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Finished reading:
Mooncakes by Wendy Xu and Susanna Walker. This was so sweet, and I was charmed by the art style. Many points for the diversity rep (MC is Hard of Hearing and uses a hearing aid, and the other protagonist uses they/them pronouns). It was a cozy read, and I'm glad I bought it, but it's also an example of trying to do too many things at once means you don't quite do any of them really well. It was an excellent set up, but taking one or two of its topics and really focusing on those rather than shorthanding and shoehorning and bunch in would have made it a far stronger graphic novel.
Currently reading:
Power and magic, volume 1, edited by . Case in point, this is a graphic *anthology* of very short stories. It was a Kickstarter I backed-and-forgot, so it was a v pleasant surprise when these two turned up in the mail. The covers are gorgeous. I'm a touch sad the interior is entirely black and white, but The second, five-page story managed to do a tight focus on friendship-to-relationship really deftly, to the point where I paused reading there to savour the experience rather than launching into the next one.
Mr Norrell and Johnathan Strange This is going to be on my currently reading for ages, I think. I'm reading a few pages before bed, for example, so it's going to take pleasantly forever. This has been bitingly, startlingly funny in places, although I see what people mean when they say in the first part nothing happens. But that's also sort of the point of my reading, so I'm good with that.
Up next:
> The invisible life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab (for sampling)
> The once and future witches by Alix E. Harrow (I loved January) SO MUCH I'm almost nervous to pick this one up
> The city we became by N. K. Jemisin (I keep hearing Good Things, so sampling)
> Anxious people by Fredrick Backman (on reserve from the library)
> Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (a long time off, once I've finished JS&MR…)
Mooncakes by Wendy Xu and Susanna Walker. This was so sweet, and I was charmed by the art style. Many points for the diversity rep (MC is Hard of Hearing and uses a hearing aid, and the other protagonist uses they/them pronouns). It was a cozy read, and I'm glad I bought it, but it's also an example of trying to do too many things at once means you don't quite do any of them really well. It was an excellent set up, but taking one or two of its topics and really focusing on those rather than shorthanding and shoehorning and bunch in would have made it a far stronger graphic novel.
Currently reading:
Power and magic, volume 1, edited by . Case in point, this is a graphic *anthology* of very short stories. It was a Kickstarter I backed-and-forgot, so it was a v pleasant surprise when these two turned up in the mail. The covers are gorgeous. I'm a touch sad the interior is entirely black and white, but The second, five-page story managed to do a tight focus on friendship-to-relationship really deftly, to the point where I paused reading there to savour the experience rather than launching into the next one.
Mr Norrell and Johnathan Strange This is going to be on my currently reading for ages, I think. I'm reading a few pages before bed, for example, so it's going to take pleasantly forever. This has been bitingly, startlingly funny in places, although I see what people mean when they say in the first part nothing happens. But that's also sort of the point of my reading, so I'm good with that.
Up next:
> The invisible life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab (for sampling)
> The once and future witches by Alix E. Harrow (I loved January) SO MUCH I'm almost nervous to pick this one up
> The city we became by N. K. Jemisin (I keep hearing Good Things, so sampling)
> Anxious people by Fredrick Backman (on reserve from the library)
> Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (a long time off, once I've finished JS&MR…)
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