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ceruseeGraphic novels:
Avi, author, Brian Floca, artist: City of Light, City of Dark
(so very, very excellent. I amused myself by trying to translate the bits of Spanish dialogue without looking at the English captions for them. I didn't do very well, but I appear to have remembered more of my high school Spanish than I realized.
YA plot structure is so recognizable! I think I would have identified it as being a YA book even if I hadn't seen Avi's name on the cover).
Sabatini, Rafael, author, Various: Graphic Classis: Rafael Sabatini
(I haven't read any Sabatini before--don't look at me like that; I wasn't an English major--and I was pleasantly surprised by how much I liked his style. Very fun stuff).
Bell, Gabrielle: Lucky
(or, when slice-of-life gets whiney.
Sorry, that's not fair. I did really like it, but I constantly wanted to shout at the boyfriend, "Just pick an apartment and stay in it! I'm tired of reading about the author helping you move and you deciding to stop checks you wrote to innocent tenants who thought they'd found a roommate, you jerk." Maybe it's a New York real estate thing, where you have to move fast and put down a deposit on an apartment you want to rent ASAP lest you lose it, but I really disapprove of writing checks in bad faith, particularly when it's done habitually).
Manga:
Hirano Kohta: Hellsing vol. 3
(Doing wonders for the image of the Catholic church, those side stories are).
Watase Yuu: Absolute Boyfriend vol. 4
(I can no longer remember whether I read volume 3. I might have. I dunno.
This is not gonna go down in history as my favorite Watase manga, but man, I always dig her style. I'd rather be reading Ceres, it's just never at the library when I'm there).
Avi, author, Brian Floca, artist: City of Light, City of Dark
(so very, very excellent. I amused myself by trying to translate the bits of Spanish dialogue without looking at the English captions for them. I didn't do very well, but I appear to have remembered more of my high school Spanish than I realized.
YA plot structure is so recognizable! I think I would have identified it as being a YA book even if I hadn't seen Avi's name on the cover).
Sabatini, Rafael, author, Various: Graphic Classis: Rafael Sabatini
(I haven't read any Sabatini before--don't look at me like that; I wasn't an English major--and I was pleasantly surprised by how much I liked his style. Very fun stuff).
Bell, Gabrielle: Lucky
(or, when slice-of-life gets whiney.
Sorry, that's not fair. I did really like it, but I constantly wanted to shout at the boyfriend, "Just pick an apartment and stay in it! I'm tired of reading about the author helping you move and you deciding to stop checks you wrote to innocent tenants who thought they'd found a roommate, you jerk." Maybe it's a New York real estate thing, where you have to move fast and put down a deposit on an apartment you want to rent ASAP lest you lose it, but I really disapprove of writing checks in bad faith, particularly when it's done habitually).
Manga:
Hirano Kohta: Hellsing vol. 3
(Doing wonders for the image of the Catholic church, those side stories are).
Watase Yuu: Absolute Boyfriend vol. 4
(I can no longer remember whether I read volume 3. I might have. I dunno.
This is not gonna go down in history as my favorite Watase manga, but man, I always dig her style. I'd rather be reading Ceres, it's just never at the library when I'm there).
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on 2008-06-28 12:23 am (UTC)City of Light, City of Dark is out of print and so un-orderable for my little bookstore. This makes me VERY CRANKY!
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on 2008-06-28 01:04 am (UTC)Out of print? Really? Bummer.
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on 2008-06-28 05:30 am (UTC)Out of print! Not hard to find secondhand, but no longer available in new retail. It makes no sense. There should be a Never Allowed To Go Out Of Print clause in books that accept the Newberry Medal; I would gladly trade COLCOD for Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon.
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on 2008-07-03 01:36 am (UTC)no subject
on 2008-07-03 04:12 am (UTC)A bildungsroman, maybe?