I've been working my way through (and loving) Y the Last Man, just finished number six Girl on Girl, and now I'm anxiously waiting for the next one to turn up for me. I really enjoy the characters, the storylines and the action. The only complaint I have is about the timeline, because reading them all collected together in a graphic novel you don't really get a sense of time passing. Plus, when the comics tell you where and when the action is happening, it has an annoying habit of saying: Arizona. Now!
But this is a minor complaint about an overall fantastic series. Loving every frame, and each book has at least one laugh out loud moment as well as a shock, a revelation and a comment on society.
A Respectable Girl by Fleur Beale is in the Children's Book Awards for best young adult novel, and I really enjoyed it. It's set in New Plymouth in the 1860's just as war is starting between the Maori and the English. Hannah is the main character, daughter of English but raised by a Maori stepmother. The story is about discovering roots, acting properly in society, romance, betrayal...all the good stuff. It's written in first person, and very engagingly. Loved it.
I'm just about to finish reading The Road from Roxbury by Melissa Wiley, the third book in the 'Little House' books about Laura Ingalls Wilder's ancestors. I like reading about cleaning the house. It makes me want to be useful and clean my own house more!
I am also now up to date with Invincible, having read all the collected graphic novels that have so far been published. Loved that too. It's hard to explain why these stories are so appealing, and I guess they wouldn't appeal to people who don't dig the superhero thing at least a bit. There's human emotion, shock revelations and you really feel you get to know the main character. I want more of them, please.
I have a day off from work tomorrow, which will start with a hair cut. Other plans include writing, cleaning and doing whatever I feel like. Shopping on the way home from the haircut may occur.
PoF: grey stars
CO: releasing pressure