on reading

What I’m Reading Part 2!

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To be a good writer, an author must read!

 

Who said that?

 

I said that! And since this is my blog I am the supreme ruler, and what I say is 100 percent facts 50 percent of the time!

 

So here’s what I’m reading!

 

Let us begin with The ReZero series! Wow! I was introduced to Re:Zero through the visual novel when the PC platform Steam recommended it to me. The funny thing was that the screenshots were so random and meaningless it didn’t look enticing at all.

 

But I love me some visual novels, so I quickly watched the opening moments on YouTube. Consider me impressed! I forked over my less-than-hard earned cash and welcomed Re:Zero to my libaray on my Switch.

 

My friends, I fell in love with the world in the first few seconds of playing. While I think Subaru should be crushing on Priscilla or Anastasia and not Emilia, I am very fond of his goofy resourcefulness. He has a certain practical bravery that endears him to me. He thinks he’s the man while still being aware of his fragility.

 

The light novels take through Suburau’s transition from a normal, unremarkable Japanese boy to a sudden outsider in a mysterious kingdom. The books are very imaginative, with unique twists and turns that kept me hooked. The dialogue is snappy and often hilarious. Even the antagonists are sort of loveable in their own charming way. I don’t say this often (or ever), but the book is just plain cute! Cute enough that I sip cold brew out a Ram mug as I type this.

 

I just finished a book whose name I can’t pronounce written by the exquisitely talented Lisabet Sarai. I love bad bitches, and that’s my fucking problem. And in  Rajasthani Moon Lisabet Sarai provided a bad bitch in Cecily Harrowsmith. Whoooo!  My friends, whoooo hooo!  I consider this book a hidden gem in Lisabet’s library. I may be biased because she’s my good friend, but Lisabet wrote a scorcher that I can barely describe. The situations Cecily found herself in consistently aroused me! If you like the damsel in distress routine as much I did this book will lead you to paradise!

 

There’s also a certain mystery and darkness that hangs over the world Lisabet created. The world has this strong sense of danger that hooked me from the first chapter, and never let me go.

What I’m reading now

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Here’s some shocking news for you: I’m not just a writer, I’m a reader. I may be a bigger reader than I am a writer.

That certainly explains my rapidly draining bank account! I’m spending all my money on books!

Lately, I wanted to revisit the Final Fantasy 13 saga. I wasn’t a fan of the mainline game. I found the story deeply engaging, but the design of just walking to the next battle or cut scene got boring to me. So lately, I’ve been playing Lightning Returns, the third in the trilogy of Final Fantasy 13 games.

Why do I bring up video games in a post about reading? Well, dear reader, Square has released a trio of books based around the Final Fantasy 13 series. As I already loved the world, I jumped at the chance to read them. I won’t spoil anything…but these are exciting and touching books that further realize one of my favorite video game worlds.

I have to beat Final Fantasy 13-2 before I can adequately digest “Stories After.” The book tells how the side characters assisted the main characters through their journey through time. Though, I’ve played 13-2 before, I feel I need to play it again to reacquaint myself with the story. I wish they would release a book about Lighting!

I also read a beautifully written book about vampires by one of my favorite authors, Lisabet Sarai. The book is titled Fin D’Espoir and, brother, it is a pure work of art. The way Lisabet wrote the sex scenes, I can just imagine a master painter stroking a brush across the canvas.

And shout outs to erotica author Larry Archer. I’ve been going through his catalog and have been left turned on with almost every page. The girls in his story get fucked hard every moment and love every second of it. If you like total sluts, his work is for you!

DA GOAT

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I always tell people my favorite book is Animal Farm. When I’m asked to clean or do any manual labor I tell people I’m like the pigs of Animal Farm. I do the brain work. The book was expertly written, so hilarious and so rich in meaning that it easily became my favorite when I read it in ninth grade. It has had a lot of excellent challengers to the title of fav book. But it has held firm as numero uno.

However, it wasn’t the book that got me into writing. I had been writing long before I ever read Animal Farm. I had been writing stories since I learned to write. If you’ve got the gift of literacy, you might as well use it productively. That’s my motto. But, of course, I’ve always liked the idea of the pigs and their repeated mantra of brain work. No one seems to allow me to do my brain work peacefully. They seem to think I’m one of the working animals like them. Hmph!

But what was the first book that showed how much reading meant to me? Like Animal Farm this is an easy question who’s answer is The Goat Parade. What a book! If I’m going to burn in hell let me burn to hold The Goat Parade close to my heart.

You see in The Goat Parade, a huge parade of goats follows Sammy to school. Sounds like a horror movie, right? Sammi is trying to mac on Keisha, put down that pimp game he learned from Alpha Male Strategies on Youtube. And here come goats cockblocking like the bitches they are!

Actually, it’s a children’s book. It is the first book I remember my parents reading to me. Unfortunately for them reading it became something out of a horror movie. I would force my poor parents, cursed with a tormentor for a child to read the book every night. A good friend of mine says she has a terror for a child. She just can’t imagine the curse my parents toiled under once I was born.

Worse yet, I would physically abuse the book in my exuberance. I would beat the ever-loving shit out of that book because I liked it so much. To quote Mike Tyson “I’m gonna fuck you until you love me.” I believe I also used to beat my parents with the book until they would read to me. Karma has visited me as my dog swats me in the nose until I rub her stomach.

I have no idea why I liked the concept of goats following a kid to school. I didn’t even go to school at the time! But I loved the process of reading. I think I loved getting to see a new world even if it was an obviously simple one. I must have enjoyed reading about whole new life and entire new lifeforms. It was fun to sit down and immerse myself in Sammy’s predicament.

That’s what I try to do when I write. I try to get you immersed in someone’s predicament.

© Dacy Alex 2019