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Oops, Missed Wednesday Reading
Nov. 16th, 2017 08:41 amI was mostly off the internet yesterday, alas, so I'll have to enumerate my reading accomplishments a day late. I read 5 volumes (28 chapters) of a yaoi called Twittering Birds Never Fly / Saezuru Tori wa Habatakanai by Yoneda You, which I loved. I have a weird attraction to kinky yakuza stories, and this fit that bill perfectly. I'm still working slowly through my bath book, Scarlett. I also finished a few more volumes of Yotsuba&! / Yotsuba to! . There are thirteen volumes of that one and I've been reading two or three a week. It's still a perfectly gentle story, which is GREAT for those moments when I just want something kind of mindless and sweet.
When I worked at the library last Thursday night, I noticed that Shoreview featured volume 3 of Kill a Kill in their new YA manga section. I had not idea they had ANY of that series, so I went ahead and requested the first two volumes. They came yesterday, so they're currently at the bottom of the stack of remaining Yotsuba&! (8-13). Kill a Kill is one of those manga/anime that I heard about a lot several years ago. Mostly I remember some article or other in Otaku USA about how a maid cafe featuring characters from Kill a Kill was opening in Tokyo. That's the extent of my knowledge about it. So, it should be interesting to see what it even *is*.
Otherwise, I've been keeping my "pagan new year"* resolution to be more sociable. On Tuesday night, I reconnected with a old friend (and fellow writer) Barth Anderson. It's actually kind of a funny story how we ended up inviting him over for coffee and desert. He posted on FB that he'd had a dream that I had "stolen his prose" and so he went over to my house and stole my peonies. I don't think Barth even knows that we, in fact, HAVE peonies, but it was such a funny dream that I went I chimed in over on his thread about it, I said, "I think your subconscious is trying to say we should get together!" So we made plans. Barth has been having some up and downs in his life since the last time we hung out, but we had such a blast chatting--he came over at 6:30 and stayed until 10!--I'm really hopeful we can do it again soon.
I can check off the "was social" box for this week, for sure!
I also made plans to get together with a friend from work, Dominique, at a coffee shop on Monday late morning, so I'm set to meet my goal for next week, too.
The whole thing with Dominique happened because we were talking about how Minnesotans are so funny about getting close to people. It's always "hey, let's do a thing" and it doesn't amount to anything. I talked about this here, before. I don't think Minnesotans do this with evil intentions. I suspect that when people say "Oh, hey, we should do dinner some time" they initially MEAN it. But, there's just a culture here in this state for some reason *cough-I blame the early Scandinavian settlers-cough* where it's just easy to let those kinds of casual invitations lie... I almost wonder if it's a case of each party waiting on the other to make the first move. At any rate, after talking about this, Dominique said, "Hey we should hang out and have coffee some time!"
And we're actually making that happen, which is awesome.
Also when I was at the library picking up Kill a Kill, I picked up the book that one of the book clubs I was thinking about joining is reading. I don't remember when that meeting is happening. I'd better check in case I need to get reading. But, the point is, I am doing the social thing. Go me!
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*Halloween
When I worked at the library last Thursday night, I noticed that Shoreview featured volume 3 of Kill a Kill in their new YA manga section. I had not idea they had ANY of that series, so I went ahead and requested the first two volumes. They came yesterday, so they're currently at the bottom of the stack of remaining Yotsuba&! (8-13). Kill a Kill is one of those manga/anime that I heard about a lot several years ago. Mostly I remember some article or other in Otaku USA about how a maid cafe featuring characters from Kill a Kill was opening in Tokyo. That's the extent of my knowledge about it. So, it should be interesting to see what it even *is*.
Otherwise, I've been keeping my "pagan new year"* resolution to be more sociable. On Tuesday night, I reconnected with a old friend (and fellow writer) Barth Anderson. It's actually kind of a funny story how we ended up inviting him over for coffee and desert. He posted on FB that he'd had a dream that I had "stolen his prose" and so he went over to my house and stole my peonies. I don't think Barth even knows that we, in fact, HAVE peonies, but it was such a funny dream that I went I chimed in over on his thread about it, I said, "I think your subconscious is trying to say we should get together!" So we made plans. Barth has been having some up and downs in his life since the last time we hung out, but we had such a blast chatting--he came over at 6:30 and stayed until 10!--I'm really hopeful we can do it again soon.
I can check off the "was social" box for this week, for sure!
I also made plans to get together with a friend from work, Dominique, at a coffee shop on Monday late morning, so I'm set to meet my goal for next week, too.
The whole thing with Dominique happened because we were talking about how Minnesotans are so funny about getting close to people. It's always "hey, let's do a thing" and it doesn't amount to anything. I talked about this here, before. I don't think Minnesotans do this with evil intentions. I suspect that when people say "Oh, hey, we should do dinner some time" they initially MEAN it. But, there's just a culture here in this state for some reason *cough-I blame the early Scandinavian settlers-cough* where it's just easy to let those kinds of casual invitations lie... I almost wonder if it's a case of each party waiting on the other to make the first move. At any rate, after talking about this, Dominique said, "Hey we should hang out and have coffee some time!"
And we're actually making that happen, which is awesome.
Also when I was at the library picking up Kill a Kill, I picked up the book that one of the book clubs I was thinking about joining is reading. I don't remember when that meeting is happening. I'd better check in case I need to get reading. But, the point is, I am doing the social thing. Go me!
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*Halloween