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What have you finished reading?
Get Over It by Mary Shyne - This was fun, but i felt like it didn't do enough for my own mental health. Still, I wish I could fistfight emotional problems instead of crying about it. The art and concept were really exceptional.
What are you currently reading?
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by Adrienne Maree Brown - No progress from V this week.
Matchmaker by Cam Marshall - This is a fun, queer slice of life comic. Nothing ground breaking, but I've been In A Mood(tm) lately so its been better to not have to think too critically.
Transitional Object by Adrian Silbernagel - Its poetry! (bought in a coffee shop in louisville). It really straddles the line of obtuse, but its just vague enough to keep me ruminating on each poem. For a random pick up (recommended by the barista ofc) its good.
And so, we might as well tally up 2023:
Total books/poetry read:
17
Total comics:
83
Total=100
== And here's a look back at the past years:==
2022
28 books (includes poetry)
36 comics
total of 64
2021
22 books
79 comics
total of 101
2020
21 books
106 comics
total of 127
2019
17 books
106 comics
total of 123
Of course my life went to shit, so I'm a little surprised to see me do much better than 2022. Still two years prior I read much more book-books than usual. There were months at a time where I could barely read. And there were weeks at a time where I didn't read because I was talking to my long-distance partner. So I'm glad to see I'm more or less getting back to where I was.
I have a lot of favorite candidates this year. The top one is one I just picked up for my partner, A, too: Murderfalcon. A fun metal themed romp that turns out to be devastatingly heartrending. It made me cry (everything makes me cry) and its just really exceptional. The art is rad too.
The impending blindness of billie scott was also really endearing to me. I read it after being destroyed by heartbreak and wanting to create again. It grabbed me and while the artist's next comic was maybe a little too meta, I can obviously really relate to them.
Irl, a comic about grief, that I forgot to take with me. But isn't that fitting?
Wake, a comic about women-led Black slave rebellions was phenomenal. It really gripped me and I enjoyed it quite a bit.
Always never, a comic about a love with bad timing just. hit me everywhere all at once. It was what I needed at the time. And its still heartbreaking to me. I actually had to buy a copy for myself, although I half-wonder if my divorce and subsequent rekindling of things with L caused me to really attach myself to this.
Lastly, the only book-book, Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow is another bad timing not-romance book. And it was constantly captivating and I couldn't put it down. Considering this book was everywhere, I'm sure I'll eventually be able to pick up a used copy to add to my shelf.
So yeah. Books in 2023. Onward to 2024.
Get Over It by Mary Shyne - This was fun, but i felt like it didn't do enough for my own mental health. Still, I wish I could fistfight emotional problems instead of crying about it. The art and concept were really exceptional.
What are you currently reading?
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by Adrienne Maree Brown - No progress from V this week.
Matchmaker by Cam Marshall - This is a fun, queer slice of life comic. Nothing ground breaking, but I've been In A Mood(tm) lately so its been better to not have to think too critically.
Transitional Object by Adrian Silbernagel - Its poetry! (bought in a coffee shop in louisville). It really straddles the line of obtuse, but its just vague enough to keep me ruminating on each poem. For a random pick up (recommended by the barista ofc) its good.
And so, we might as well tally up 2023:
Total books/poetry read:
17
Total comics:
83
Total=100
== And here's a look back at the past years:==
2022
28 books (includes poetry)
36 comics
total of 64
2021
22 books
79 comics
total of 101
2020
21 books
106 comics
total of 127
2019
17 books
106 comics
total of 123
Of course my life went to shit, so I'm a little surprised to see me do much better than 2022. Still two years prior I read much more book-books than usual. There were months at a time where I could barely read. And there were weeks at a time where I didn't read because I was talking to my long-distance partner. So I'm glad to see I'm more or less getting back to where I was.
I have a lot of favorite candidates this year. The top one is one I just picked up for my partner, A, too: Murderfalcon. A fun metal themed romp that turns out to be devastatingly heartrending. It made me cry (everything makes me cry) and its just really exceptional. The art is rad too.
The impending blindness of billie scott was also really endearing to me. I read it after being destroyed by heartbreak and wanting to create again. It grabbed me and while the artist's next comic was maybe a little too meta, I can obviously really relate to them.
Irl, a comic about grief, that I forgot to take with me. But isn't that fitting?
Wake, a comic about women-led Black slave rebellions was phenomenal. It really gripped me and I enjoyed it quite a bit.
Always never, a comic about a love with bad timing just. hit me everywhere all at once. It was what I needed at the time. And its still heartbreaking to me. I actually had to buy a copy for myself, although I half-wonder if my divorce and subsequent rekindling of things with L caused me to really attach myself to this.
Lastly, the only book-book, Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow is another bad timing not-romance book. And it was constantly captivating and I couldn't put it down. Considering this book was everywhere, I'm sure I'll eventually be able to pick up a used copy to add to my shelf.
So yeah. Books in 2023. Onward to 2024.
