I Heart Characters! #7: A Three in One Deal

I Heart Characters! is a weekly meme hosted by Dani at Perspective of a Writer to share our love of great characters. Each week, Dani will assign a topic/type of character that we must find examples of in the various media we consume (books, TV shows, movies, comics, podcasts, etc.).

August 2nd topic:

Super’natural’ hottie

(Literally a character who is drop dead gorgeous and from a supernatural race or, less literally, a sexually diverse character who is a hottie…)

Sawyer Silver

I don’t know if Sawyer is supernatural; I’ve always thought of him as mortal. But since this category calls for the supernatural, I decided to go with a story about that that features a hottie, hence SAWYER SILVER! 😀 Isn’t he gorg?!

Sawyer Silver is a character from the Rat Queens comics, a fantasy series about female mercenaries. He’s the boyfriend (I think) of one of tthe characters. Rat Queens is a fun story that I enjoyed reading. So far, I’ve made it through volumes 1 and 2. I’ve always planned to continue with it, but have yet to do so.

August 9th topic:

A brainiac

(A super smart character! Could be clever, sly, book smart, manipulative, if they apply their brain power, it counts.)

How about a whole team of them?

Definitely the team of FBI profilers from the Criminal Minds TV series. I love watching them work on a case and formulate their profile of the criminals.

August 16th topic:

Creature you’d want to adopt

(An animal or creature character you’d want as a companion)

an artist wasp

A wasp that creates artistic masterpieces but paralyzes you while it dramatically dies if you don’t praise its work. Lol!! I love it! The artistic wasp appears in Nnedi Okorafor’s Akata Witch, a YA fantasy novel set in Nigeria about an albino girl who learns she has magical powers.

Let me know which characters you would choose for these topics.

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Book Haul #46: Back to It

Can you believe that I haven’t done a book haul since May??!! I can’t believe it. I used to do a book haul damn near every month, but I’ve slowed down a bit on my book buying and have leaned more toward borrowing books from the library. Also, I simply forgot about book hauls. But I’m back again with one and since it’s been a while, this one will be quite long and I’ve probably already mentioned some of the books on here. Anyway, I do hope you’ll see something that interests you.

Purchases

Digital

Weekend Reads #89: Let’s Catch Up

Weekend Reads is a weekly post in which I discuss a variety of topics and mention the books I plan to read on the weekend.

I haven’t posted anything for this meme in almost 2 months and my blogging has been spotty for the past month, so I thought I’d do a Weekend Reads post to just catch up.

I took an unplanned sorta break for a few weeks. Things got crazy busy for me at work and then my personal life got stressful making it near impossible to rouse myself to blog or do much else other than stay home, read, and watch my favorite shows. Oh, and work. Can’t avoid going to work.

But I’m feeling much better now and am back on the blogging train. Can’t say that all the stressful things have been resolved, but I’m just happy to be feeling back to my old self again and able to hop back on here to post something without feeling a migraine threatening to overpower me.

Comics Roundup #26: Free Comic Book Day Samples

In an attempt to clean up my bookshelves, I decided to spend a day reading and reviewing all the comic book samples I got on this year’s Free Comic Book Day back in May. Here are my thoughts on the samples. Some of them I’ll certainly get when my piggybank is once again full.

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The Metabaron, Book 3: The Meta-Guardianess & the Techno-Baron by Alejandro Jodorowsky and Jerry Frissen, illus. Valentin Secher

Genre: Sci-fi

Pubbed: September 2018

What it’s about:

The bit I read is about an android who visits a planet in a parallel universe to learn more about Epyphite, a substance that is used as fuel and seems to have many other properties. The story is narrated by the consciousness, or rather the robotic memory, of the protagonist’s apprentice (well, the narrator refers to the protagonist (the Metabaron) as “master,” so I assume the narrator is the apprentice).

My thoughts:

This is a fail for me and I knew it would be when I picked it up because a) it’s not a genre I usually go for (I don’t mind sci-fi stories sometimes but I can’t do this hardcore sci-fi with all the robots and bots and parallel universes and things) and b) this is the third volume, so I’ve missed much of the story.

I was confused when I started reading this. On the plus side, I slowly began to understand what’s going on because the narrator spends a lot of time catching up the reader on where the story is now, but because I don’t know what happened before this volume, certain things didn’t have an impact on me, so I lost interest.

Narnia Book Tag

There’s a book tag for just about everything, I’m sure.

I found this over on Reading With Moose and decided to do it because I am a fan of the Chronicles of Narnia series, though I’ve since forgotten much of the story. The tag was created by Clemi’s Bookish World.

Narnia: A magical world you would like to visit

the wizarding world of Harry Potter

Oh yes, it is the world I’d most like to visit, which is no surprise to anyone who has followed me on here for any length of time. I am a huge fan of the Harry Potter books and was lucky enough to visit the Universal Studios Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Orlando, Florida, last month. It was loads of fun and I wasted lots of money there, but I enjoyed myself. I was a bit let down though because the Diagon Alley there wasn’t as quirky and vibrant as I thought it would be, but it was still good.

Handwriting Challenge

I enjoy writing by hand because I admire my own handwriting, so this tag was perfect for me. I was tagged for it last year by Sara Letourneau and though I’ve considered doing it many times since then, it’s only now that I’ve found the time to sit and write out the answers.

The answers aren’t long, but these days I don’t write by hand as much as I used to. It’s much quicker to type something and either send or print it. I write notes by hand and other short trivial things that quickly come to mind, but otherwise everything is typed, especially if it’s something long. My thoughts race when I’m writing — whether a blog post, or story, or letter, — so it’s best that I type so I can keep up with them. My hands also grow tired less quickly when I type than write if what I’m working on something long.

But I still enjoy writing by hand and will sometimes recopy notes I initially typed by hand (which, I guess, is working backwards) so I can admire my handwriting while committing the notes to memory. I remember things better when I write instead of type them, and I see handwriting as a work of art. So yea, I was quite vain while doing this post. I admired myself while writing out my answers and even liked my attempts to cover up the mistakes I made.

What’s on Your Nightstand: July 2018

What’s on Your Nightstand is a monthly meme hosted by 5 Minutes for Books on the last Tuesday of every month that summarizes what you’ve read for the month, what you’re currently reading, and what you plan to read next. For my posts, I also include articles, music, art, TV shows, and whatever else I did in the month.

July: It started out great before descending into a wormhole of stress. I wish I’d gotten some forewarning so I could have prepared for it. The last couple days have been so stressful that I’ve even had to take a break from here. Pounding tension headaches prevented me from spending much time on the computer, so I was unable to blog. I did read a lot, though, but didn’t complete much, mostly because the book I was focused on is quite long.

But earlier in the month was great. The biggest and best thing I did was visit Diagon Alley at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at the Universal Studios theme park in Orlando, Florida. It was great. 😀 It was both all I expected and not enough. It looked almost as it was presented in the movie, but didn’t exactly match what I had in mind as I read the books. Only Knockturn Alley came close to what I had in mind. It was so creepy and cold down there. It was really cool to see a dragon perched atop Gringotts Bank and it freaked the hell outta me when it roared and blew fire. I was not expecting that!