Time marches on, and carries with it the arrival of Weekend Reading 152! This received’t shock any of our common readers, however we’re planning on spending the weekend holed up inside Stately Beat Manor with a giant stack of studying materials.
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AVERY KAPLAN: This weekend, I’m trying out Who Will Make the Pancakes by Megan Kelso. This assortment of 5 tales consists of “Watergate Sue” and “Cats in Service,” the latter of which is commemorated by the attractive outsized ebook’s endpapers.
DEAN SIMONS: Popped into my longtime fave LCS – London’s Gosh! Comics and noticed Fantagraphics’ Tits & Clits: 1972-1987 assortment (edited by Joyce Farmer, Lyn Chevli, and Mary Fleener) had lastly arrived. I’ve been tremendous excited to lastly peruse extra of the feminist aspect of the underground comix scene exterior of a comics historical past ebook or museum exhibit. Meanwhile on the prose aspect of the road I simply began the second ebook in Elizabeth Moon’s Vatta’s War area opera collection I began on the finish of final 12 months – Moving Target – so anticipating to get additional into that.
TAIMUR DAR: I used to be lately watching Darren Aronofky’s movie Requiem for a Dream but once more on streaming, when it occurred to me that I at all times wished to learn the unique Hubert Selby Jr. ebook on which it was primarily based. Only simply began and I’m already amazed by how shut the movie resembles the unique ebook. I’ll be persevering with to learn the ebook over the weekend. In phrases of comics, I’ve been on a Hellboy repair so I’ll probably be rereading the primary commerce “Seed of Destruction.”
CY BELTRAN: I lastly had the prospect to swing by my native store (First Aid Comics!) and choose up a ton of books I’ve missed over the previous a number of months, and I’ll be beginning with Poison Ivy #7-10, from G. Willow Wilson, Atagun Ilhan, Marcio Takara, Araf Prianto, and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou. For my cash, this is without doubt one of the finest large two collection at the moment working, and I’m ecstatic that it’s been prolonged to an ongoing. Then, ignoring that large stack of comics I simply obtained, I plan to hunker down with The Stand by Stephen King. I’m slowly working my means via his bibliography on the way in which to The Dark Tower, and I figured it was lastly time to attempt to learn this monstrosity of a novel (the uncut version at that!). Expect little progress by subsequent week.
BILLY HENEHAN: I simply completed the wonderful Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy: Chaos Rising by Timothy Zahn. As a lot as I wish to dive into the subsequent novel within the collection, I’m taking a detour to a different novel to permit for some respiration room between books within the collection. Instead of leaping proper into Thrawn: Greater Good, I simply began studying Hench: A Novel by Natalie Zina Walschots. It’s the story of a low-level supervillain henchwoman making an attempt to make ends meet. I’m solely on the primary chapter, having began studying it this morning, and the humor, wit and sharp dialogue already stand out.
REBECCA OLIVER KAPLAN: It’s Team Beat’s ‘Tits & Clits’ weekend. Like Dean, I too am trying out Fantagraphics’ Tits & Clits: 1972-1987 assortment over the weekend. I’m additionally paw-deep in furry analysis for my WonderCon panel and plan on ending Joe Strike‘s Furry Nation: The True Story of America’s Most Misunderstood Subculture, which has taught me quite a bit about my new favourite subculture!
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