Time marches on, and carries with it the arrival of Weekend Studying 152! This gained’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 testing 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 gorgeous outsized guide’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 facet of the underground comix scene outdoors of a comics historical past guide or museum exhibit. In the meantime on the prose facet of the road I simply began the second guide in Elizabeth Moon’s Vatta’s Struggle house opera sequence I began on the finish of final 12 months – Transferring Goal – 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. guide on which it was based mostly. Solely simply began and I’m already amazed by how shut the movie resembles the unique guide. I’ll be persevering with to learn the guide over the weekend. By way of comics, I’ve been on a Hellboy repair so I’ll possible be rereading the primary commerce “Seed of Destruction.”
CY BELTRAN: I lastly had the prospect to swing by my native store (First Support Comics!) and decide 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 greatest large two sequence at present 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 by means of his bibliography on the best way to The Darkish Tower, and I figured it was lastly time to attempt to learn this monstrosity of a novel (the uncut version at that!). Anticipate 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 need to dive into the subsequent novel within the sequence, I’m taking a detour to a different novel to permit for some respiration room between books within the sequence. As a substitute of leaping proper into Thrawn: Better Good, I simply began studying Hench: A Novel by Natalie Zina Walschots. It’s the story of a low-level supervillain henchwoman attempting 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 Crew Beat’s ‘Tits & Clits’ weekend. Like Dean, I too am testing 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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