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castalieI thought I'd be back much earlier, if only to rave about Daredevil but - believe it or not - I still haven't watched the whole season! I think we've made it as far as episode 8. I don't know either, it's a mystery. Hopefully I'll have the time to finish it this week and finally be able to join the conversation with those of you who are ahead of me.
In the meantime, I'm sticking to my monthly bookish entry, so here I am, posting the March edition of my sorta!BookTube series.
Wrap-up (books I read this month):
1Q84 Livre 1 Avril-Juin by Haruki Murakami: a very strange novel. I'm not familiar with Murakami's work so I'm not sure whether the writing in 1Q84 is typical or not. It took me a bit of time to get into the story but I persevered till (thankfully) it clicked. I bought the second volume in the series; I'll see from there if I want to keep going and maybe try his other novels.
Kings Rising by CS Pacat: I loved that last installment so much! It was such a rollercoaster and I enjoyed every sentence of it! It also made me want to re-read the whole series (especially the first volume). I've been reading Captive Prince fic pretty much every single day since I finished it. There are some brilliant fic out there, this is definitely a fandom that makes me happy :)
Le grand n'importe quoi by J.M Erre: the title says it all. The book is completely cracked, the story insane. I sometimes thought the author was trying a bit too hard to be clever and witty but, overall, it worked and it was fun. Like with Murakami, I'll try another book and see if I want to try more.
The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss. The novel is set in The Kingkiller Chronicles 'verse and tells us a bit more about Auri, a character we meet in the first volume. It was a strange story, poetic and haunting, written quite differently from the rest of the series.
Reading (well, you know):
Carry on by Rainbow Rowell. I feel like everyone involved in fandom knows of Carry on and Fangirl but in case you've never read or heard about the pretty popular Fangirl (by the same author); it's your regular coming-of-age story with a young woman starting university and dealing with all the things you deal with when leaving childhood and entering adulthood with the added "twist" that the main protagonist is a, you guessed it, fangirl who happens to be a BNF in the very popular Simon Snow fandom, a replica of the Harry Potter 'verse IRL. As it happens, the novel is punctuated by scenes from her Simon/Baz fic. I had issues with the book but I absolutely loved those extracts. Anyway. Unsurprisingly, people loved Simon and Baz and Rainbow Rowell actually wrote a whole novel set in the Simon Snow 'verse. We're talking about a whole novel based on fictional fanfic based on a fictional literary series based on a real-life fictional world, how fun (and meta) is that? And it works. It really does. Also, obviously, it has a m/m canon storyline, one that is really compelling to read. Between Carry on and Kings Rising, I've been enjoying some nice m/m the past weeks ;)
Trigger Warning by Neil Gaiman. Shorts stories aren't my first choice when looking for a book but there are some authors I can't resist and Neil Gaimain is definitely one of them. As usual, I'm enjoying his writing tremendously
In the meantime, I'm sticking to my monthly bookish entry, so here I am, posting the March edition of my sorta!BookTube series.
Wrap-up (books I read this month):
1Q84 Livre 1 Avril-Juin by Haruki Murakami: a very strange novel. I'm not familiar with Murakami's work so I'm not sure whether the writing in 1Q84 is typical or not. It took me a bit of time to get into the story but I persevered till (thankfully) it clicked. I bought the second volume in the series; I'll see from there if I want to keep going and maybe try his other novels.
Kings Rising by CS Pacat: I loved that last installment so much! It was such a rollercoaster and I enjoyed every sentence of it! It also made me want to re-read the whole series (especially the first volume). I've been reading Captive Prince fic pretty much every single day since I finished it. There are some brilliant fic out there, this is definitely a fandom that makes me happy :)
Le grand n'importe quoi by J.M Erre: the title says it all. The book is completely cracked, the story insane. I sometimes thought the author was trying a bit too hard to be clever and witty but, overall, it worked and it was fun. Like with Murakami, I'll try another book and see if I want to try more.
The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss. The novel is set in The Kingkiller Chronicles 'verse and tells us a bit more about Auri, a character we meet in the first volume. It was a strange story, poetic and haunting, written quite differently from the rest of the series.
Reading (well, you know):
Carry on by Rainbow Rowell. I feel like everyone involved in fandom knows of Carry on and Fangirl but in case you've never read or heard about the pretty popular Fangirl (by the same author); it's your regular coming-of-age story with a young woman starting university and dealing with all the things you deal with when leaving childhood and entering adulthood with the added "twist" that the main protagonist is a, you guessed it, fangirl who happens to be a BNF in the very popular Simon Snow fandom, a replica of the Harry Potter 'verse IRL. As it happens, the novel is punctuated by scenes from her Simon/Baz fic. I had issues with the book but I absolutely loved those extracts. Anyway. Unsurprisingly, people loved Simon and Baz and Rainbow Rowell actually wrote a whole novel set in the Simon Snow 'verse. We're talking about a whole novel based on fictional fanfic based on a fictional literary series based on a real-life fictional world, how fun (and meta) is that? And it works. It really does. Also, obviously, it has a m/m canon storyline, one that is really compelling to read. Between Carry on and Kings Rising, I've been enjoying some nice m/m the past weeks ;)
Trigger Warning by Neil Gaiman. Shorts stories aren't my first choice when looking for a book but there are some authors I can't resist and Neil Gaimain is definitely one of them. As usual, I'm enjoying his writing tremendously
