SUNDAY SELECT
1. Kingdom Hearts: Don't laugh, but when this game first came out in 2002 (the year I graduated high school omg), I was super scared to play it, so I didn't make it very far. This game is an action-RPG, which means battles occur in real time and bad shadow-guys pop up in seemingly innocuous locations to harass you and it freaked me out. Sixteen years later, I started playing Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 + 2.5 Remix and it's scary but fun. You are a little dude named Sora who gets separated from his friends by a shadow wormhole and are transported to a sort of Toon Town where you are supposed to help Donald Duck and Goofy find Mickey Mouse who is now King of a planet that is mostly a castle. I want to know what the person who came up with this idea was thanking, but also I want to shake their hand.
It was actually super hard to figure out which Kingdom Hearts game to get because there are a bunch of them and they have very baffling names and I accidentally bought the wrong one and had to go back to the store :x.
2. Yoga with Adriene: I'm trying to make a commitment to myself to do (even a short amount of) yoga every day and Adriene's videos make it really easy. She's charming and funny and the yoga she teaches is very compassionate and makes you feel connected to your body, mind, and spirit.
3. Graphic novels: This last week I checked out a few graphic novels from the LA Public Library and wanted to share them here.
SuperMutant Magic Academy: This collection of comics by Jillian Tamaki really resonated with me. When you're a teen (or just a person), sometimes you feel like a mutant that just doesn't fit in with the rest of the world. Filled with cute art and bittersweet insights, I'd recommend this book to adults and teens. Check out the link to see an excerpt and buy.
Vampire Loves: This is one of my all-time favorite graphic novels. Ferdinand the vampire has a series of encounters with love and goes on adventures with his cat, Imhotep. We meet a variety of ghouls and monsters, each with their own beefs and foibles, in a series of vignettes and one longer story. Very relatable if you've ever been in love (or a vampire).
Tamara Drewe: I have mixed feelings about this book by Posy Simmonds. It's supposed to be an adaptation of Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy, but it's a very bare adaptation. It's a dense read because of all the hand-lettered passages, but a pretty good story and pretty good art. I found it fairly cringey and suspenseful, but worth a read. I'm going to watch the film next and see how it compares.
