So I Don't Know, What Do I Know?

[lydamorehouse]

I didn't think I could get hit with post-convention blues/ennui after a virtual con, but I was feeling it a bit yesterday. Shawn pointed out that what I was experiencing could also have been a bit of empty nest, since Mason is well and truly settled back in to his dorm in Connecticut and we are down to just the two of us rattling around this big house.

Shawn is at work, in-person today, visiting the Ramsey County Medical Examiner's office and getting a tour. I told her to take a lot of notes, because, as many of you know, I write about a county coroner (which is a different job, sort of, in that it does NOT require a medical degree.) I have some plans to write the next Alex Connor book once I finish this space opera that's been eating my brain. At any rate, I can't wait to hear all about it, once she gets home.

Since today is Wednesday, I will close with my manga to-be-read pile.

I just picked up a bunch of new-to-me titles at the library, none of which I've started yet which include:

• Asadora! (which I lie, I actually read and really loved the first volume of) by Urasawa Naoki. My review of the first volume here: https://mangakast.wordpress.com/2022/05/07/asadora-volume-1-by-naoki-urasawa/
• Blood on the Tracks by Oshimi Shuzo, which looks like it might be horror? I dunno, at the library I grab anything I haven't read that has a first volume.
• Gantz (Omnibus, volume 1) by Oku Hiroya, looks like a lot of shooting
• Dementia 21 by Kago, which I see now is volume 2, so I might return it unless I can find volume 1 scanlated
• Blade of the Immortal (Deluxe edition, volume 1) by Samura Hiroaki, which is quite old, but which I have never read. It might be the one I start with since the art looks quite lovely.

How about you all? What have you been reading?

Comments

[caffeine]

IIRC, Gantz (the Anime) had a ton of violence and gore and some rather confusing early episodes. I think I might have DVDs (I need to check, I might have put them in the Anime Fusion swap back in the before times).

[offcntr]

Just finished the latest Toby Daye novel from Seanan McGuire, but haven't had the energy to read the novella in the back. Instead, I went back to one of my favorite comfort reads, Janet Kagan's Hellspark. Read it all while firing the kiln yesterday afternoon.

[magenta]

At least with a virtual con, you don't have con crud. I am suffering from lack of good sleep, and had problems with motion sickness because the lower level of the train had the seats going backwards.

I have not read much of anything the last week or so, between getting ready for the Chicon and being there, mostly the program book and other materials. We carefully took most of our library books back, so I have nothing new to read right now. Did not acquire more books at con, amazingly. The only thing I bought was steampunk chocolate, in the shape of gears etc.

I have a long list of books I want to get, but either the library or Dreamhaven. Not anime, but I recently read and enjoyed "The Peculiarities" by David Liss.

[j00j]

Just finished _A Half Built Garden_-- polyamorous family helps make first contact with aliens! There is governance process nerdiness and climate science! Also finished _Dead Collections_ (vampire archivist romance) for this month's Think Galactic since it's online still.