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Drowning in One Piece feelings and sad I only have 10 more volumes to read until I'm all caught up with all the English releases. Oda finally wrapped up the eons-long Dressrosa arc in Japan but over there they've just released the final volume of that as he moves onto the Zou/more Sanji backstory arc. US has a few more months to catch up on those. And then of course waiting 10 more years before Oda actually finishes the New World journey and series. Oh god. I can't stand it. But it was really exciting to finally pass ch611 where I'd stopped on my read years ago and finish up the Fishman Island arc. It was great and I had feelings. Onto Punk Hazard next!
But at least when I finally catch up with OP, I can then turn my attention to something else: my full reread of Hikaru no Go! (And maybe Slam Dunk after that. I'm ambitious, folks.)
In the meantime, I have The Case Against the Supreme Court queued up for my non-fiction read, by Erwin Chemerinsky, foremast Constitutional Law scholar in the country probably, making the case that our SCOTUS has actually been pretty regressive and not great for protecting constitutional rights. So that sounds super interesting.
And I recently read (reread?) Agatha Christie's masterpiece, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. If I'd read it before, I absolutely didn't remember it. And this, along with her other well-known and highly regarded Poirot novels, And Then There Were None and Murder on the Orient Express, are really genre-defining in their way. She's so good. (At least I remember the twists to those two.)
I'm really fond of Miss Marple and Poirot, but I don't remember having read a lot of her Tommy & Tuppence novels before, so those will be new to me as I work my way through Christie's oeuvre.
And on the topic of novels, here's a cute and strange story about a modest American novelist who discovered he was a critically-acclaimed superstar in Japan. And here's his baffled AMA.
But at least when I finally catch up with OP, I can then turn my attention to something else: my full reread of Hikaru no Go! (And maybe Slam Dunk after that. I'm ambitious, folks.)
In the meantime, I have The Case Against the Supreme Court queued up for my non-fiction read, by Erwin Chemerinsky, foremast Constitutional Law scholar in the country probably, making the case that our SCOTUS has actually been pretty regressive and not great for protecting constitutional rights. So that sounds super interesting.
And I recently read (reread?) Agatha Christie's masterpiece, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. If I'd read it before, I absolutely didn't remember it. And this, along with her other well-known and highly regarded Poirot novels, And Then There Were None and Murder on the Orient Express, are really genre-defining in their way. She's so good. (At least I remember the twists to those two.)
I'm really fond of Miss Marple and Poirot, but I don't remember having read a lot of her Tommy & Tuppence novels before, so those will be new to me as I work my way through Christie's oeuvre.
And on the topic of novels, here's a cute and strange story about a modest American novelist who discovered he was a critically-acclaimed superstar in Japan. And here's his baffled AMA.
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I'm reading Walter Mosley's Little Scarlet right now, kind of... noir? mystery set in the black neighborhoods of LA during the Watts riots. There's some iffy comments on women & stuff (not actually sure I've ever seen noir that didn't have them) but it's really interesting with how it deals with having a black detective in the 60s and the prose is real vivid & smooth. I'm not too deep into the murder mystery yet but I like it already!