Swimming, meme and Wild Adapter

[louiselux]

I did swimming! Go me!  I haven't been since mid-October, but I managed half an hour: 10 breast stroke (fast), 10 back stroke (quite fast) , 8 front crawl (slow).

I liked brandnewgun's meme about public places you're known in:

Our corner shop - the Butts Convenience Store (yes, I know that the Americans on my flist will be sniggering right now. In Reading we have a part of town called St Mary's Butts, home to a shopping centre once named The Butts Centre).

The buffet on the Virgin Trains 7:05 to Edinburgh. Some of the stewards (but not the penis steward) recognise me-- not surprising as I've been making the journey every weekday for 18 months.

Blackwells, because I'm always in there and I trashed their Christmas tree.

The Upper Crust Sandwich bar at Reading station, where I get peppermint tea in the morning.

The Retro Centre, a shop in Reading where I've found another person who's into collecting melamine and has a whole lovely shop full of it and other funky items (tboy, you would love this place)

In other news, I spent this morning reading Wild Adapter - a manga by the same woman who's writing Saiyuki - and squeeing at some of the similarities in story lines and personalities, almost as if she's writing a Saiyuki reincarnation story. From what I can gather of Minekura's general style in plotting, how she builds up her stories and keeps her readers guessing, I'd be very surprised if this similarity wasn't intentional. It's obvious she loves to throw her readers clues and hints, and perhaps red herrings?  All right, some clues are more obvious than others, like Kubota looking almost identical to, erm, Hakkai. 

Well, I must go and buy some jumpers.

Comments

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

...where did you find to go swimming in Reading? Hope it wasn't at the Central, was it?

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

It was-- Cockroach Central, as we christened it over the summer. I do worry sometimes that going there does me more harm than good - I always feel a bit odd the day after, as if I'm fighting off unwanted bacteria. The thing is it's handy, being 5 minutes away.

[mistressrenet.livejournal.com]

permetaform thinks the same thing about Wild Adapter; she's got an entry about it somewhere. I haven't gotten far enough in it to say, myself.

[permetaform]

It's obvious she loves to throw her readers clues and hints, and perhaps red herrings?

...And Tokitoh's EYES! =D

oh, and that post mistressrenet was talking about was here...I was spazzing alot...(it's in my memories under 'my squee')

[cutselvage.livejournal.com]

:D I have a gloriously gorgeous glossy (apologies for the alliteration) Wild Adapter artbook. Bought it at convention, not knowing what the series was because omg teh PRETTEH. Heh.

I did pick that it was the same artist as Saiyuki though.

And now that I'm on holidays, I may do some scannage. Look out for pretty anime boys on your flist in the coming weeks. :)

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

oooh, yes!! I can't wait:)

[tboy.livejournal.com]

I would indeed love that place, although I suspect my family would run screaming. I don't know why they feel that way, I'm certainly having fun. *eg*

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

You would *die* with pleasure at this shop - it has retro everything - glass, furniture, lighting, rugs, you name it. And it's all good quality. It's not even that expensive really... yes, I have to drag myself away sometimes. *g*