November Group Read Check-In 1

[kalloway]

Well we're a little over a week into November. How goes the reading?

Comments

[shadowkat]

Poorly. I'm still wading through Naomi Novik's Spinning Silver. (I've made it through emotional speculative sci-fi superhero comic books on the kindle - but not sure that counts? It's just pictures and dialogue, like reading a action packed play with art!) Also, re-listening to graphic audio audiobooks which is well listening not reading.

I think work is an issue? I read and edit a lot of technical and legal material for work, and read for pleasure in snatches on the train ride. Did get reading done in doctor's offices - and going to and from them.

[kalloway]

Comics absolutely count! As do audiobooks. Visual novels count, too. ^_^

[shadowkat]

Thanks. What's a visual novel? Is this a graphic novel?

[kalloway]

Visual novels are a form of video game that are text-heavy and basically akin to a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure. You read the story and at important junctures you make a choice on how to proceed.

Basically for the November event, if I'm the one running it, I want to go with maximum inclusiveness. Especially with how busy and complicated the world is right now. ^^;;

[shadowkat]

Ah thanks. I've not run across that since...the 1980s. A far more rudimentary form, of course. Not to mention more frustrating - since it was MS DOS. Think the old Apple II computers, circa 1981.

[kalloway]

Yes, I remember those sorts. ^_^ The genre is still thriving across platforms.