the folly of a young boy and his need to fix his mistakes, The Tombs of Atuan is the subjugation of a young woman and her fight for freedom and The Farthest Shore is that boy now an older man and his journey through death
I finished The Farthest Shore. A victory because I tried to start it last year and it just didn't take. I began again and finished it now. I do enjoy how the Earthsea books handle magic more than most. I also like it because of what it is to the books before it.
OH MAN THEY ARE SO RIGHT. Because I see it on so many smut books, my brain goes to "This looks like you're reading porn in public regardless of if the book actually contains smut or not"
