Thursday Reading and General Catching Up
Mar. 29th, 2018 09:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lydamorehouseI read almost no books again this week, but I've been on a huge manga kick. I've been posting reviews nearly every day (which might actually be driving my readers away....) At any rate, things I read this week include:
Aogeba Toutoshi by Jiraiya
Mahou Tsukai no Yome / Ancient Magus’ Bride by Yamazaki Kore
Kakuritsu Sousakan Mikoshiba Gakuto / Probability Investigator Mikoshiba Gakuto by Kaminaga Gakuto
Owari Nochi, Asanagi Kurashi / Giant Spider & Me: A Post-Apocalyptic Tale (Vol. 1) by Morino Kikori
Nigeta Hitsuji no Tsukamaekata by Aoyama Toomi
Watashi Sekai o Kouseisuru Chiri no You na Nani ka / The Feelings We All Must Endure by Amano Shuninta
Fushigi Neko no Kyuu-chan / Wonder Cat Kyuu-chan by Nitori Sasami
Lupin Sensei / Lupin III (Vols. 1 – 4) by Monkey Punch
Of these, I would recommend Wonder Cat Kyuu-chan, which is an adorable 4-chome (4 panel) comedy webtoon about a kid who picks up an abandoned cat. It's relatable to anyone, anywhere who has ever owned a cat. Giant Spider & Me: A Post-Apocalyptic Tale is the most amazing manga series ever, in that it's an honest-to-god cooking manga (with recipes!) that also follows the story of a young girl who has been abandoned by her family in an after the fall of civilization world and the mutated GIANT spider (the size of a car) that she... befriends? It's kind of amazing.
All the cool kids are reading/watching Ancient Magus' Bride, so I finally go around to it... and was... conflicted. My review about it is on MangaKast, if you're curious, but I presume most of the people who read me here are not likely to follow me over there. (That's not a dis, but the reason I don't review my manga on this blog is because I know that it's kind of my own separate thing.)
I'm probably going to bring a couple of novels with me to MiniCON this weekend because I do have a few moments of scheduled downtime, and I'm often very wound up at night after a full day of panel discussions, etc. A book might help me chill. I am going to bring along my laptop, so you'll probably get a day-by-day con report.
This weekend, as it happens, is also Mason's big robotics competition. Today, he and his team are off from school and headed over for the unpacking and "inspection." They have the day to do any last minute adjustments to the robot and to practice with it. Tomorrow competition begins. Shawn and I are going to try to stop by and watch a little, if we have a chance. Shawn took the day off work, just because. Public school is out for NOT EASTER a.k.a. teacher work day (or whatever the official excuse it is to give Christians Good Friday off.) Saturday is the main event, though many teams will be eliminated by then. Mason is NOT convinced his team will get that far, but he should have a good time, regardless. Luckily for us, it's at the University of Minnesota in stadium village and with his bus/train pass Mason can legitimately take care of himself getting to and from, if need be. (He could technically walk home. We're a straight shot up University Avenue.) But, his girlfriend is also a member of the team and she's already agreed to give him rides, should he need it.
Because I'm at the hotel the whole weekend and will have the car.
I'm looking forward to MiniCON. Even though I posted my schedule, I wouldn't expect you all to read it, so I want to point out the very coolest thing... the interviewnaomikritzer is doing with me on Saturday will also be "with" Tate. I jokingly said to the MiniCON planners "Ha ha, wouldn't it be funny if I answered Tate's questions with a sock puppet." To which they said, "Ha ha, fandom will do you one better" and they LEGITIMATELY made a MUPPET of me as Tate. The puppet is so complex they had to schedule a puppeteer.
A puppet-f*cking-teer!
I sh*t you not.
This should be.... wild. I hope to high heaven that someone is planning on filming the interview. In some ways, I have NO IDEA how this is going to actually work, in other ways, I can only imagine that it's going to be AMAZING.
Aogeba Toutoshi by Jiraiya
Mahou Tsukai no Yome / Ancient Magus’ Bride by Yamazaki Kore
Kakuritsu Sousakan Mikoshiba Gakuto / Probability Investigator Mikoshiba Gakuto by Kaminaga Gakuto
Owari Nochi, Asanagi Kurashi / Giant Spider & Me: A Post-Apocalyptic Tale (Vol. 1) by Morino Kikori
Nigeta Hitsuji no Tsukamaekata by Aoyama Toomi
Watashi Sekai o Kouseisuru Chiri no You na Nani ka / The Feelings We All Must Endure by Amano Shuninta
Fushigi Neko no Kyuu-chan / Wonder Cat Kyuu-chan by Nitori Sasami
Lupin Sensei / Lupin III (Vols. 1 – 4) by Monkey Punch
Of these, I would recommend Wonder Cat Kyuu-chan, which is an adorable 4-chome (4 panel) comedy webtoon about a kid who picks up an abandoned cat. It's relatable to anyone, anywhere who has ever owned a cat. Giant Spider & Me: A Post-Apocalyptic Tale is the most amazing manga series ever, in that it's an honest-to-god cooking manga (with recipes!) that also follows the story of a young girl who has been abandoned by her family in an after the fall of civilization world and the mutated GIANT spider (the size of a car) that she... befriends? It's kind of amazing.
All the cool kids are reading/watching Ancient Magus' Bride, so I finally go around to it... and was... conflicted. My review about it is on MangaKast, if you're curious, but I presume most of the people who read me here are not likely to follow me over there. (That's not a dis, but the reason I don't review my manga on this blog is because I know that it's kind of my own separate thing.)
I'm probably going to bring a couple of novels with me to MiniCON this weekend because I do have a few moments of scheduled downtime, and I'm often very wound up at night after a full day of panel discussions, etc. A book might help me chill. I am going to bring along my laptop, so you'll probably get a day-by-day con report.
This weekend, as it happens, is also Mason's big robotics competition. Today, he and his team are off from school and headed over for the unpacking and "inspection." They have the day to do any last minute adjustments to the robot and to practice with it. Tomorrow competition begins. Shawn and I are going to try to stop by and watch a little, if we have a chance. Shawn took the day off work, just because. Public school is out for NOT EASTER a.k.a. teacher work day (or whatever the official excuse it is to give Christians Good Friday off.) Saturday is the main event, though many teams will be eliminated by then. Mason is NOT convinced his team will get that far, but he should have a good time, regardless. Luckily for us, it's at the University of Minnesota in stadium village and with his bus/train pass Mason can legitimately take care of himself getting to and from, if need be. (He could technically walk home. We're a straight shot up University Avenue.) But, his girlfriend is also a member of the team and she's already agreed to give him rides, should he need it.
Because I'm at the hotel the whole weekend and will have the car.
I'm looking forward to MiniCON. Even though I posted my schedule, I wouldn't expect you all to read it, so I want to point out the very coolest thing... the interview
naomikritzer is doing with me on Saturday will also be "with" Tate. I jokingly said to the MiniCON planners "Ha ha, wouldn't it be funny if I answered Tate's questions with a sock puppet." To which they said, "Ha ha, fandom will do you one better" and they LEGITIMATELY made a MUPPET of me as Tate. The puppet is so complex they had to schedule a puppeteer. A puppet-f*cking-teer!
I sh*t you not.
This should be.... wild. I hope to high heaven that someone is planning on filming the interview. In some ways, I have NO IDEA how this is going to actually work, in other ways, I can only imagine that it's going to be AMAZING.
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Date: 2018-03-29 06:22 pm (UTC)Looking forward to the interview!
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Date: 2018-03-30 06:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-03-31 11:08 am (UTC)