Weekly reading/watching meme (pt.2)

[petronia]

The other entry was getting ridiculously long, and I had to go to my D&D game. XD;

What will you read/watch next?

In theory after I finish the Anne Carson, but knowing myself probably concurrently, I'll finish the last 10 pages I have left to Unfinished Tales then move onto Mark Atherton's There And Back Again, which is the first Tolkien litcrit I've come across that appears liable to hold my interest. It's also about time I started back on Pilgrim At Tinker Creek again (deliberate hiatus: I want this reading to match the weather).

Other stuff that is left deliberately out in the "to read ASAP" pile, for the record:

• Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays


• Jean Anouilh, Pièces roses


• John Compton Sundman, Cheap Complex Devices: slow going.


• Guardians of the Galaxy #0.1 and #1: not getting into the actual comics/manga backlog which is ridiculous, but I should probably read these to figure out if I want to keep buying it. Though I will, out of curiosity, since Neil Gaiman will be writing the series from issue 5 on (as I've been informed ad nauseam XD;).


• Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E. vol.1-2: apart from these, which are on loan from Erin and should go back.


• Steel Ball Run vol.20, 23-24: and these. You see we have a problem.

BONUS QUESTION: what books/movies did you acquire?

Aside from the aforementioned:

• Denyse Beaulieu, The Perfume Lover: a blogger I appreciate greatly.


• Nick Harkaway, The Gone-Away World: a Twitter presence, and also his book was 1) on sale for $5 and 2) covered in hot pink velvet.


• Ben Aaronovitch, Moon Over Soho: also on sale. I sneaked three pages of Aaronovitch when I was at flemmings's house, enough to rate him roughly as a version of Jim Butcher I can appreciate. So. XD;


• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Chronicles - Art & Design: the Weta coffee table book.


• Ruth Padel, Darwin: A Life In Poems: had an eye out for this forever. It's basically me, Ruth Padel, and Karin Dreijer Anderssen on this particular tip, folks.


• "Supervert," Extraterrestrial Sex Fetish: I greatly look forward to the recommendations Amazon'll hit me with after I buy a book called Extraterrestrial Sex Fetish.


• Lois McMaster Bujold, Brothers In Arms: gave G. Cetaganda for his birthday. We're getting there.


• The Invincible Iron Man vol.6: I now I have a four-volume straight run if I ever get around to reading it.


• Journey Into Mystery vol.3: ditto.


• Young Avengers (2013), #1-2: I will get to this eventually!

Comments

Re: G of the G

[ephemerides]

My interest in the title is fairly much summed up by: is the raccoon still in it?

Although I'm not sure I have confidence I trust Gaiman to write the raccoon in a way I am interested in. DILEMMAS.

(I'm looking to get Sacrifice somehow, because New Order fan in Aztec land (or is he) is definitely my speed.)

Re: G of the G

[petronia]

The raccoon is still in it with a vengeance. The raccoon gets his own chibi variant cover. OTOH -- without actually rebooting or anything -- everything's been subtly sleight-of-handed to centre on 1) Earth and 2) Star-Lord's brooding movie-hunk bad-boy daddy issues. I find the latter choice appalling and I wasn't even there for the preceding continuity. XD But it's Bendis and McNiven (for the moment anyway), it's a good read, and I can get onboard if it turns out that the Star Emperor is just straight up Lionel Luthor out of Smallville, which is what the story seems to threaten.

Oh, and Iron Man is on the team. For the record. I'm halfway through a "I see what ur doin thar Marvel" Tumblr post, it seems to me the master plan is not without thematic finesse.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

The first three pages of Moon Over Soho isn't exactly typical Aaronovitch, though IIRC the tone is typical Peter. You should read Rivers/Riot first though, if you haven't.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Well, the three pages weren't out of this one, they were out of yours XD (Rivers, I think).

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Oh well then. That *is* absolutely typical Aaronovitch.