Star Wars: Resistance Reborn

WWW Wednesday is a weekly book meme run by Sam over at Taking on a World of Words. Check out her post and others over on her blog!

The Three Ws are:

What are you currently reading?
What did you recently finish reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?

Currently Reading

I’m still plucking away at Star Wars: Resistance Reborn by Rebecca Roanhorse. I’ve only managed about 100 pages or so in the last couple of weeks, which is a rather unfortunate pace. It still hasn’t quite hooked me yet, but I am enjoying it well enough too. With this being a book where characters from different books at the time were supposed to converge, I’ve had some dramatically opposing experiences with recall. With one character, Yendor Brethen, the book built up to revealing him, only for me to have literally zero recollection of who he is despite having appeared in Lost Stars, Aftermath: Life Debt, Aftermath: Empire’s End, and Bloodline, all of which I have read. Conversely, I was pleasantly surprised to see that Ransolm Casterfo from Bloodline has made an appearance, that book being a particular favourite among the new books. I’ve yet to see how involved in the plot he will be, but his appearance is promising. I really want to get this book finished soon, but with an unexpected yet appreciated surge of working coming in I’m not sure I’ll be able to.

Recently Finished

Since I last posted I’ve only finished a couple of volumes of One-Punch Man by ONE and Yusuke Murata, specifically volumes 11 and 12. Despite the number of volumes, this continues to be more of a series refresh, as I’ve yet to pass where the end of season two left off. I’m not complaining, since it’s been a rather long time since I last watched the show, but I am eager to finally see the story progress further. Maybe I’m not remembering the show well enough, but something I’m appreciating from reading it is the amount of bonus chapters at the end of each volume that show more mundane happenings in the characters’ lives, usually with even more of a comedic bent. I enjoy these little lower-stakes stories and how they fill out the world a little more.

Reading Next

I’m still planning to read The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas after I finish Resistance Reborn. It’s only a matter of time. I’m worried I’ll take way too long reading it, though. Other than that, I’m waiting for a reservation I’ve got on the next volume of One-Punch Man to come in so I can continue the series.

Until next time, thank you for reading! Feel free to share your own post down below.

WWW Wednesday is a weekly book meme run by Sam over at Taking on a World of Words. Check out her post and others over on her blog!

The Three Ws are:

What are you currently reading?
What did you recently finish reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?

Currently Reading

At the moment, I’m reading Star Wars: Resistance Reborn by Rebecca Roanhorse, a novel set between the events of The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker. At one point I actually intended to read this book before the latter film, but I didn’t want to buy the hardcover, so I picked up the TPB that came out later and it has languished on my shelf ever since. Admittedly, I’m not especially enthusiastic about this book. In part this is because I’m not especially enthusiastic about reading any prose right now, regrettably, but also because I’m afraid I’ve come to this book a little too late. Apparently, this was meant to be a culmination of a lot of what they had going on in the new canon novels set after Return of the Jedi, with many characters from books such as the Aftermath trilogy making appearances, but it has been so long since I read those books that I’m afraid I won’t be able to recall very many of them, though so far I’m not completely lost. I think some characters were in the Poe Dameron comics, though, which I haven’t read, so that’s a shame. I’m only about 80 pages in right now. I certainly don’t hate it, but I’m not hooked yet either. It’s mostly just dealt with the aftermath of TLJ.

Recently Finished

I’ve read a number of graphic novels in the last two weeks. First was Let Me In Your Window by Adam Ellis, a collection of short horror stories. Overall, it was a fun collection with some rather good creepy stories within, though some were rather weaker than others. It reminded me of things like Tales from the Cryptkeeper, so I’m happy it exists, even if some of them stretched credulity a little too much, and some of them were legitimately quite good. I’d like to read the first collection now. I also read The Encyclopedia of Early Earth by Isabel Greenberg, which is an imagined, mythologized history of people who lived on Earth before our own history began. I enjoyed its folkloric approach to weaving its web of connected tales and the theology it crafted for its world while having elements that resemble stories familiar to us. Lastly, I read Absolute Wonder Woman: The Last Amazon by Kelly Thompson and Hayden Sherman. Though I find the origin-story approach of jumping back and forth between past an present a little tiresome, I really loved this book and the way it introduced this version of Diana Prince. It’s a more hardcore interpretation of the character, having her raised by the witch Circe in the underworld, but she’s full of such heart and innate goodness that it was balanced out really nicely.

Reading Next

First and foremost, I’m going to read Absolute Wonder Woman: As My Mothers Made Me by Kelly Thompson and Hayden Sherman next. I was fortunate enough to be able to borrow the second volume so soon after reading the first, so I’m going to make sure I get through it. After that, I have two more volumes of One-Punch Man on loan that I need to get through. Then, I will be embarking upon a more substantial undertaking: I’m going to start reading The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. Maybe this isn’t the best of ideas as I’m in a bit of a reading slump at the moment, but I’m actually hoping that something a little more challenging will engage me better and help me get out of it. Time will tell, I just need to finish up these graphic novels first so I don’t let them run overdue.