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1) Shojo manga totally work for me, but I can't get in to the shonen ones because I can't figure out what is going on - too hard for me to parse visually. Except for Fullmetal Alchemist, which is secretly a girl comic full of FEEEEEELINGS. I loved Nana and Boys over Flowers and Mars. Brooding and betrayal and best friends all the time! Fabulous. Also, I completely liked The Wallflower.
2) Most of the books I read in any given month, by percentage, never get mentioned here because they are things like Anne Stuart Harlequin American Romances that I bought at Hannafords for 50cents. Because Anne Stuart does brooding like nobody's business, and she even writes dark icy hitmen lovers who don't get particularly nicer after they fall in love, and I adore this about her. Or Eloisa James and Julia Quinn regencies because I love the shared-world-historical-setting of happy frothy regencies. And most of my LJ friends are fantasy people and I assume they would not be interested, so I don't write about them.
3) I will, occasionally, read a smart sad book. But if I know going in that it will be sad, I get it from the library. Because owning sad books and seeing them on my shelves is occasionally too depressing for me to cope with.
4) Usually I will deny reading Lit'r'chur categorically, but this is a lie too. Robertson Davies turns out to be kind of charming. Doris Lessing - fabulous. However, often these sorts of books tend to be somewhat sad, and therefore, see 3) above.
2) Most of the books I read in any given month, by percentage, never get mentioned here because they are things like Anne Stuart Harlequin American Romances that I bought at Hannafords for 50cents. Because Anne Stuart does brooding like nobody's business, and she even writes dark icy hitmen lovers who don't get particularly nicer after they fall in love, and I adore this about her. Or Eloisa James and Julia Quinn regencies because I love the shared-world-historical-setting of happy frothy regencies. And most of my LJ friends are fantasy people and I assume they would not be interested, so I don't write about them.
3) I will, occasionally, read a smart sad book. But if I know going in that it will be sad, I get it from the library. Because owning sad books and seeing them on my shelves is occasionally too depressing for me to cope with.
4) Usually I will deny reading Lit'r'chur categorically, but this is a lie too. Robertson Davies turns out to be kind of charming. Doris Lessing - fabulous. However, often these sorts of books tend to be somewhat sad, and therefore, see 3) above.
