Roundup: My Reading and Viewing

Roundup: Personal Reflections (not Reviews) on Reading and Viewing I've Managed to Do:
* Memory and Dream (Charles de Lint)
* V for Vendetta (graphic novel)
* Blade of the Immortal, vol. 23
* Rango (movie)

Memory and Dream is an interesting test case for my responses as a reader. It's a thoroughly good book. It has well-developed characters; a tight, page-turning plot, good handling of the English language. I read it all, which is more than I can say for most books these days. I enjoyed it; there were moments I was truly engaged. But it never gave me a cathartic hit. It just didn't move me as a narrative.

( Memory and Dream (Spoilers) )

( V for Vendetta (Spoilers) )

( Blade of the Immortal, 23 (Light Spoilers) )

( Rango )

Banana Fish/Death Note Crossover--2003-2004

Title: "Love Letters"
Fandoms: Banana Fish, Death Note, Death Note--Bodyverse
Characters: Ash, Eiji, Sing, mentions of other BF/DN characters and OCs
Spoilers: All of BF, light spoilers for DN and DN-Bodyverse
Warnings/Rating: References to physical and sexual violence, swearing, PG-13 this section.
Summary: Ash goes prison, but he and Eiji write letters... for decades... and decades...
A/N: I'd be happy to attribute the computer haiku if anyone knows who originated it.

Teaser: Ash: "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose." I can feel you and me getting freer by the moment.


Letters 1987-1990 and Author's Notes
Letters 1994-1998

( Letters 2003-2004 )