Readaton: Aurore

Aurore

My sister says I'm reading way too fast, but I'm reading comics/graphic novels not Russian litterature, so... I... don't think I'm too fast?

Whelp, doesn't matter.

Aurore is a graphic novel by Enrique Fernàndez (sorry for the wrong 'a', I'll maybe change it later). It's about a girl between two words who must help her tribe with a song. It's really really dream-like, both in the story (there a spirits and stuff) and the graphic, with a kind of watercolour-like colouring (maybe it is watercolour, I don't know anything about this kind of thing).

It's really nice and I cried and I was happy, and the main characters, Aurore and Vokko, are very interesting. But it's a little bit... too little? It's just 50 pages and being as dreamy as it is, it's very... un-concrete - sorry, I really don't know how to explain XD

I get that Fernàndez didn't want to describe something real to mantain the oniric atmosphere, but I just feel like I missed something (and I swear it wasn't because I read it fast!).

I liked it, but I wanted more. 

Quotes: "The song you'll sing, no one will hear it, but everyone will be transfixed by the feelings it's going to give. Forever. Now you understand the meaning of all of this, don't you?" "Pride." - Vokka and Aurore.

Ssele P.

P.S. My internet connection is failing me so hard :/

Readathon: Hawkeye + Deadpool

Hawkeye + Deadpool

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[soon-to-be-posted cover]

Veeeery short because it was just an issue of a comic (it's from A + X, if you wondered) and it was a short one, so... yeah... 10 minutes top to read it? 

As I said, I love Hawkeye. I don't love Deadpool, but he's always fun to read and he's always breaking the fourth wall, which is a nice wink at the reader.

Together, they're just so. much. fun. I have the first two issue of their team-up and I'm sooo corious about that!

So... yeah. Short and funny.

Quote: "Wait, do they call you Legolas often?" "Continously." "Good shot, Hunger Games!" "Already heard!" "The Brave! The red one from the Brave!" "Sorry, bro." - Deadpool and Hawkeye.

[I have translated the quote myself from Italian, so... yeah, not really sure, but you get the idea]

Ssele P.

Readathon: Hawkeye - little hits

Hawkeye - Little hits

(Hawkeye #6-11)

First of all, I love clint Barton/Hawkeye. I fell in love with him with the Avengers movie, I didn't know anything about him before that, and he isn't even a main character so it was kind of tricky for me to find comics to read. When I found out there was a new run with him I was so happy!

Hawkeye: little hits is the second collection of the run Hawkeye by the duo Fractal-Aja, who are awesome together (I guess they're awesome alone, too, but I really don't know) and is... quite sad, because Clint always tries to (and succeedes in) ruining his life, soooo... yeah.

Ugh.

Stupid Clint.

The story is awesome, the character are awesone - both Clint and all the others (I love love loooove Kate) - and the graphic is awesome. 

There's a page in which Hollingsworth talks about the colouring, explaining that it's decided first the basic colouring of the whole issue and the it's detailed in the single panels, and it really shows! 

So, in short... I love Hawkeye the character and I love Hawkeye the comic.

Quote: "You have to hunt the past in New York. Not like - like Prague, Budapest. Krakow, Paris, Istanbul. These places wear their past with honor over their hearts. A woman. Not a girl. New York... is youth. Always trying on new masks, new faces, new..." - Kazi.

Ssele P.

Readathon: opening meme

1) What fine part of the world are you reading from today?
Italy! :)

2) Which book in your stack are you most looking forward to?
Hawkeye and Secret Avengers. I'm a little behind soooo I can't wait *w*
// Hawkeye e i Secret Avengers. Sono un po' indietro con la lettura e non vedo l'ora! *w*

3) Which snack are you most looking forward to?Uh... ... ... ... Nothing, really.

4) Tell us a little something about yourself!
Ugh. No é.è Okay, I'm 22, I study languages (it'll be a multi-language readathon, for me XD) and I love Hawkeye, mystery novels and sci-fi.
// Ugh. No é.è Okay, ho 22 anni, studio lingue (sarà un readathon multilingue per me XD) e adoro Hawkeye, i gialli e la fantascienza.

5) If you participated in the last read-a-thon, what’s one thing you’ll do different today? If this is your first read-a-thon, what are you most looking forward to?
I'm excited to finally read all the things I left behind because I didn't have enough time!
//Sono contenta di poter finalmente leggere tutte quelle cose che ho messo da parte per mancanza di tempo!

Ssele P.

Readathon -30 min ca.

Ecco il primo pacchetto di Cose-che-leggerò-per-il-Readathon:

° Hawkeye - little hits

° Secret Avengers #1

° Capitan America #9, #10, #11, #13, #14

° Gegen Die Avengers

° Occhio di Falco #7

° Aurore

° Dylan Dog Mater Morbi

Tutto questo in un misto di italiano, inglese e tedesco.

Sarà divertente.

Ssele P.

 

Ssele ha deciso di partecipare al Deweys' 24 Hour Read-a-thon *w* 

Nomi

Ho sempre avuto difficoltà a trovare i nomi per i miei personaggi, che penso sia una cosa comune tra tutti coloro che scrivono. 

Come chiamo il mio protagonista? La mia protagonista? L'antagonista? La mamma?? Come faccio in modo che nome e cognome suonino bene insieme?

Che poi perché devono suonare bene insieme? Ma chi l'ha deciso? Esistono persone il cui nome e cognome insieme formano un connubio che è ridicolo, oppure brutto, oppure semplicemente meh. Esistono persone il cui nome è semplicemente meh. Capiterà di sicuro anche nel nostro mondo fantasy.

Anche se sarebbe grinzafichissimo un mondo fantasy in cui c'è la legge che nome e cognome devono essere poetici insieme. 

Comunque, il punto è che il nome è una parte importante del personaggio e quindi dobbiamo prendere in considerazione anche un nome pessimo. O un nome vago. O un nome meh.

Un mio personaggio si chiama Victoria Paternoster.

Victoria Paternoster.

Suona bene, benissimo, la vedi già, ricca, elegante, altera. Che è così che è. Victoria Paternoster.

Però tutti gli altri sono nomi meh. Inusuali, magari, per dare un ampio respiro a questo mondo che non è settato in nessun posto preciso (quindi perché tutti i nomi dovrebbero essere anglici o italici o franchi o cose simili?) ma meh. 

Hazel Jekyll.

Andrea Tod.

Sonne Ikin.

Jean Virgo.

Meh, meh, meh. 

Se la maggior parte dei nomi nel mondo reale sono meh, perché non dovrebbero esserlo quelli nel mondo delle nostre storie?

Ryan, Conrad, Malia

Leopoldo, Katarina, Lisabelle

Ruth, Marilù

Bryn

Skene

Il mondo è grande