6. what books have you read in the last month?
it's been a slow-ish reading month for me! in terms of prose i read Fictions by Borges (i liked bits of it but found other bits of it a difficult read or just not to my taste) and The Shadow of the Torturer (i finished that last night. Hmm i should DM my friend Rumini about that one.)
in terms of comics i read Absolute Wonder Woman vol 2 (didn't care about the story, main artist is shooting for the moon on panel compositions and can't land it, the artist they get to do issues 13-14 and no other issues is REALLY good though, killer panel comps), Absolute Martian Manhunter vol. 1 (again, not all that fussed about story, curious about reading it again bc the politics deserve some more thought, artist went fucking WILD on it, really cool), Skin Deep by Flo Wooley (UK indie pub, very nice little horror short story even if i found the ending a little limp, some great pages), A Cold Place Between The Shores by Mikael Lopez & artists (UK indie pub, short story comp, generally pretty cool but short stories are hit or miss for me), Charity and Sylvia by Tillie Walden (not my favourite Walden but genuinely lovely even if i didn't massively click with it as the themes & topic aren't my thing, really beautifully done, atmospheric, does the watchmen thing of picking a very strict panel layout and then when she deviates from it it really works.)
11. what non-fiction books do you like, if any?
my apologies, i'm really not a non-fiction reader at all! i enjoyed Your Silence Will Not Protect you by Audre Lorde a while back, i found her style very gripping... i should read more non-fiction, i just love fiction too much lol
12. did you enjoy any compulsory school reading?
as a lifelong Science Fiction & Fantasy Guy a lot of it didn't appeal to me at first but there's definitely stuff i liked. i also only studied english up until age 16 (you gotta remember i was primarily a Maths Kid in my teens) so i had less reading than some others. we did Macbeth for GCSE and i enjoyed digging into that text - shakespeare really can be so expressive, and the analysis combined with the older form of english felt like solving a puzzle. speaking of shakespeare, we read Much Ado About Nothing in secondary school and there was also a delightful puzzle quality to that & i remember being caught off guard by how funny it was. i don't remember a lot of my other school readings - or at least, i don't remember feeling particularly attached to them.
i do remember, at GCSE we had to do an anthology of poems alongside the books, and i remember some of those quite strongly - i remember liking the farmer's bride by charlotte mew
