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Familiar Diversions

I'm a librarian who loves anime, manga, and reading a wide variety of genres.

Currently reading

How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom, Vol. 1
Dojyomaru, Fuyuyuki, Sean McCann
Progress: 103/374 pages
Darkly Dreaming Dexter
Jeff Lindsay
Progress: 424/470 minutes
Wait Till Helen Comes: A Ghost Story
Mary Downing Hahn
Progress: 184/184 pages
Parental Guidance
Avery Flynn
Progress: 40 %
An Offer From a Gentleman
Julia Quinn
Progress: 102/358 pages
The Twisted Ones
T. Kingfisher
Progress: 385/385 pages
Educated
Tara Westover
Progress: 315/730 minutes
My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!, Vol. 2
Satoru Yamaguchi, Nami Hidaka
Progress: 24/171 pages
Graphic Medicine Manifesto
MK Czerwiec, Kimberly R. Myers, Scott T. Smith, Michael J. Green, Susan Merrill Squier, Ian Williams
Progress: 26/172 pages
Ao Oni: Mutation
Kenji Kuroda, Karin Suzuragi, Alexander Keller-Nelson
Progress: 30/152 pages

Reading progress update: I've listened 271 out of 704 minutes.

Ancillary Sword - Ann Leckie, Adjoa Andoh

Comments:

 

- This is a nice way to draw things out until Ancillary Mercy is finally released. Unfortunately, I realized yesterday that Ancillary Mercy is coming out mere days before I have to do what will either be my first solo conference presentation, or my first presentation with a certain librarian I admire. I could probably read the whole thing before the conference, but it'd be at the expense of planning and preparing for my presentation, so I will have to be strong and resist.

 

- I'd love to know the thought processes behind Andoh's choice of accents for the various characters. I'm not surprised that they're all over the map - the Radchaai aren't nearly as homogenous as they'd sometimes like to pretend they are. I just wish Andoh hadn't chosen what I think is a German accent for Captain Hetnys, though. It's far too cliched. I think I'd be irked by it even if I weren't half-German.

 

- I'm glad I read this before listening to it, so I could interpret characters and scenes for myself. It's interesting how Andoh's reading changes the feeling/tone of certain scenes from how I viewed them when I read them on my own. That said, I'm totally getting the audio version of Ancillary Mercy. I just plan on listening to it after I read the book.

 

- I think the first scene with Basnaaiad might have been even more heart-breaking in audio than it was when I read it. Poor Breq.