February Book Post
So I stole this from hh and converted it to metric, because I use Imperial measurements as curse words. So the theory is that I'm reading to the moon at a page = a kilometre. I started recording with the beginning of the Spring semester, and I'm going to try to update about monthly.
This update includes 14 books or 2906 pages.
On my graphic, that looks like this:
Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot. I know this play so well it felt like I'd read it before. Although, honestly, I'm pretty sure I'd read at least the first 20 pages before.
Brian Malloy - Brendan Wolf. The main character's hero might be Chris McCandless, but in no way is Brendan glorified like McCandless is in Into the Wild. It has this touch where Brendan spent less time explaining his thoughts to us this could pass as surreal.
Julie Anne Peters - Luna. It's YA from the POV of a the sister of a transgender girl. I don't know. In some ways it was very well-done and all that. It just didn't impress me terribly much. I think that's more a matter of the intended audience than anything else, though. Someone would have to be more knowledgeable about YA (and being transgender) than me to say if it was everything it should have been. It was an enjoyable reading, but I skimmed more than I usually do, because I don't feel like reading about teenage crushes.
Mohja Kahf - E-Mails from Scheherazad. This is a book of poetry by an Arab-American woman. I thought her poems were quite good/intriguing. She's great at capturing the emotion of a scene, which is kind of what poetry needs.
Shel Silverstein - A Light in the Attic. Honestly I'd only read a couple of Shel Silverstein poems before. They were surreal, and a couple were a bit creepy, but for the most part they were light-hearted and fun.
Anthology - Does Your Mama Know?. An anthology of Black Lesbian Coming Out stories. My main issue with this book is that at 293 pages, with an average of less than ten pages per story, these were surface examinations and they got a little repetitive.
Marshall Moore - The Concrete Sky. Fairly clever dialogue. The plot kind of staggers back and forth between "Oh yeah, saw that coming" and "Wait, what?!" It was an enjoyable read though, and fun to read something set in DC.
James McBride - The Color of Water. I read this in High School and remembered it as being fairly good. I was not disappointed.
Fabian Nicieza - Cable & Deadpool: If Looks Could Kill. ZOMG, Cable & Deadpool! So much love and amazingness.
Fabian Niceiza - Deadpool vs. The Marvel Universe. Yeah. I don't really know much Marvel beyond what I pick up from the movies, so this was very confusing. Still funny, but not as satisfying.
Alex Sanchez - Bait. YA, this one I quite liked. Sanchez successfully paints his main character as a fairly complex, and not always easy-to-identify with but overall still likable, character. Also, does a good job of addressing that sexual child abuse does not lead to homosexuality.
Jim Hines - Goblin Quest. Funny, but disturbing at times.
Fabian Nicieza - Cable & Deadpool: The Burnt Offering. Cable and Deadpool working together makes the same kind of sense most wacky crossovers do. It's so much fun.
Donald Hall - The One Day. Odd. It's a poem, and more like a mosaic of experiences than a story.
Bold if I'd highly recommend them.
This update includes 14 books or 2906 pages.
On my graphic, that looks like this:
2906 / 384403
0.756%
0.756%
Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot. I know this play so well it felt like I'd read it before. Although, honestly, I'm pretty sure I'd read at least the first 20 pages before.
Brian Malloy - Brendan Wolf. The main character's hero might be Chris McCandless, but in no way is Brendan glorified like McCandless is in Into the Wild. It has this touch where Brendan spent less time explaining his thoughts to us this could pass as surreal.
Julie Anne Peters - Luna. It's YA from the POV of a the sister of a transgender girl. I don't know. In some ways it was very well-done and all that. It just didn't impress me terribly much. I think that's more a matter of the intended audience than anything else, though. Someone would have to be more knowledgeable about YA (and being transgender) than me to say if it was everything it should have been. It was an enjoyable reading, but I skimmed more than I usually do, because I don't feel like reading about teenage crushes.
Mohja Kahf - E-Mails from Scheherazad. This is a book of poetry by an Arab-American woman. I thought her poems were quite good/intriguing. She's great at capturing the emotion of a scene, which is kind of what poetry needs.
Shel Silverstein - A Light in the Attic. Honestly I'd only read a couple of Shel Silverstein poems before. They were surreal, and a couple were a bit creepy, but for the most part they were light-hearted and fun.
Anthology - Does Your Mama Know?. An anthology of Black Lesbian Coming Out stories. My main issue with this book is that at 293 pages, with an average of less than ten pages per story, these were surface examinations and they got a little repetitive.
Marshall Moore - The Concrete Sky. Fairly clever dialogue. The plot kind of staggers back and forth between "Oh yeah, saw that coming" and "Wait, what?!" It was an enjoyable read though, and fun to read something set in DC.
James McBride - The Color of Water. I read this in High School and remembered it as being fairly good. I was not disappointed.
Fabian Nicieza - Cable & Deadpool: If Looks Could Kill. ZOMG, Cable & Deadpool! So much love and amazingness.
Fabian Niceiza - Deadpool vs. The Marvel Universe. Yeah. I don't really know much Marvel beyond what I pick up from the movies, so this was very confusing. Still funny, but not as satisfying.
Alex Sanchez - Bait. YA, this one I quite liked. Sanchez successfully paints his main character as a fairly complex, and not always easy-to-identify with but overall still likable, character. Also, does a good job of addressing that sexual child abuse does not lead to homosexuality.
Jim Hines - Goblin Quest. Funny, but disturbing at times.
Fabian Nicieza - Cable & Deadpool: The Burnt Offering. Cable and Deadpool working together makes the same kind of sense most wacky crossovers do. It's so much fun.
Donald Hall - The One Day. Odd. It's a poem, and more like a mosaic of experiences than a story.
Bold if I'd highly recommend them.