Stephy Reading Challenge - Book 26

 

Botticelli - Images of Love and Spring by Frank Zӧllner

This whole book was just an in-depth look at five different Botticelli paintings. The paintings are Mars and Venus, La Primavera: A Wedding Picture, Minerva and the Centaur, The Birth of Venus, and The Villa Lemmi Frescoes.

My favorite of these is Mars and Venus.

It was a very interesting read. I like art, but I never looked too closely into the subtle references or meanings in art. I just like pretty things. So it was cool to learn this kind of stuff. 

I also learned what the seven liberal arts are. So now whenever Jaskier mentions them my brain is feeding me a definition. So that is fun while reading Witcher fan-fiction...

Stephy Reading Challenge - Book 25

 

Supergirl at Super Hero High by Lisa Yee

This book opens with Kara (you know, Supergirl) being sent away from Krypton as the planet is destroyed. She arrives on Earth, like, 20 years later. Superman finds her and takes her to live with his parents. After a bit, she goes to Super Hero High.

At Super Hero High, Kara feels like she doesn't belong and struggles to control powers that she's only had for a couple months.

And someone is trying to use the school's Boom Tubes. Which is bad.

Supergirl makes friends and helps save the day, so it all worked out in the end.

I enjoyed this book and think it is a great book for kids. As are the rest of the books in the series. And the original cartoon. Fuck that new series...

My only complaint was that Amanda Waller was too nice. But I guess they didn't want her putting bombs in teenagers. Which she totally would do...

Six Fan-Fiction Recommendations

 1

How to File Form 39-B by thehoyden

Fandom: Naruto

Pairing: Kakashi/Iruka

Iruka meets Kakashi while high on painkillers. Then they fall in loooooooove.

2

101 Uses for a Barrier Seal (series) by HazelBeka

Fandom: Naruto

Pairing: Kakashi/Iruka

Just a bunch of one-shots that have Iruka being a badass seals master. 

3

Mistakes Were Made by Spidergwenstefani

Fandom: Marvel

Pairing: Clint/Bucky

Just a short and amusing story about how Clint met the Winter Soldier.

4.

I <3 NYC by 1electricpirate

Fandom: Marvel

Pairing: Clint/Bucky

Clint finds a bottle of booze and a Bucky on the subway. Shenanigans. 

5.

Fireflies at Midnight by micah_n10

Fandom: Naruto

Pairing: Kakashi/Iruka

Just a cute little story about a tradition Kakashi and Iruka share with their child.

6. 

The Accidental Warlord and His Pack (series) by inexplicifics

Fandom: Witcher

Pairings: Jaskier/Geralt, Jaskier/Geralt/Eskel, Lambert/Original Female Character, other pairings…

This series, man. It is super long. Over 300,000 words when I typed this. For reference, Game of Thrones (the first book of the series, not the entire A Song of Fire and Ice series) is about 298,000 words. And it is worth every minute of reading it. The basic plot is that Geralt is a warlord. And Jaskier got sent to him as a tribute. Things just progress from there. I've read this all the way through at least three times now. And I will read it all again... and again... and again...

Stephy Reading Challenge - Book 24

Deadpool: X Marks the Spot

Well.

Let's see.

Hmm...

Deadpool has a bunch of money, so he buys a boat and decides he's going to be a pirate.

That fails.

He hallucinates a bunch.

Then he decides he's going to join the X-Men. At this point in these comics, the X-Men are living on some island for whatever reason. Reason involves Norman Osborn.

Deadpool made his own X-Men uniform and everything! But Cyclops said no.

In the end, Deadpool does some crazy shit to make the X-Men look good. And everyone's happy. 

Well, Norman Osborn wasn't happy. But fuck that guy.

Fun read. As all Deadpool comics are.