Here we are for ROUND 2–I think I’m doing this for every 10-ish books I’ve read, so a new post whenever that happens!
This one’s got a few comics in it because we just did MCAF & TCAF and I was in the MOOOOOD~
I also picked up a library card so we’re really cookin’ now~
READS CONTINUED:
[between March 2026 & June 2026]
MOONFLOW – BITTER KARELLA this one…I could see what it was doing. I appreciated a lot of how weird it totally got. But I’m not sure it stuck the landing, or was quite my personal thing. I can’t decide. I’m glad it exists for those who will enjoy it but it was not totally for me.
THE WORKS OF VERMIN – HIRON ENNES god…I’m not sure I could stop thinking about this one even if I tried. It pretty much did everything I wish I could pull off in a story. It was strange and the characters were so fucking fantastic. I wanted more… but I don’t know how they could have packed more into this one. It was incredible. I’m looking forward to rereading it when I get the chance, just to pick up on the subtleties I missed in my first read through…. to watch all the threads coalesce into that fucking ending. Wow. Incredible. Thank you, Hiron.
BETWEEN TWO FIRES – CHRISTOPHER BUEHLMAN reading this one right after reading Works of Vermin was a hell of a way to go. I really liked the structure for this story. I liked the choppier aspects, the stilted prose really gave it a certain character and made it feel like it was a translation, which kind of added a really charming quality to it (yeah despite the whole, plague, horrible demons, cannibalism what have you). I was fascinated by it the whole way through. I’ll definitely need to go back to this one. I was travelling a lot in my read and I know I missed some of the detail via distractions on said travelling.
MALGRÉ TOUT – JORDI LAFEBRE j’étais introduit à cette artist parmis mon ami qui a visité pour le FBDM, elle cherchais le livre et c’étais mon idée d’essayé notre local, Planète BD et voilà. J’ai eu la chance de m’immerser et wow. Les dessins, l’histoire. Tellment charmante. Tellment inspirant. Incroyable. (This one’s a French translation from Spanish I believe… I’m gonna try and up my game here and start by immersing myself in French comics to help with my own bilingualism… my speech is good but my writing is… rough).
GLOBETROTTERS: NELLIE BLY & ELISABETH BISLAND WORLD TOUR – JULIAN VOLOJ & JULIE ROCHELEAU beautiful artwork, as always Rocheleau is incredible. I have a few of her tomes already just for her artistry. The story itself was fun, non-fiction about how one woman took on the challenge to travel the world in less than 80 days, and another woman tasked with beating her to the punch. There was a lot of interesting play between the expectations of a woman who takes charge and makes her way, and the women who are expected to live up to and challenge that name for the sake of entertainment.
IN UNIVERSES – EMET NORTH this one is gonna stick with me for a long time. It’s definitely not gonna be for everyone but the main character resonated with me pretty deeply and the theme circling around mistakes and self-blame was a type of catharsis I didn’t realise I was even looking for at this point in my life. This book not only cradled me but tore me open and poked its fingers all over my heart. I’ll have to pick up a physical copy at some point. (MY first stint into Library reading through Libby!! idk why it took me so long!!)
AUTOMATIC NOODLE – ANNALEE NEWITZ…….. i really just wish this one was actually about robots making a lil noodle shop.
THE VOW – ARDEN RIPLEY & JULIAN CORMAC the art was absolutely incredible… and what a BEAST (size???) for comics! It had a lot of moments I really really wanted to like but I felt I couldn’t seem to sit with for very long? Which sounds insane because this book is a TOME. But everything felt like it was going kind of at full speed.
RODNEY R. RODNEY – V. BRIAT this book was so funny. It just scratched the itch on my right kind of humour (i found myself laughing quietly throughout). The drawings were insane, the scratchier art style really just pulled everything together. Rodney, my beloved freak. I also just liked how the strips emulated this newspaper cartoon strip–it lent itself really well to the story progression! Admittedly I bought this book at TCAF because I’d read a few of the strips on Tumblr and thought they were hilarious, so i couldn’t stop myself from seizing the chance while I had it!
HELL FOLLOWED WITH US – ANDREW JOSEPH WHITE uhmmm I’m glad this was borrowed from the library! I came across it a couple times at Argo books and–it was the type of book I wanted to read but had a sneaking suspicion it wasn’t gonna live up to what I was hoping for. In the end I think I’m too old for this one haha.
Here I was going to add another one because I’m nearly done but you know what? Fuck it. It’ll go in the next post~
If you’re reading these posts (whoever you are) and have any reading suggestions I’m always down to try~ You’ve probably got a decent grasp of my taste so far.
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