Library Checkout {32} Too Many Comics?

I think I checked out too many books.

Since I am over novels and feel I cannot win with them this is the only one I checked out. The only reason I checked it out is because my mom wanted to read it. I’m going to assume that I won’t like but I guess I’ll try to read it.

Graphic Novels

When I was putting The Walking Dead  on hold I was caught between getting the compendium, book with two volumes in it, or just getting volume 3 by itself. I decided on just getting volume 3 because I didn’t want to overkill on the series. So when I was picking up the books from the library I realized that they also had volume 4, so I got that too. Now that I’m writing this I realized  that I could’ve got The Walking Dead Book Two because getting these two books is the same thing.

Reasons why getting this book is a good idea

1. It has Rick Geary in it.
2. Also, it has other comic authors.
3. Crime noir comics

So I can experiment and find other authors I can get into. The only things that could be possible negatives are that it isn’t set in the 17th-19th century like Rick Geary other works and it is noir. I of course got excited it was an anthology with him in it I didn’t read the fine print of it being noir comics. I don’t know if I like noir anything so hopefully this will be awesome.

My Brothers ( of course I am going to read these too)

My brother is back in town  which is one of the reasons I got so many comics.

And when thought I had enough of Harley Quinn my brother thought nope…

Picture Book

I found out about this book from this trailer.

Leftovers

Yep, I got ALOT of graphic novels.

[all the images are from goodreads]

Library Checkout {31} I Missed You So Hard Public Library

My mom surprised me by taking me to the library. Not my school library since I am taking a break for the summer and will not like to see that school for the next few months.

This library visit came at the right time because I just sampled a couple of books yesterday. My mom actually told me to get five books which I did not do.

I’m assuming this book is fantasy more than sci-fi. I don’t want to know what it is about I just know I saw it under diverse fantasy/sci-fi books. I don’t want to know anything I just want to read it and hopefully be amazed.

I was just going to do a samples & previews of Breadcrumbs and Fortune’s Pawn. Okay so I have a theory that I like science fiction more than fantasy. Not to short count sci-fi sometimes can go over my  head, be offensive, or just simply not interest me. I don’t know  I just want to read more sci-fi and test this theory.

I struggled with figuring out where this book was in the library so I left the library thinking it was not meant for me to get this book. Fortunately, it was bothering me that I left this book (This and Fortune’s Pawn are the books I sampled so they are top of the list of books I wanted to get. I didn’t want to lose interest by wait too long to get Breadcrumbs.) so I went back to find it.

It was a good thing I went back and got it because I found this…

I read Oh No! the first book a couple of weeks ago and it was awesome.  Here is a book trailer for the first book.

Comics

My brother really likes Harlequin so I got these for him and myself.

All these villains hopefully all the awesomeness!

I have seen this graphic novel a lot so I decided to just get it.

It’s about cat people. It has a cute cat!

I picked this up for the cover. I realized that this is a book by Lovecraft so it will be my introduction to Lovecraft.

Conclusion

I did not get any romance books even though I complained about my school library not have it. This was a surprise library visit so I did not plan as much as I usually do. I think everything worked out the way they needed to with the books I got.

Library Checkout {30} And There Was Women

Since I bought War And Peace began to get excited about reading classics again. Since I was eh/maybe about reading War and Peace I decided to read some other classics. I do not think at this time I would be into it. All these other events and  circumstances brought me to these two books I checked out from the library.

This is the book I’m currently reading. I like seeing the view-point of American history through a black woman’s point of view. She has an interesting voice.

[The audiobook sample on goodreads sold me on checking out this novel]

I like this cover out of all the covers on goodreads because of the vibrant colors and that hat is so eye-catching.

Yeah, I probably shouldn’t have gotten this one so close to the end of the semester. It’s not like I’m going to come up to  school during the summer to checkout library books. When the semester ends it is going to be like high school when school ends for the year.

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(I’m the one with the rolling backpack. I have one in real life. )

Anyway, what caught my eye with this book is that there are two sisters  and a revenge plot. I’m so here for that. It seems like so much adventure is going to happen in this book.

On an ending note I am going to think up some more book cover ideas for these two books (unless I don’t finish/end up not liking them) even though I think I’m supposed to only do that for books I own. Eh. I’ve already thought up a couple of cover ideas.

A week or so later…

I can never have nice things. I did not finish No Name and am eh about Behind The Scenes. Yep, I totally forgot about all those cover ideas too.

No Name

Starting on a positive note this story had great potential. Potential, seemed to be  the word that I kept holding on to even 100 pages in. The problem is that the story felt like it was on the point of engaging me. Everything was there and was close to getting it. When did I start being able to tell it was not going to go the distance? Well, when the story would not focus on Nora for life of it. Nora and the rest of the characters in the story wouldn’t get connected to my interest somehow. Thoughts of how long it felt and me finding myself asleep while reading this book on two different occasions come to mind too. I kept going where I would not go for so many other novels because it is not boring but was it really engaging though?  DNF

Behind The Scenes

I got excited about this particular narrative  because it felt like a start in me getting past my assumptions about slave narratives. Also, the main character is a black woman which excited me to no end. That is why what I have read so far is a bit disappointing. I can see why this novel is called Behind The Scenes because it is like Elizabeth Keckley is not a main character in her own life story. It is basically a third person narrative of the Lincolns with a few chapter at the beginning about Elizabeth Keckleys life. Being at 171 of 371 pages the only thing I know about her is from the first couple of chapters. I don’t know about her friends or life beyond the white house during this period. I came for her story. Yes, I did come for a little bit about the Lincolns but I mainly came for her. I picked up this novels and pumped it up in my head for her.  There are many things that bother me about this novel. The story jumping around is one of  the things that bothered me but I can’t get really annoyed about it because this is an autobiography. One of the other things is how she worships Abraham Lincoln  such as calling him a “demigod”. I can also sense some respectability politics with Elizabeth Keckley too. It is weird doing a review of someone else’s life because I’m basically reviewing her. I still think it is a good book so I am going to finish it eventually.

What I Gained For This Library Haul…

I. Not wanting a book to be good so bad that I can’t recognize that my interest is missing

The biggest problem I face is the lack of interest I have for so many books. This disinterest causes me to question myself because I want to be into some books so bad. No Name had all the potential in the world. I wanted a Charles Dickens level characterization (male of course because the only female main character characterization from Bleak House was off) for the female characters but I did not get that. *sigh*

II. Read more slave narratives/ classic books in African-Americans point of view (I might read Mary Todd Lincoln or Abraham Lincoln or just someone else who was around the Lincolns during this time)

I think it would be interesting to read different point of views of historical events especially from people who were  marginalized during that period.