random bits

[meganbmoore]

1.  This is already making the rounds pretty well, but Vol 3 of Bride of the Water God will be out next May, and Vol 4 next September.  Which is an appalling long wait (at least there isn't a whole lot of plot to forget...) but at least there's more coming out.

2.  Has anyone read Jo Walton?  I've had her recced to me before and looked at one of her books (The King's Peace?) at the bookstore while they were hunting for my special order (what with the 20 or so unpacked boxes of Breaking Dawn that I saw, I can see how it got lost in the shuffle) but stopped halfway through the back cover blurb at the "family was murdered and she was gang raped by half a dozen attackers and that's why she grew up to be a strong warrior" part.  As that's on the cover blurb, I don't consider it a spoiler.)  While I know that trope can be handled well, and often is, it's something of an automatic turnoff.  Any opinions or recs on the author?

3.  Also at the bookstore, they were playing behind the scenes footage for the Twilight movie.  Everyone but the leads was acting like it was the best thing ever.  Both of them were clearly struggling to think of anything positive to say about the story or their characters.

4.  And also at the bookstore, a random guy popped up and asked me if I was single.  As in, I did not know he was there until I heard "Excuse me, are you single?"  Am I weird in that my first thought isn't "oh, very direct flirting" but "OMG WHAT?"  (Mind you, I am notorious for never noticing if I'm being flirted with in the first place...)

5.  Someone want to point me to a torrent for the subbed ep 2 of Blade of the Immortal?  I don't think I remembered to bookmark where I got ep 1 from.

Comments

[retsuko.livejournal.com]

Since you're the only person I know who reads this manga, I will ask you the burning question on my mind: what legends is the plot of Bride of the Water God based on? I feel like I'm missing out on some fundamental element of the story, but can never figure out what I should be reading to fill in the gaps.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Hmm...I'm not sure it's based on a specific legend, though it might be. The whole "village girl sacrificed to the gods, but the god spirits her away to his world" thing isn't really uncommon in mythologies, though.