Reading Wednesday

[oyceter]

What I've finished reading: As you guys may have noticed, I kind of blazed through twenty volumes of Skip Beat and now want more content and/or more fic. Hi manga! I missed you! Now I'm trying to decide what else I should catch up on! OMG manga is now on my Nook (thank you so much meganbmoore and I feel like all the possibilities are open! I also got and read Ooku 7, though I'm still stuck on posting about the series. Everyone has already said such smart things! I am not sure what to add, and the stuff I can think of is all jumbled in my head and not coming out very coherently.

What I'm reading now: I started the Tokyo Demons light novel, which is... interesting? I'm not really caught up in it yet, but it's my first light novel (I think? Do Twelve Kingdoms books count?), and I am not entirely sure how they work. I am so not used to fictional work that grabs from anime and manga traditions that is in text!

What I'm reading next: Ahaha, I am betting I will reread more bits and pieces of Skip Beat over the next few days. And maybe go on some other giant manga rereading binge! \o/

Comments

[meganbmoore]

SO MUCH YES on the "all the possibilities" front. Right now I'm in the "I can carry around all the stuff that hasn't been and never will be licensed!" phase. I need to get to stuff I'm woefully behind on, BUT ALL THE MANHUA AND MANHWA. (Well, manhua options are still fairly limited, but certainly better than what made it to the shelves here.)

I'm pretty sure 12K counts as light novels. I've generally enjoyed the light novels I've read

[oyceter]

Oh, huh, okay, re: 12k as light novels. I guess it is more a format/publishing type designation as opposed to having genre norms?

Yeesssss, I am tryign to decide what to read next. Maybe I will catch up on Yotsuba!

[lnhammer]

Yeah, 12 Kingdoms are light novels. Pretty much all novels T-Pop published were.

---L.

[oyceter]

Gotcha, thanks!

[hebethen]

Mama Wiki has Moribito down as a light novel too, though if I take the phrase literally, it wasn't light except perhaps in the sense of physical mass.

Well, actually, the English translations are hardcover only AFAIK, so....... :P

Have you read those?

[lnhammer]

"Light novel" pretty much means the same thing as "young-adult novel" (though with more flex on the age range). The lightness refers to the prose, which is generally in a less-than-literary style and uses more furigana than adult novels.

---L.

[oyceter]

Ahhhh okay, that makes more sense. I couldn't quite figure out if it was something specifically aimed toward the anime/manga audience or more YA in general or what.

[oyceter]

Oh huh, hadn't realized Moribito counted too! I read the first one in English translation, but never got around to the second one.