Update: Ooops. I published before I was done. I’ve updated it, making small revisions here and there, and adding the two remaining books I meant to mention. I was going to write about some honorable mentions, but eh, nah. I’m not giving awards, just mentioning books I liked. ORIGINAL POST: Here they are: My Library at LibraryThingI guess I’ll say a few words about which books were the standouts for me last year. You can see that below.
Update: This was scheduled to publish on January 1st, but somehow my blog didn’t publish it—I’m not sure why. That’s why it’s appearing now. (But it was the last thing I read in 2022, technically.) Original Post: As with other posts in this series, these #booksread2022 posts get published with some lag. I’m trying to be more punctual, though, and this one’s very recent. This is the last prose book I finished in 2022, though not the last thing I finished reading in 2022. (Look out for one more post in the next couple of days.) While I’ve read a …
As with other posts in this series, these #booksread2022 posts get published with some lag. I’m trying to be more punctual, though, and this one’s very recent. One last Junji Ito comic for the year. Dissolving Classroom was… okay? It didn’t really impress me, though, as it felt even more episodic—and though there was an effort to bring things back in the end, it felt half-hearted and unconvincing to me. This one was on felt like I just didn’t really get. Maybe too much of the same guy’s work all at once, I don’t know. Or maybe, having started with …
As with other posts in this series, these #booksread2022 posts get published with some lag. I’m trying to be more punctual, though, and this one’s very recent. So, this post digs into two manga collections by Ito Junji: Smashed and Tomie. When I recently posted about Uzumaki the other day, I said I’d probably read Tomie next, but I ended up picking up his anthology of shorter horror comics Smashed the other day, and finishing it within 24 hours. It felt very much like the horror comics I read as a kid: short, spicy, and punchy tales that exploded on …
As with other posts in this series, these #booksread2022 posts get published with some lag. I’m trying to be more punctual, though, and this one’s very recent. I’ve continued making my way through a stack of Junji Ito books from a local library. I’ve even less of a manga reader than a comics reader, but I’m enjoying these.