RIP (Read In Progress) Wednesday

[falkner]

What are you reading? Are you reading?

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[dancesontrains]

Read 'The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas for a book club; very well done and struck a good combination of sad and hopeful. Also read some volumes of 'Witch Hat Atelier', which continues to be delightful, along with 'The Tea Dragon Society' GN. Zoomed through books 2 to 5 of 'Enola Holmes', which is also a delight.

As for work aimed at older audiences - was disgusted by Guy Delisle's 'Pyongyang' autobiographical GN, the art was good but he forgets to treat the North Koreans he's around as human (giving his translator '1984' with no context, describing some nasty sexualised things he'd like to do to women he meets whom he finds attractive and non-sexualised things to those he doesn't fancy, generally mocking them for the bad luck of being born in one of the worst coutnries around). Had a far better time with the excellent if sad 'A Small Revolution' GN by Boum, a comic about children under a harsh dictatorship who make their own attempts to fight back.

Started 'Hild' by Nicola Griffith, only 10% in (60 pages) so can't offer a review yet. Was brought out of the narrative somewhat by Hild reciting the 'Men are scared women will laugh at them, women are scared men will kill them' quote in seventh century (what will become) England.