The new professional and recreational readings I finally started today. Hope to finish them both (plus some additional graphic novels) before the next term begins in two weeks. #ReadAncient

#WonderWoman's "The Just War" TPB Vol. 1 asks pretty important questions throughout, as the title already suggests. And there are also stories of immigration, exile, jealousy & revenge to ponder about. Hard not to see the real life influences to these stories. Strong commentary.

What I learned from the preface/introduction so far: (1) never read the 1st book in a series *after* the 2nd, (2) "SF" contains so much more than just "science fiction", (3) most of the time it's way more complicated than you'd think, (4) "scopophilia", (5) still so much to read!

While I have to admit that reading the first paper by Swinford on Kepler's Somnium has been quite strenous, the second one by Weiner on Shelley's Frankenstein is a real page-turner. Still wondering myself, what makes these texts so different. Is it the vocabulary? The style?