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I’ve been pretty distractable/busy lately, so I’ve been bouncing between several books without making much progress in any of them. What I’m currently reading:
What I’ll probably read after that:
I don’t really remember…
My favorite comic series when I was little was Turma da Mônica. (Monica’s Gang in English.) I had one or two of the picture books, but mostly I’d buy as many issues of the comic as I could at newsstands in Brazil and then read them when I got back to the States. It’s a really cute series about a group of friends running around their neighborhood and being strange. My favorite character was Mônica herself, but my second-favorite was a character from some of the side-stories, Dona Morte. (The Grim Reaper, or literally “Ms. Death”—Death in most Latin countries is female.) I guess my tastes haven’t changed much; nowadays I’m all about Death of the Discworld!
I have to pick a favorite author now? You ask too much of me, Book Challenge! Here’s ten.
I think they’re in order, but I make no guarantees.
I wanted to write an explanation for each of these, but this post was getting way too long. Some of them I’ve already covered, anyway. But since I can never resist the temptation to rant about books, I might make each of these a separate post.
Hopefully you guys are enjoying these posts…I’m having fun writing them!
I was on a roll with blogging and then busyness occurred. I sorta have a job now! O_O
I’m glad I at least had a few things in my queue to tide me over, but I missed a couple of days of the book challenge—it asked a bunch of hard questions in a row! Questions like “who is your favorite author?” I can’t just pick one! I made a Top-10 list, and then I started writing explanations that grew kind of enormous in themselves. I’ll finish it eventually, but it’s going to be loooooong.
Oh, and I got the new Terry Pratchett book. Haven’t had time to start it yet, but of course it’s going to be amazing.
Some links: (Nothing about this post has anything to do with anything. Just go with it. ^_^ )
A life in writing: Terry Pratchett—An article about Sir Pterry from The Guardian.
The Coastal Circuit—A Cthulhu mythos story by D.S. Carmon. There’s an amazing reading of it here.
My Fanfiction.net account—Now with actual contents! (The Harry Potter fic I posted here earlier, which I decided was more than a one-shot. I’m on Chapter 3, and I’m having enough fun with it that I’m starting to consider writing some original fiction for kids.)
Hollywood Dishonors the Bard—A New York Times Op-Ed about Anti-Stratfordians and the fact that they are jerks. (Ad hominem…whatever, they deserve it. They also have no evidence. But mostly they’re jerks.)
Discworld. Specifically, Lancre. Specifically, when I grow up I want to be Granny Weatherwax. I don’t want to be like Granny Weatherwax. I want to be. Granny. Weatherwax.
…actually, Lancre’s kind of a shitty place to live if you’re not Granny Weatherwax.
Yeah…the thing is, I like fantasy. And in fantasy, everyone who’s not the hero is a redshirt. I don’t wanna be a redshirt.
(Let’s please ignore the fact that real life’s like that too, kthx.)
I wouldn’t mind living in A Song of Ice and Fire’s Dorne, I think. The Dornish are all unbelievably hot, the food is good, the weather is warm, and the nobles are less awful than in other parts of Westeros. (Not to mention the rest of the world!) But all that has to be a setup for something really, really horrible, right? We all know what GRRM is like.
Um…maybe the alternative-universe England of the Temeraire series? Rampant sexism and no flushing toilets, but…dragons! Really adorable dragons! Who have recently invented the concept of labor unions! And if I was a dragonrider, anyone who was sexist to me would get a faceful of acid, so I guess that’s not really a problem. Still no flushing toilets, though. I like flushing toilets.
Basically, I’m going to find something wrong with whatever world you put me in. I just like complaining. ^_^
The Discworld series. I love those books! My favorite storylines are the ones featuring Death, the Lancre witches, and Sam Vimes—really, the only ones I don’t like so much are the Rincewind ones, and even those are still pretty awesome.
Another funny book is The Incorporated Knight, by L. Sprague and Catherine Crook de Camp. (A married couple—de Camp is both of their surnames. That confused me for ages.) It’s a really clever parody of quest fantasy. I keep meaning to read some of the other books by either/both of them, but they’re kinda hard to find…they might even be out of print. If that’s the case, it’s really too bad.
Anyone who follows me can probably guess—it’s Lord of the Rings. Not just for its own sake, (although it’s a wonderful book and I love it to bits…literally) but also for its role in essentially creating the fantasy genre—the genre that I read more than anything, and that it’s my dream to add to professionally. That said, LOTR isn’t something I reread too often, for obvious reasons.
Other favorite books at the moment (what, you seriously expect me to answer that question with only one?) include the A Song of Ice and Fire series, anything set in Discworld, The Left Hand of Darkness, Tipping the Velvet, and the Sandman comic books.
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