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schmericaVacation so far has been pretty much nothing but reading. Books read so far--
Rubicon: the Last Years of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland. Ancient history, amazingly good.
Point of Honour by Madeleine E. Robins. First in the Sarah Tolerance; alternate history Regency noir. AWESOME.
Black Powder War by Naomi Novik. Less to my taste than the first two Temeraire books (more battle scenes and less characterization and society stuff), but still very good.
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld. I've been somewhat iffy on the whole "YA novels taking place in future seems-to-be-utopia-which-turns-out-to-be-dystopia rebellion oh noes!" genre ever since I was the only person in the world not to like The Giver, but this was pretty fun, and gets better as it goes along; I'll be reading the rest of the trilogy.
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman. Currently about two thirds of the way through. I'm not in love with it -- it might be my least favorite Gaiman so far. But my least favorite Gaiman is still worlds ahead of most other stuff.
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My official soundtrack for my weeklong summer vacation, if you are curious, consists of two songs: Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard doing "Pancho and Lefty," and Jonathan Coulton doing "Re: Your Brains." Make of this what you will.
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My father brought home strawberries today from the roadstands! Oh frabjous day, calloo, callay! (Fresh summer fruit is on my list of things that one is better off buying from the side of the road than an actual stores. Not on this list: everything else in the entire world.)
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My parents' dvd player is not working right this week, apparently. It will play some stuff, but not others, with very little method to its madness. One of the things that does work, apparently, are all of my sister's first season NCIS dvds. So, uh. Maybe I'll be watching that in between my reading? Hm.
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If I were in the mood to buy comics, a) what would you guy recommend, especially in terms of collections? and b) where is a good place to buy online?
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Callum Keith Rennie is hot.
Rubicon: the Last Years of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland. Ancient history, amazingly good.
Point of Honour by Madeleine E. Robins. First in the Sarah Tolerance; alternate history Regency noir. AWESOME.
Black Powder War by Naomi Novik. Less to my taste than the first two Temeraire books (more battle scenes and less characterization and society stuff), but still very good.
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld. I've been somewhat iffy on the whole "YA novels taking place in future seems-to-be-utopia-which-turns-out-to-be-dystopia rebellion oh noes!" genre ever since I was the only person in the world not to like The Giver, but this was pretty fun, and gets better as it goes along; I'll be reading the rest of the trilogy.
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman. Currently about two thirds of the way through. I'm not in love with it -- it might be my least favorite Gaiman so far. But my least favorite Gaiman is still worlds ahead of most other stuff.
*****
My official soundtrack for my weeklong summer vacation, if you are curious, consists of two songs: Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard doing "Pancho and Lefty," and Jonathan Coulton doing "Re: Your Brains." Make of this what you will.
*****
My father brought home strawberries today from the roadstands! Oh frabjous day, calloo, callay! (Fresh summer fruit is on my list of things that one is better off buying from the side of the road than an actual stores. Not on this list: everything else in the entire world.)
*****
My parents' dvd player is not working right this week, apparently. It will play some stuff, but not others, with very little method to its madness. One of the things that does work, apparently, are all of my sister's first season NCIS dvds. So, uh. Maybe I'll be watching that in between my reading? Hm.
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If I were in the mood to buy comics, a) what would you guy recommend, especially in terms of collections? and b) where is a good place to buy online?
*****
Callum Keith Rennie is hot.
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22/6/06 00:54 (UTC)You mentioned Gaiman, so I'm assuming you've already hit Sandman. You might like the Lucifer spinoff by Mike Carey. The most fun/interesting things I've read lately are Brian Wood & Becky Cloonan's Demo, a collection of slice-of-life stories about teenagers with psychic powers and Brian K. Vaughan & Pia Guerra's Y: The Last Man.
Manga I love and recommend as starter books:Nana, Saiyuki, Fruits Basket--hmm. For you I'd probably recommend starting with Fruits Basket, since I think you'd appreciate the ongoing theme of people trying to learn how to be kind to each other. Which sounds sappy, especially when you add in the cotton-candy pink and mint green covers, but the series isn't sappy.
Re: Comics
22/6/06 01:35 (UTC)Re: Comics
23/6/06 01:39 (UTC)Oh, and my favorite Westerfeld novel is Peeps, even though in general I am SO TIRED of vampire novels.