{"id":6793,"date":"2011-07-15T06:30:33","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T18:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=6793"},"modified":"2011-07-14T21:54:16","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T09:54:16","slug":"its-friday-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/07\/15\/its-friday-6\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s Friday!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>It’s Friday—and what I’ve been doing this week is not very much at all. This is not because I am on holiday after completing The Gathering of the Lost<\/strong><\/em>, but because—as is so often the way after one has been really busy for a long time—as soon as I stopped I promptly succumbed to the nearest wandering ailment and so have been comfined to my authorial couch all this week, muffled in wraps and comforters, and imbibing various herbal and lemon-infused beverages, as well as knocking back aspirin at the minimum prescribed intervals.<\/p>\n

The cat, needless to say, thinks it’s just great—he gets to hang out in the room where the heater stays on all<\/em> day. And when you’re a cat in your 19th year, I suspect this counts as fairly close to bliss!:)<\/p>\n

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Miss Agatha Heterodyne, Girl Genius<\/p><\/div>\n

I haven’t quite summoned the energy yet for those Hugo Awards reading reports—although I promise you that they are coming!—but rather I’ve been sneakily doing some fun reading of something I really enjoy: graphic novels. In this case, catching up with the latest instalments of Girl Genius Online<\/strong><\/a>, which I’d gotten a bit behind on while finishing Gathering, <\/strong><\/em>and starting the latest in the Angel<\/strong> series: Illyria, Haunted<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

For those of you who don’t know, the Buffy<\/strong> and Angel<\/strong> graphic novel series have continued on from where the tv series left off. In the case of the Buffy series (officially ‘Season Eight’) I haven’t been able to really get into it—although I do keep trying because it’s, you know, Buffy!<\/strong><\/em>—but I have really enjoyed most of the Angel<\/strong> instalments. I just think the stories are more coherent and more fun, and what they’re doing with the characters a whole heap more interesting—which is pretty much exactly the opposite of what I felt about the tv series.<\/p>\n

And Illyria is one of my favourite characters so I’m really enjoying my first Illyria-centred adventure. And yes, I was one of those fans who really hoped there’d be a Spike\/Illyria spin-off tv series … (Sigh.) But in fact this graphic novel series is pretty durned good anyway, so there is still Whedon-verse happiness to be had. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

So how about you? What would you read, if you were confined to your couch for a week? And if it was a graphic novel, which one would you go for?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s Friday—and what I’ve been doing this week is not very much at all. This is not because I am on holiday after completing The Gathering of the Lost, but because—as is so often the way after one has been really busy for a long time—as soon as I stopped I promptly succumbed to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-what-im-doing","category-what-im-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6793"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6804,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6793\/revisions\/6804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}