Media Roundup: Mostly Printed Mater
Apr. 9th, 2019 02:39 pmYotsuba&!, Vols 2-7 by Kiyohiko Azuma This slice of life manga about 5 year old Yotsuba and her friends and neighbors is really cute!
Golden Kamuy vol 1 by Satoru Noda I continue to enjoy this rather gory historical fiction manga. Its maybe a little info-dumpy but I'm into info dumps about how to catch and eat squirrels and other wilderness survival stuff. The art is very pretty I love how detailed the costumes and tools are. Plus I've started to care about the characters -- the story is getting more of found family vibe as it goes on.
Yona of the Dawn Vol 1-2 by Mizuho Kusanagi This was rec'ed to me by a friend who loves it, but I'm not finding very compelling. It just seems to have lot of tropes that I'm bored with in YA, dead moms, lost heirs seeking revenge, shifting alliances. I doubt this is fair but its not what I'm in the mood for right now so I'm not going to keep reading the series.
A Drifting Life by Yoshihiro Tatsumi trans. Taro Nettleton manga memoir about a mangaka in post war Japan. Since I've been reading a lot of manga lately I thought I'd like to learn a bit more about the history of form. This was maybe a bit more focused on publishing that I was looking for but was still fascinating. And as and add bonus I enjoyed the built enviroment details about the various places he lived.
The Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World by Emma Marris I'm starting to get frustrated with ecology books that acknowledge that Native Americans manged the landscape before European settlement but don't acknowledge that Native Americans are still around and value those practices for cultural reasons. Aside form that problem this pretty good introduction to the idea that there's no such thing as untouched wilderness and some of the practical implications of that. Since I've studied environmental history none of these ideas where new to me but it was nice to have them in one small book.
Not For Use In Navigation: Thirteen Stories by Iona Datt Sharma I'm about halfway through this collection. The stories in it are so beautiful! but I'm reading it pretty slowly because they are the kind of stories that I need focus on, and then I want to let that story sink in before I rush off and read the next one. Still very much recommenced. (NB I received an ARC of this form the author)
Guardian I finished watching this! It was such an intense experience! I'm not really sure what to say about it. I loved it but I also found the ending pretty heartbreaking. Also I'm still confused about quite a lot things. But I've found some other people's thoughts to read and that helped make sense of some of the things. Maybe I will write some more coherent thoughts up in bit. For now I'm excited to go lurk in the fandom. Its very nice for me that the show has pretty active fandom here on DW. I can actually find conversations. Maybe I will be brave an join in.
Golden Kamuy vol 1 by Satoru Noda I continue to enjoy this rather gory historical fiction manga. Its maybe a little info-dumpy but I'm into info dumps about how to catch and eat squirrels and other wilderness survival stuff. The art is very pretty I love how detailed the costumes and tools are. Plus I've started to care about the characters -- the story is getting more of found family vibe as it goes on.
Yona of the Dawn Vol 1-2 by Mizuho Kusanagi This was rec'ed to me by a friend who loves it, but I'm not finding very compelling. It just seems to have lot of tropes that I'm bored with in YA, dead moms, lost heirs seeking revenge, shifting alliances. I doubt this is fair but its not what I'm in the mood for right now so I'm not going to keep reading the series.
A Drifting Life by Yoshihiro Tatsumi trans. Taro Nettleton manga memoir about a mangaka in post war Japan. Since I've been reading a lot of manga lately I thought I'd like to learn a bit more about the history of form. This was maybe a bit more focused on publishing that I was looking for but was still fascinating. And as and add bonus I enjoyed the built enviroment details about the various places he lived.
The Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World by Emma Marris I'm starting to get frustrated with ecology books that acknowledge that Native Americans manged the landscape before European settlement but don't acknowledge that Native Americans are still around and value those practices for cultural reasons. Aside form that problem this pretty good introduction to the idea that there's no such thing as untouched wilderness and some of the practical implications of that. Since I've studied environmental history none of these ideas where new to me but it was nice to have them in one small book.
Not For Use In Navigation: Thirteen Stories by Iona Datt Sharma I'm about halfway through this collection. The stories in it are so beautiful! but I'm reading it pretty slowly because they are the kind of stories that I need focus on, and then I want to let that story sink in before I rush off and read the next one. Still very much recommenced. (NB I received an ARC of this form the author)
Guardian I finished watching this! It was such an intense experience! I'm not really sure what to say about it. I loved it but I also found the ending pretty heartbreaking. Also I'm still confused about quite a lot things. But I've found some other people's thoughts to read and that helped make sense of some of the things. Maybe I will write some more coherent thoughts up in bit. For now I'm excited to go lurk in the fandom. Its very nice for me that the show has pretty active fandom here on DW. I can actually find conversations. Maybe I will be brave an join in.
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