masterofmidgets | Yay Books Are Fun (Reply)

Lived up on my plan to go into town and spend the money my aunt sent me on something fun and (sort of) pointless, namely a couple books to read on the plane home from school (and then reread compulsively several million more times because they will be awesome).

Books/Manga I have Bought This Quarter

Making Money by Terry Pratchett - sequel to Going Postal, which I thought was the better book - this one lacks GP's really snappy pacing, and the plot isn't nearly as riveting or heartfelt. But it's TPerry, and his not-quite-on is 15 times more awesome than most people's best thing they've written in their life, so, you know, still a great book. And I harbor a strange but passionate love for Mavolio Bent, yes I do.
Shout Out Loud! vol 4 by Satosumi Takaguchi - probably my favorite BL manga series at the moment - it has hockey and voice acting and /pretty/ but not too girled-up art and an actual /plot/ - this was the first volume to have any sex at all, and the main romantic plot hasn't even hit the part where both characters admit they're into each other. *loves*
Crimson Spell by Ayano Yamane - pretty much the complete opposite of SOL - the first (decently graphic) sex scene starts around page 30 of the first volume, with frequent porntastic interludes for the rest of the book. It's HOT. And /gorgeous/. And HOT. Prince with cursed sword that turns him into a violent demon+dickish mage who agrees to help him for a fee and immediately starts secretly sexing him up when he turns into a demon at night. Mmmmmmm. Um, I'll be in my bunk.
The Twilight Streets by Gary Russell (Torchwood novel) - okay, this doesn't count since I haven't read it. Amazon fucking fails. I ordered it before spring quarter started and they still haven't shipped it, and in fact pushed their shipping date back /two months/ after they said they would originally ship it. Grrrrr. *is peeved* but anyway, I bought it and I can't wait to read it, because it looks so stupidly, adorably shippy and fanficcy and just completely ludicrous
Monstrous Regiment & Jingo by Terry Pratchett - purchased today. MR I have read a few times and loved absolutely to death - it was the book that got me into TP a few years ago, after I read a rec for it in Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, and I still think it's one of his best books, even if it doesn't have as much Vimes as would be ideal. But it has Polly and Maladict and Jackrum, which makes up for it. *grins* And Jingo I haven't /read/, but I had it on audiobook, so I have /listened/ to it. It emphatically does /not/ suffer from a lack of Vimes. Although I may suffer for the rest of eternity from the mental image of Nobby Nobbs in a dress.

Apropos of nothing, if I wasn't already pretty firmly on the side of not drinking at all until I'm legal and probably not really then, my roommate would be a huge help in making up my mind. Between the faces she makes when she does shots, the kind of creepy factor of her referring to it as self-medicating, and getting to watch her boyfriend pour her into bed and sit next to her to make sure she doesn't choke on her own vomit or something (luckily this has only happened twice all year, but still), she makes drinking look really attractive.