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...paperback and hardcover books, that is.
I wish I'd thought of taking hour-long breaks sooner since I live and work close to a library. It's only a few minutes' walk to there from my office, so I can sneak away at lunch and come back with something new to read. Most of my reading material of interest comes from the "young adult" (obviously not for me, since I'm a middle-aged adult with no mid-life crisis car to call my own) and "comics/graphic novels" sections.
This past month, I waited a decade too late to start reading Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games series, and I liked the first book. It's hard not to try to envision the characters looking like their movie counterparts while reading, so that made it a little more difficult than I expected.
While I take a break for a month or two before continuing Katniss' saga with Catching Fire, I took out the first volumes of Black Butler and Rent-a-Girlfriend, and will probably finish them faster because comics/manga have fewer words. I watched a few episodes of both anime series, which is barely enough of a frame of reference for reading their source material, but when has that ever stopped anyone?
Actually, I know more about Rent-a-Girlfriend than Black Butler after having watched this Mother's Basement "roast" of the first season of the anime. After reading the first chapter of Volume 1 and comparing it to Geoff's experience with the anime, I feel like I should be glad that my library only has the first volume if this is what I'm to expect of our protagonist Kazuya in future issues.
I should really start reading more from my vast e-book collection, including series like Witch Hat Atelier and Ya Boy Kongming!, which both look fun.
I wish I'd thought of taking hour-long breaks sooner since I live and work close to a library. It's only a few minutes' walk to there from my office, so I can sneak away at lunch and come back with something new to read. Most of my reading material of interest comes from the "young adult" (obviously not for me, since I'm a middle-aged adult with no mid-life crisis car to call my own) and "comics/graphic novels" sections.
This past month, I waited a decade too late to start reading Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games series, and I liked the first book. It's hard not to try to envision the characters looking like their movie counterparts while reading, so that made it a little more difficult than I expected.
While I take a break for a month or two before continuing Katniss' saga with Catching Fire, I took out the first volumes of Black Butler and Rent-a-Girlfriend, and will probably finish them faster because comics/manga have fewer words. I watched a few episodes of both anime series, which is barely enough of a frame of reference for reading their source material, but when has that ever stopped anyone?
Actually, I know more about Rent-a-Girlfriend than Black Butler after having watched this Mother's Basement "roast" of the first season of the anime. After reading the first chapter of Volume 1 and comparing it to Geoff's experience with the anime, I feel like I should be glad that my library only has the first volume if this is what I'm to expect of our protagonist Kazuya in future issues.
I should really start reading more from my vast e-book collection, including series like Witch Hat Atelier and Ya Boy Kongming!, which both look fun.
