A Late Wednesday Reading
Mar. 6th, 2024 06:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lydamorehouse My TBR pile has not gotten measurably shorter.
I did, at least, on the recommendation ofhippogriff13 read the amazing seinen manga The Summer Hikaru Died by Mokumoku Ren. I only had the first volume out from the library and I loved it so much that I had to go find everything else that was available online. Then I also read literally everything else that Mokumoku-sensei has had published. I'm not sure I can recommend this manga enough, though it comes with a lot of caveats, namely that hauntingly sad. Also, I was expecting slice-of-life from the title? Nope. It's full-on supernatural/supernatural-horror. Because, as we learn on page one, Hikaru is dead, but something else comes back wearing his body.
Also, the art is amazing. Like, truly.
Otherwise, my pile remains static. It's been a strangely busy time for me. I find publicity for book releases to be as tiring as it is necessary. I am deeply excited to see these books in print, however. I made a little video of my unboxing, if you all want to see it. I probably should have combed my hair before filming, but I WAS JUST THAT EXCITED.
Also, Shawn continues to have a number of doctor appointments--all of which are follow-ups, but it still require me to play taxi and drive all around town.
Mason is coming home on Friday night, so Shawn and I had a "date night observed" last night. We got some hamburgers to go and sat in front of the computer and streamed The Voyagers, which was, as its Rotten Tomato scores suggest, OKAY. As I told Shawn halfway through, it's a bit like "What if Lord of the Flies, but Space... and also they work it out (possibly because there are women)?"
I did, at least, on the recommendation of
hippogriff13 read the amazing seinen manga The Summer Hikaru Died by Mokumoku Ren. I only had the first volume out from the library and I loved it so much that I had to go find everything else that was available online. Then I also read literally everything else that Mokumoku-sensei has had published. I'm not sure I can recommend this manga enough, though it comes with a lot of caveats, namely that hauntingly sad. Also, I was expecting slice-of-life from the title? Nope. It's full-on supernatural/supernatural-horror. Because, as we learn on page one, Hikaru is dead, but something else comes back wearing his body.Also, the art is amazing. Like, truly.
Otherwise, my pile remains static. It's been a strangely busy time for me. I find publicity for book releases to be as tiring as it is necessary. I am deeply excited to see these books in print, however. I made a little video of my unboxing, if you all want to see it. I probably should have combed my hair before filming, but I WAS JUST THAT EXCITED.
Also, Shawn continues to have a number of doctor appointments--all of which are follow-ups, but it still require me to play taxi and drive all around town.
Mason is coming home on Friday night, so Shawn and I had a "date night observed" last night. We got some hamburgers to go and sat in front of the computer and streamed The Voyagers, which was, as its Rotten Tomato scores suggest, OKAY. As I told Shawn halfway through, it's a bit like "What if Lord of the Flies, but Space... and also they work it out (possibly because there are women)?"
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Date: 2024-03-08 04:15 pm (UTC)And, yeah, there was no way I could wait. Scanlators/pirates have the first two volumes and part of the third available of The Summer Hikaru Died and it just gets better and better. I refuse to feel guilty reading ahead because I will be buying these. They're already in my in-box on Amazon.
I have a weird relationship with pirates, anyway. Without pirates I wouldn't have had e-book editions. This is a story I've told many times, but the truth is that when I sold the AngeLINK series e-books weren't a thing. My books were already out of print when they were and, even though I had copies of my drafts on various technology, I didn't have an final/copyedited/offical electronic copy of my books when I finally got my rights reverted. My small press publisher and I used Torrent to get official copies. I mean, the other option back in the day was ripping apart a book and scanning it which... it was also difficult to find remaining physical copies of my books.
So, pirates saved my career.