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Wednesday Reading Meme
Mar. 26th, 2014 05:01 pmA lot of what would normally be my reading time lately has been taken over by playing Hay Day, which is just a touch too addictive.
What are you currently reading
Rereading rarewomen canon.
What did you recently finish reading?
Manna From Hades, A Colourful Death and The Valley of the Shadow by Carola Dunn. A trio of mysteries set in Cornwall in the 60s. The main characters are Eleanor Trewynn, a former world traveler who now works for a charity shop and practices judo, and her niece, Megan Pancarrow, a detective sergeant with the police force. The approach is fairly light and nostalgic, though it has some more serious subjects, such as sexism and racism. They won't go down as favorites, but I enjoyed them, and wish there were more. (Maybe there will be? The last one came out in 2012, but I think she's still mostly focused on the Daisy Dalrymple books, which I haven't read yet.)
Legend of the Condor Heroes: Book One by Jin Jong.
-The 2008 version that I watched pretty much left out most of what happened in about ch 2-6. And while I get not wanting to add 10 episodes to your series to detail Genghis Khan's rise to power and get to your protagonist being an adult, there were some pretty pertinent things that happened as far as Guo Jing's training and such that would have made some early episodes make a lot more sense.
-I confess to being bored until Huang Rong showed up. But now she is there and trolling everyone and thinking circles around all the men and plotting, and all is well.
-I could really do with less emphasizing on how Guo Jing's mother is a plain simple farmgirl and Yang Kang's mother is pure and has a sensitive heart.
-So far I mind Yang Kang and Wanyan Honglie much, much less than in the TV adaptation. Not trying to make Kang a poor woobie and admitting to his being a spoiled brat whose main redeeming quality is that he loves his mother doesn't make me like him more, but it makes him less annoying. I actually kind of like Wanyan Honglie, so far, but suspect that won't last.
-Though the above does make me question Ninanci's taste in men even more.
-I find it odd that I'm 1/4 through the book and at point where I was about 1/10th through the TV series.
What do you think you'll read next?
More rarewomen rereading, and I have a bunch of manga from the library, mostly newly released volumes of series I already follow.
What are you currently reading
Rereading rarewomen canon.
What did you recently finish reading?
Manna From Hades, A Colourful Death and The Valley of the Shadow by Carola Dunn. A trio of mysteries set in Cornwall in the 60s. The main characters are Eleanor Trewynn, a former world traveler who now works for a charity shop and practices judo, and her niece, Megan Pancarrow, a detective sergeant with the police force. The approach is fairly light and nostalgic, though it has some more serious subjects, such as sexism and racism. They won't go down as favorites, but I enjoyed them, and wish there were more. (Maybe there will be? The last one came out in 2012, but I think she's still mostly focused on the Daisy Dalrymple books, which I haven't read yet.)
Legend of the Condor Heroes: Book One by Jin Jong.
-The 2008 version that I watched pretty much left out most of what happened in about ch 2-6. And while I get not wanting to add 10 episodes to your series to detail Genghis Khan's rise to power and get to your protagonist being an adult, there were some pretty pertinent things that happened as far as Guo Jing's training and such that would have made some early episodes make a lot more sense.
-I confess to being bored until Huang Rong showed up. But now she is there and trolling everyone and thinking circles around all the men and plotting, and all is well.
-I could really do with less emphasizing on how Guo Jing's mother is a plain simple farmgirl and Yang Kang's mother is pure and has a sensitive heart.
-So far I mind Yang Kang and Wanyan Honglie much, much less than in the TV adaptation. Not trying to make Kang a poor woobie and admitting to his being a spoiled brat whose main redeeming quality is that he loves his mother doesn't make me like him more, but it makes him less annoying. I actually kind of like Wanyan Honglie, so far, but suspect that won't last.
-Though the above does make me question Ninanci's taste in men even more.
-I find it odd that I'm 1/4 through the book and at point where I was about 1/10th through the TV series.
What do you think you'll read next?
More rarewomen rereading, and I have a bunch of manga from the library, mostly newly released volumes of series I already follow.
