starting a new comic series

Queen and Country: Declassified, by Greg Rucka et al
I was a bit confused at the comic book store on Saturday (mostly because I hadn't eaten and it was noon-thirty already) and I couldn't figure out which was the real first volume of the Queen and Country series, so I bought both this and a three-in-one manga-sized volume... I'm still a bit confused, but this wasn't the first real volume. However, as it is the first volume of a flashback series, it all worked out in the end. However, I found this kind of flat and not very well characterized, though interestingly plotty - and I suspect if I was well immersed in the main series first, I wouldn't have had the characterization complaint. (However, I've started at the real beginning now, and I like it rather much...)
(5/300)

more fox paths

It's snowing quite heavily; I just walked home from work. On my way home, a fox turned a corner and stepped to within less than a meter of me before noticing I was there (the snow muffles smell and sound, and our local foxes are v. habituated to people anyway). Wasn't my usual fox, who is a rangy male with a perpetual grin, but a more delicate and compact creature - probably a vixen. She stood for a couple minutes, checking me out, before she continued on her route, doing the normal sniff checks, etc - not hurrying at all. She'd come the way I was going, so I ended up backtracking her home.

Bliss.

some things about college girls are more interesting than others, i guess

College Girls, by Lynn Peril
Approximation: 80 percent of this book was quite good, 15 percent was tedious, and 5 percent was absolutely wonderful. Also, I laughed out loud several times but I was also so bored I went and read something else several times. All that to say, it's worth reading.

PS I would've liked it better if it weren't quite so focused on the US.
(6/300)