Wednesday Reading! Hey, I Read Stuff...

[lydamorehouse]

 This week, I read a lot of manga.  I stormed through My Hero Academia / Boku no Hero Academia by Kohei Horikoshi, reading volumes 2-8 in a matter of days.  That almost catches me up to everything currently out in official tankōbon, and the library let me know that volume 9 is awaiting me in the hold section. Last I checked this one is being actively scanlated and the pirate sites have up to chapter 158 or so. I have yet to decide if I'm a mega-fan.  I've been very burned by JUMP products (do not speak to me of Bleach or Naruto's endings. Other people blame the creators, but I blame the publishers. It's a writer thing.) 

I also ripped through the available chapters online (1-15) of its spin-off Vigilante My Hero Academia: Illegals / Vigilante Boku no Hero Academia: Illegals by Furuhashi Hideyuki / Beeten Court.  

Speaking of spin-offs, I also read Gangsta: Cursed (vols. 1-2)  by Kohske / Syuhei Kamu, which kind of sucked, but made me remember just how much I LOVED the original by Kohske-sensei.  I've reviewed all of these over at my manga reading blog, MangaKast, if you're interested to know what I thought of them.

I also got a chance to beta-read naomikritzer 's novel, currently titled Everyone Loves Cat Pictures.

Whew, I think that's it. I have one more manga upstairs, Not so Simple by Natsume Ono in my TBR pile, and I also watched the first episode of Elegant Yokai Apartment Life, which I think I'm going to continue as the anime I watch while doing dishes. 

You?  How'd you do this week?

Comments

[offcntr]

I'm struggling through The Delirium Brief, Charles Stross' new Laundry Files novel. Not that it's bad, just a little... close to the bone? Considering the current political climate.

Kind of like the time I had to put down Donald Westlake's The Axe because I'd just been laid off from a production pottery job and couldn't find the humor in a guy who kills off his competitors for the job he wants.

[lydamorehouse]

Yeah, it's kind of interesting how the current political climate changes how/what I want to read. I really think that I will often turn to light manga a lot more when the world is full of darkness. There have totally been books I've had to put down because I did NOT need to go into a horrible political space when I'm already living one.

:-(

Ah, well.