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profiterole_reads) wrote2023-03-23 06:33 pm
profiterole_reads) wrote2023-03-23 06:33 pm
Shadow and Bone Season 2 + Intermediate Korean Short Stories
Shadow and Bone Season 2 was awesome! I was surprised to find out that it adapted both SaB Books 2 and 3, in addition to some elements from the Six of Crows duology. Though the actual SoC plot will be next.
There's excellent m/m, as well as a touch of f/f. Also, the Yul-Bataar siblings are both hot, it's good to be bi. ;-)
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I DNFed Intermediate Korean Short Stories at 62% (9 stories out of 12). Some of the stories were weird, I hope you guys don't like happiness...
The grammar was strange too, but since Amazon reviewers said this was clearly not written by natives, I just ignored it.
What I liked was that the book was at B2 level, since the other one (that I reviewed here) was a bit too easy for me. However, the glossary was pretty much useless and I had to copy-paste a lot of words and phrases into Google Translate, until the Kindle app informed me that I had reached the amount of copy-pasting allowed by the publisher... What. The. Hell?! As a loophole, I tried to convert the AZW file into a PDF, but it didn't work. I honestly can't be bothered with this book any more.
There's excellent m/m, as well as a touch of f/f. Also, the Yul-Bataar siblings are both hot, it's good to be bi. ;-)
I DNFed Intermediate Korean Short Stories at 62% (9 stories out of 12). Some of the stories were weird, I hope you guys don't like happiness...
The grammar was strange too, but since Amazon reviewers said this was clearly not written by natives, I just ignored it.
What I liked was that the book was at B2 level, since the other one (that I reviewed here) was a bit too easy for me. However, the glossary was pretty much useless and I had to copy-paste a lot of words and phrases into Google Translate, until the Kindle app informed me that I had reached the amount of copy-pasting allowed by the publisher... What. The. Hell?! As a loophole, I tried to convert the AZW file into a PDF, but it didn't work. I honestly can't be bothered with this book any more.
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until the Kindle app informed me that I had reached the amount of copy-pasting allowed by the publisher...
말도 안 돼! 너무 귀찮죠.
(I've had some luck in the past converting AZW into other ebook formats using Calibre, fwiw.)
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I had no idea this was even a thing...
I didn't want to install anything, so I tried online converters (Zamzar and Cloud Convert).
Now moving on to a few revisions and then the new textbook!
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Sounds like something Jesper would say :D
I'm halfway through the season. They really put a lot of elements from different books in it. Maybe I shouldn't be surprised considering Netflix tends to cancel shows after the third season and they still have some material to go through here.
I don't mind seeing Jesper and Wylan get together already though!
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Six of Crows is supposed to be a spin-off show, from what I understand, so we can get one or two seasons of that, and then SaB S3 to adapt the recent duology (now I kinda want to read it, but I probably won't take the time).
Yes, they totally changed Jesper/Wylan, but I love what they did. And OMG, Jesper was so tentative when he asked Wylan out. <3 <3 <3
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With my weakness for bad boys it broke my heart hearing Aleksandr beg Alina to make sure that his remains are completely destroyed. Not sure how I feel about the prince that was introduced, but I did enjoy seeing Jesper get into what seems to be a solid relationship.
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For a while, I thought Leigh Bardugo was gonna kill the two love interests of the initial love triangle and just pair Alina with the prince, so I was pretty impressed, but the ways of YA literature can't be disturbed like that. lol
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I think, given you've heard they crammed two books into one season, that part of my uncertainty about the prince is how rushed his introduction felt to me.
For a while, I thought Leigh Bardugo was gonna kill the two love interests of the initial love triangle and just pair Alina with the prince...
I don't think I'd have crushed nearly as hard on The Darkling as I did if I liked Mal more. I'm uncertain about the prince, but I still like him better than Mal.
...but the ways of YA literature can't be disturbed like that. lol
I figured from how much of a bad boy the Darkling was set up as he'd never get the girl, but I did hope for a bit more redemption than he got. :(
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No redemption, nope, but he does want to protect Grishas from humans.
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It isn't as if I hate him, it's just two seasons of the show and I haven't developed any particular attachment to him. First season the only not-Crow I really cared for was The Darkling. At least second season they solidified my liking of Genya and at least made me curious about Nikolai. Still, killing Aleksander and scattering the Crows doesn't exactly make me terribly eager for a third season.
No redemption, nope, but he does want to protect Grishas from humans.
I'm sure his resemblance to Magneto/Erik and his being played by Ben Barnes were big draws for me. His lack of redemption frustrates me not only from the standpoint of it being poor handling of his character to me, but because it makes me think less of the talk of Saints in the universe. If Alina is a Saint but she can't/won't provide any forgiveness to Aleksander she's not much of a Saint to me.
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But Saint just means she's powerful and going to live long, doesn't it?
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I've loved Magneto nearly 40 years and I'm still smarting from his having died a heroic death in the comic books recently. There he got a hero's death.
But Saint just means she's powerful and going to live long, doesn't it?
There's more to it, or there's at least an implication there's more too it from one of the names for Aleksander being "The Black Heretic" and from there being the distinction made between "The Little Science" and the use of "merzost," not to mention with the introduction of another Saint second season who shows that the expectation of Saints being saviors isn't restricted to the Sun Summoner. The other Saint saved people with the sword in the past before letting the Crows have the sword. Alina is a poor Saint both from her failing to do better by The Darkling and from her bringing Mal back having been warned about how bad using merzost is. I have to admit my being curious about just how much she's going to pay for that is one of the things that does make me hope they get a third season. I'd like to see more of Nikolai, I'd like to see what price she pays, and I'd like to see more of the Crows.
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I think Six of Crows is supposed to be a spin-off show, not a S3 of SaB, so S3 will probably be based on the recent duology.
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Thanks! I am enjoying that Doctor Stephen Strange is recently back from having been dead for a while.
I think Six of Crows is supposed to be a spin-off show, not a S3 of SaB, so S3 will probably be based on the recent duology.
Hmm, I'd happily watch the Crows in their own show, but I'm not sure how much of SaB that I'd watch without The Darkling and the Crows...
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