no August book post
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queenluasince last time, i started but did not finish:
* The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedua. it wasn't a bad book, but it was a bit dull/slow in the hundred or so pages i read, and then the library started nagging me to return it and i decided i didn't care about it enough to deal with the overdue fines
* Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Geiman. the bits with the angel and the demon were great, and The Tumblr Dot Com would lead you to believe that's the entirety of the book. unfortunately they are a bunch of other bits and i found them interminably dull and overly cute / impressed-with-itself
all the rest of the time i would've spent reading instead went to playing Final Fantasy XII, Elsinore, and Fire Emblem: Three Houses. (two of those are 60hr whoppers, you do the math)
oh also basically every weekend has been booked so
yeah!
expect more fun book posts soonish; my weekends are calming down soon & i'm in the middle of My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferante, which is very good so far
* The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedua. it wasn't a bad book, but it was a bit dull/slow in the hundred or so pages i read, and then the library started nagging me to return it and i decided i didn't care about it enough to deal with the overdue fines
* Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Geiman. the bits with the angel and the demon were great, and The Tumblr Dot Com would lead you to believe that's the entirety of the book. unfortunately they are a bunch of other bits and i found them interminably dull and overly cute / impressed-with-itself
all the rest of the time i would've spent reading instead went to playing Final Fantasy XII, Elsinore, and Fire Emblem: Three Houses. (two of those are 60hr whoppers, you do the math)
oh also basically every weekend has been booked so
yeah!
expect more fun book posts soonish; my weekends are calming down soon & i'm in the middle of My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferante, which is very good so far
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Date: 2019-08-13 08:28 pm (UTC)yes, they ported FFXII to Switch, and i'd never played it before, and i was lying in bed wanting a new JRPG so i downloaded it (god the Switch is so DANGEROUSLY delightfully portable lol). i liveblogged it a bit; tldr balthier and al-cid are delightful, i really like Ashe but wish she were fleshed out a little more, and in general i really like what was there of the game's story and characters, it just felt a little underdeveloped and i wanted more. (which feels nuts to say for a game that takes like 40-60hrs to beat, but, them's the breaks :P) the combat system was bizarrely delightful, though, and i'd love to see another game revisit it at some point.
Three Houses has been wildly addictive, which honestly is good, since i have six cross-country plane flights this month and thus i can use the distraction :P it's uneven in a lot of areas, but the sum-of-its-parts is a rollicking good time; despite some annoyances i'm enjoying it far more than i expected, and just plain enjoying it period.
(also ahh!! i love your icon <3)
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Date: 2019-08-14 10:40 pm (UTC)ahhh all your commentary is on point. Larsa is in fact best boy (those endless hi-potions!), yessss the gambit system was so fun to use (you've described a lot of what i liked about it), and yesssssss Balthier is just. such a fun character with a lot of hilarious / depressing things going on at once (he's kind of a punk). but yeah, i remember wishing that Ivalice and its characters had more development; there were a lot of fantastic components, but they didn't go very far past surface level and it would have been so interesting to get a fully crafted feeling with that title. but ugh yeah, i'm so glad you liked it!!
and that is too many flights, but i'm glad Three Houses is providing such excellent entertainment in the meanwhile :D
(hehe thank you. i haven't used this icon in so long, for shame on my part!!!)