Gord’s Comments (group member since Apr 06, 2017)

Gord’s comments from the Vampires, Weres and Fae! group.

Why do people have to be crappy? We got a DV situation downstairs and everyone is just waiting for cops to show up

My June savings was $657.82 bringing my yearly total to $3,623.82.

Best:

Worst: A toss up between or

Looking forward to: I've heard some pretty great things about this one

Thank you and also Happy Canada Day fellow Canadians

I'm trying to be responsible with my library card but then one of two things happen. I either find a brand new shiny in the on order section of the library. This dooms me to a never ending cycle of books just randomly showing up. Or, or, I'm actually responsible, finish my entire stack of borrowed books, and then order like 20-25 more dooming me for the next couple months as I try to catch up once again.

Not technically in July but it's only another month until it's vacation time. My first one of the year and I am so ready for it.

Oh look, the 51st state crap is back, again. Canada, such a scary place.

I've already got my hold placed on this one. I should have it in about two weeks.

I think I'm struggling with the concept of a "short walk". I went out for a walk this evening to try and get myself back into a routine. I ended up walking for 45 minutes and it was a little under 3 km or a little under 2 miles. It was a nice walk though

Time for another weekly update and this week is heavy on the manga and comics. It's just how things worked out.

Wicked Fox
Before I get into what I did finish this week I figured I'd touch on this one since I said I'd be listening to it this week. I dropped it. Not because of the book so much but because I just was not vibing with the narrator. Just to be clear, I don't think the narrator is bad, in fact I can see their voice working great for other books, but for this one, I just wasn't feeling it. I'm not marking this as DNF as I do want to try giving the book a try but I'll have to read it so it is getting tossed back on to the TBR mountain.

Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear (Light Novel) Vol. 8 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
More of Yuna doing bear things in a fantasy world. Pure fluff and I love it.

Now for the comics/manga

Our Teachers are Dating! Vol. 1 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Our Teachers are Dating! Vol. 2 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Our Teachers Are Dating! Vol. 3 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Our Teachers Are Dating! Vol. 4 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
This is a short series and I read them all at once so I am lumping my review all together. This was a series I started a few years back but never finished. I found it my local library and wanted to give it a read. This is a light and fluffy yuri romance with a healthy dose of spice but done in a tasteful way. It's about two young women who started dating and are now working through their relationship. There is no teasing about whether they will be dating or any of that jazz. The book opens with them already dating. This book also doesn't have a lot of the tropes to add drama to a romance manga. Well, they are there but instead of them turning into this huge drama it's an opportunity for our characters to talk and improve their relationship. This series is just pure sugar and it is pumped directly into your system. As for the spice, I figure I should touch on this. There is hand holding, a lot of kissing and hugging, and each volume has a spicy bedroom scene but it doesn't feel pornographic. It's spicy but it still feels light and fluffy at the same time. I don't know if that description makes sense or not. It's more focused on the relationship and the emotions of the characters in the scene then the sex but because it's a manga, nudity.

Flying Witch, Vol. 2 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
I am slowly working through a reread of this series and I just love the cozy vibes of it. It's a cozy slice of live fantasy manga about a young witch coming of age. We get little scenes from this characters life and it's just fun.

Silver Spoon, Vol. 3 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
More slice of life manga. This one is a little less cozy but still not massively high stakes. This one sees the end of summer coming around. Our MC is still working at the farm of another student and learning about life on a farm. We also see the return to the dorms and the start of the new school year. There is a big focus on the MC learning about this new life and the moral struggles that comes with it.

Acception, Vol. 1 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Another WEBTOON Unscrolled comic that I found at my library. This was from the end of my time where I was reading daily on WEBTOON but I remember liking this comic. There is a whole lot of things that are going on in this one. It's about a teenage boy going to a new school. As you can tell from the cover or MC stands out a little shall we say. It's about him trying to fit in, make friends, the usual high school stuff, and some heavier stuff as well. There is trans discussions, bad parents, cancer, etc. It was definitely fun visiting this comic again and I'll be reading these as they come out.

Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 21 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
After all the volumes I've posted about do I really need to tell you how awesome this series is? This series is just awesome, there, done, moving on.

The Toxic Avenger ⭐⭐⭐
This is a very shaky three star and I feel weird talking about this one. I know of The Toxic Avenger but I've never watched any of the movies. Well, that's not 100% accurate. I was a very young kid, I saw the cartoon cover, and I got my mom to rent one of them. I did not watch the full thing but the scene I saw was burned into my young brain forever. Anyway, back to the book. This is a modern re-imaging of the character but I feel a bit odd. I know nothing of the character as it is so I have no idea if this is good or bad, loyal or completely off base, none of that. What I can say is that this comic felt insanely topical. To the point where it felt rather distracting. Especially because it felt like it was trying to dance this fine line between referencing stuff and mocking stuff. It just felt weird to me. As for the story itself, it was alright. Honestly this entire comic was just kind of meh for me. It's one of those ones that I'll probably forget in about a week or two as I move on to the hundreds of other things I am reading. Maybe you will get more out of it if you are a fan of the franchise but as someone new to this character it really didn't pull me in.

Now, what is next
A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking My current audiobook and I am really enjoying this one so far.
Reincarnated as a Dragon Hatchling (Light Novel) Vol. 2 My next physical novel
Besides those two I have even more manga and comics from the library.

This sounds amazing

I finished up a manga today and I suddenly had the itch to just go for a walk. I was going to wait until I got my new shoes tomorrow as my current shoes are very worn. I only intended to go out for 10-15 minutes, just a short walk around the neighborhood kind of idea. 50 minutes and about 3.5km/2 miles later and I finally got home. That was not intended but it felt good even if I'm a little out of practice doing walks that long.

From what I was looking at online, that was my consensus as well. The bottom number as also seemed to be fine, it's just been the top number that has been high.

The bottom number is usually low 70's

I'm having my usual problem which is nothing I'm reading is set in the States and if it is it's in one of the few states that every other book is in. It's all the manga and fantasy

This is a little premature as technically a full week would be Sunday/Monday but I'm taking my victory lap now. All week my BP has been pretty consistent. Mid 120's for my morning reading and low 130's in the evening. It could be a bit lower of course but I'm still pretty pleased with those numbers. I'm also doing great with my reduced eating thing. I've had some cravings this week but they were manageable. The cravings weren't for anything in particular it was just "I want food" kind of cravings.

One last thing, I'm picking up new shoes this weekend. Getting particular shoes in ski sizes (size 12) is a pain. After that I've got to figure out what I want to do for walks. I'm thinking something shorter, 15-20 minutes, in the evening. Just around the neighborhood kind of idea.

Time to find a new audiobook. I was trying to listen to Wicked Fox and the narrator has a lovely voice but it just doesn't fit the vibes of the book. The voice is slower, deeper, and feels about 1000 times more serious then the actual content they are reading. For the right book her voice would rock

One weird thing I have noticed is that my water consumption has gone up since I started changing things around.

Guys! I just got my second average reading that was in the 120's! It's not the overall average but that average is dropping as well. This is extra sweet because I had a weird spike in my numbers this morning. Sorry, just rather excited about this.

I'm glad the power and AC is back on.