bookblogging
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ceruseeGraphic novels:
Stassen, Jean-Philippe: Deogratias: A Tale of Rwanda
(this is the most depressing thing I have read this week).
Various: Graphic Classics: Gothic Classics
(I've already read Northanger Abbey, and was familiar with "Carmilla" from having heard a version of the radio play based on the story--it follows it very closely, except for having a little looser of an ending, I think--so the highlight of this for me was The Mysteries of Udolpho. It's a ridiculously overblown story, but knowing the highlights adds a bit to the experience of Northanger Abbey, which references Ann Radcliffe's work and makes a little bit of fun of it.
I don't really know how "At the Gate" fits into the Gothic tradition--maybe my sense of the term is too narrow?--but I liked it. Doggie souls camped out at the gates of heaven waiting for the souls of their masters and mistresses in life, so they can go in together--not because they aren't allowed in alone, but because heaven isn't heaven to a dog without the beloved human companion? Yes, I teared up).
Manga:
Oda Eiichiro: One Piece vols. 3-4
(the awesome thing about manga like this is that it takes me about ten minutes to read a volume. And when I say, "read," I mean, "flip rapidly through the pages and read any words that are bolded and enlarged, which is the only part of the dialogue necessary to follow the action.").
Stassen, Jean-Philippe: Deogratias: A Tale of Rwanda
(this is the most depressing thing I have read this week).
Various: Graphic Classics: Gothic Classics
(I've already read Northanger Abbey, and was familiar with "Carmilla" from having heard a version of the radio play based on the story--it follows it very closely, except for having a little looser of an ending, I think--so the highlight of this for me was The Mysteries of Udolpho. It's a ridiculously overblown story, but knowing the highlights adds a bit to the experience of Northanger Abbey, which references Ann Radcliffe's work and makes a little bit of fun of it.
I don't really know how "At the Gate" fits into the Gothic tradition--maybe my sense of the term is too narrow?--but I liked it. Doggie souls camped out at the gates of heaven waiting for the souls of their masters and mistresses in life, so they can go in together--not because they aren't allowed in alone, but because heaven isn't heaven to a dog without the beloved human companion? Yes, I teared up).
Manga:
Oda Eiichiro: One Piece vols. 3-4
(the awesome thing about manga like this is that it takes me about ten minutes to read a volume. And when I say, "read," I mean, "flip rapidly through the pages and read any words that are bolded and enlarged, which is the only part of the dialogue necessary to follow the action.").