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Reading Wednesday
• What are you currently reading?
I just started Cold Fire but I’m feeling pretty fickle lately.
Will someone please tell me if this book contains suicide or attempted suicide? Lately every fucking thing I pick up has it, & I need some time away from such content.
• What did you recently finish reading?
The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino (translated to English by Alexander O. Smith) - I put this on hold on the library because a reviewer at a manga blog I read (probably Manga Bookshelf) reviewed the more recent novel.
I sometimes have a hard time with the way Japanese fiction translates into English (phrases can translate in overly descriptive ways that make me hate it in English?!), but that fell away for me within a few pages for this book.
It’s a mystery, but also not, & hard to discuss without giving things away.
Trigger warnings for domestic violence, murder, & attempted suicide.
Kaze Hikaru, volume 2 - I liked this volume quite a bit more than the first one. . Sei is finally presented with an opportunity to get revenge. Instead of taking it, she demands the murderer of her father/brother atone for what he did. But he refuses & commits seppuku instead.
I found her conflict with Souji about about capability for murder super interesting. The commitment to honor/etc. was huge in this book too, & I appreciated the flashback to what it was like for Sei when her mom was dying, & the values both her parents instilled in her.
I’m actually starting to care about her & some of the other members of the Shinsengumi.
I just started Cold Fire but I’m feeling pretty fickle lately.
Will someone please tell me if this book contains suicide or attempted suicide? Lately every fucking thing I pick up has it, & I need some time away from such content.
• What did you recently finish reading?
The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino (translated to English by Alexander O. Smith) - I put this on hold on the library because a reviewer at a manga blog I read (probably Manga Bookshelf) reviewed the more recent novel.
I sometimes have a hard time with the way Japanese fiction translates into English (phrases can translate in overly descriptive ways that make me hate it in English?!), but that fell away for me within a few pages for this book.
It’s a mystery, but also not, & hard to discuss without giving things away.
Trigger warnings for domestic violence, murder, & attempted suicide.
Kaze Hikaru, volume 2 - I liked this volume quite a bit more than the first one. . Sei is finally presented with an opportunity to get revenge. Instead of taking it, she demands the murderer of her father/brother atone for what he did. But he refuses & commits seppuku instead.
I found her conflict with Souji about about capability for murder super interesting. The commitment to honor/etc. was huge in this book too, & I appreciated the flashback to what it was like for Sei when her mom was dying, & the values both her parents instilled in her.
I’m actually starting to care about her & some of the other members of the Shinsengumi.
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I don't think there are any suicides or suicidal ideations in Coldfire, although some of the characters do things I'd call self-destructive or reckless.Oops, misread Cold Fire as the Coldfire trilogy. Please disregard /o\
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