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searchsoleil) wrote2007-06-21 05:57 pm
searchsoleil) wrote2007-06-21 05:57 pm
Drive-by posting!
Hey look! I made a fanmix! (Hikaru&Sai)
Also, I'm just gonna post my next update for 50books, despite the fact that it is lacking a great deal of logic and also titles to back up the numbers.
A couple of things have prevented me from updating this sooner. 1) I suddenly lost track of how much manga I had bought/read, which means I still have no idea where I am in my manga count. I'm just going to estimate that I've read fourteen manga since my last manga update, even though that number is a gross underestimate. 2) We went into a play unit which I had no idea how to deal with considering that almost all of what I read was either part of a larger textbook or from Project Gutenberg. In the end, I came up with a 5/3 ratio of plays/books and 5/200 of plays/pages, both of which I will round down to the nearest whole number.
Progress:
Books:
Pages:
What's Been Read:
Also, I'm just gonna post my next update for 50books, despite the fact that it is lacking a great deal of logic and also titles to back up the numbers.
A couple of things have prevented me from updating this sooner. 1) I suddenly lost track of how much manga I had bought/read, which means I still have no idea where I am in my manga count. I'm just going to estimate that I've read fourteen manga since my last manga update, even though that number is a gross underestimate. 2) We went into a play unit which I had no idea how to deal with considering that almost all of what I read was either part of a larger textbook or from Project Gutenberg. In the end, I came up with a 5/3 ratio of plays/books and 5/200 of plays/pages, both of which I will round down to the nearest whole number.
Progress:
Books:
| |
43 / 50 (86.0%) |
Pages:
| |
13,219 / 15,000 (88.1%) |
What's Been Read:
Manga Batch #6: Uh, yeah. Your guess is as good as mine.
The Dark Is Rising: This book was about four times more interesting than Over Sea, Under Stone, but that isn't really much of a compliment. You'll notice I haven't bothered to read the rest of the sequence. Will is love though. *pinches his ickle cheeks*
Guards! Guards!: AHAHA, the minute I finished this book, Captain Vimes went into my Literary Five list. This book was just painted all over with awesome. I had a fever when I read it, but the book actually had to be pried out of my hands when I kept falling asleep trying to read it.
His Majesty's Dragon: A THOUSAND YEARS OF WONDERFUL TO THIS BOOK. Fantasy AU of the Napoleonic Wars featuring the relationship between a man (Laurence) and his dragon. I have actually re-read this book multiple times already. It honestly just knocked my socks off. I cannot recommend this book enough.
Throne of Jade: The sequel to His Majesty's Dragon. The first part of this book is a continuance of the amazing from Book 1, but the main plot left a sour taste in my mouth. Basically, what I love best about HMD is the OMGSOBEAUTIFULWORDSCANNOTEXPRESS growth of the bond between Laurence and Temeraire. This book tests that bond to the limits and I don't think that tension ever really gets settled in a satisfying way. While it is obvious that they still cherish each other very very very (x 1000000) much, they are never going to see eye to eye about the realities of life as a companion to a dragon and a citizen of England.
Black Powder War: As an action/adventure Napoleonic War story, this one really blows the other two out of the water, but yeah, Temeraire and Laurence dynamic still riddled with issues. Their bond better get a major reaffirmation next book, or else I shall be mightily displeased. :(
Witch Week: Guy Fawkes FTW! I think it is physically impossible for DWJ to put out a mediocre book. Another slam dunk in the Chrestomanci series.
Conrad's Fate: Uh, yeah. I seriously can't even tell you. Christopher just pwns everything in the world, especially as a kid.
Plays: Oedipus, A Doll's House, King Lear, Village Wooing, Androcles and the Lion, Pygmalion, Saint Joan; Oedipus is a great play. I really got into the themes and the motifs, even as I was biting my nails for Oedipus, poor guy. I wrote a better response about this in March. A DOLL'S HOUSE. AHH. Uh, yeah, I think one of my favorite moments in literature (having never seen it performed I wouldn't know about how it comes off in drama) is the end where a flash of hope crosses Torvald's face and he says something like "the most miraculous thing--?" and then there is the sound of NORA SHUTTING THE DOOR ON ALL OF HIS HOPES. HOLY CRAP, IBSEN. YESSSS. King Lear. Meh. King Lear was okay, but there are better plays of his. Although yes, I was all over Edmund and Edgar. They were incredibly interesting characters. SHHHHHHAAAAAAWWWWWWWW. Village Wooing is LOVE OF ENOUGH COLORS TO FILL THE ALPHABET, even on the second reading. Androcles and the Lion had me clutching my sides laughing. Pygmalion is just as awesome as it ever was and always will be, although I also think that Shaw's logic about why Eliza and Higgins don't get together is flawed in about 8000 ways, but that is neither here nor there. Saint Joan is rightfully called his masterpiece. It killed me dead when I read it and I really regret that I was rushing to finish it, because it deserved to be savored.
Manga Batch #7: I will say that Backstage Prince is the cutest shoujo I've read in a long time. That definitely has been read in the past five months.