November Group Read: Second Check-In

[kalloway]

Wait, that means November is halfway over. How did that happen? How is everything going? Are you working through your pile/shelf/chosen media?
(It is perfectly fine if the answer is a long silent scream, of course.)

For added optional discussion, if you'd like- Do you have a preference between hardcover, paperback, ebooks, audiobooks, etc.? Or are books good however they get into your brain?

Comments

[kalloway]

It has not been a week for reading or viewing anything on the list, really. I did get through The Comic Artist and His Assistants, which is the anime adaptation of a (unlicensed) manga by a creator whose previous series I'd really liked. This one was too far over the ecchi/perverted/panty-jokes line for me, however, and while I got to the end, I wasn't entirely paying attention to every second of it.

I have been participating in a shared-viewing project with taichara, which has been informative if not consistently enjoyable. (For content reasons, not companionship!)

As for books, I admittedly like paperbacks best for both ease-of-holding (tiny hands) + space reasons. I can sometimes do audiobooks; my first experience with Stephen King decades ago was a boombox and tapes of his short stories around many campfires over many nights! But if there's anything else going on, it's too easy for me to space out. ^^;; But in the end, whatever gets me the story/information!

[rmc28]

I like paperbacks but am a convert to ebooks, especially the ability to take literally hundreds of books with me in far less than the space / weight of one paperback.

I like audiobooks but I need to be doing something else (walking, cooking, household chores) while listening, or I get bored. I routinely use audiobooks of books I've already read to send myself to sleep. Worst case scenario, if I can't sleep I at least listen to a few more 30-min instalments of a good book. Most typical case: I'm asleep before the initial 15 minute sleep timer runs out.