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Sun & Moon

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About Sun & Moon

  • Birthday July 28

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    A fine place to hesitate
  • Interests
    Music!
    Playing bass.
    Atalanta B.C.
    Audio books, graphic novels, seashores.
    Hitting the gym, yoga, swimming.
  • Gender
    Female

Music Fandom

  • Number of Rush Concerts Attended
    0
  • Favorite Rush Album
    2112 or Signals
  • Best Rush Experience
    Learning to know the music of Rush, making friends with great Rush fans, and the inspiration for finally starting playing bass. <3
  • Other Favorite Bands
    Gary Moore, Doug Sahm. Blues, rhythm'n'blues, zydeco, cajun, jazz, funk, hip hop, metal, soul, surf, rock'n'roll, country, guitar stuff... I'm a happy surfer of all kinds of super awesome musical waves.
  • Musical Instruments You Play
    bass

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  1. Clementine, Book One by Tillie Walden. Seems like another tough one from one of the top graphic novel artists of today. I'm not the kind that has ever enjoyed or can watch horror films or series. This graphic novel, based loosely on the Walking Dead character Clementine, is beautifully illustrated (as the works by Walden tend to be). The walkers, too, are horribly beautiful. Since one of them attacked me in a nightmare I had after reading the first twenty pages of the book I had to reconsider my choice but then decided to see how Clementine's surviving. The story seems to have just enough layers to carry through the first book, but I'm not sure if I'm going to endure the anxiety that is present in that post-apocalypse setting, and foremost, the slow proceeding of the story. I'm not at all familiar with the Walking Dead world so I have no idea who Clementine is and how she's been portrayed in other WD products.
  2. I'm sorry for the loss of your buddy.
  3. I wish you strength and wisdom through this very hard time.
  4. I'm sorry to hear this. My condolences.
  5. Great news! Congratulations, Nova! Have you already met the newborn?
  6. Happy, happy Birthday, Super25Smasher!
  7. I really enjoy graphic novels, have been loving them since my teens. In the 1990s I read the Corto Maltese adventures by Hugo Pratt, various works by Robert Crumb, Ghost World by Daniel Clowes, and such. I like stories that are touching, funny, bizarre, cranky, melancholic... Here's a couple I've read within the past few years - I don't know about the recommendations, though :) . - Blankets by Craig Thompson. (A beautiful story about growing out of teens.) - Melody : A Story of a Nude Dancer by Sylvie Rancourt. (A witty and sympathetic Canadian autobiographical account from the 1980's with naivistic graphics.) - Megg, Mogg, & Owl by Simon Hanselmann. (What can I say..? Be prepared for.. anything. I've found myself laughing my lungs out on some very suspicious turns of events .) - Today Is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life by Ulli Lust. (Hitch-hiking and lessons learned.) - Shit Is Real by Aisha Franz. (In all it's avant-gardism, this is a perfect description of a broken heart.) - Spinning by Tillie Walden. (How can Walden catch loneliness and abandonment with just a few colours?) - The Twilight Man : Rod Serling and the Birth of Television by Koren Shadmi. (A bit boring, but I wasn't familiar with the Serling story itself.) - In Waves by A. J. Dungo. (Fine graphics, and a big plus for the surfing history subplot, but this sad, sad story was too long.) One of my favourite graphic novels of all times is Kosmista kauhua ("Cosmic Horror") by Aapo Rapi and Peppe Koivunen. It is a story about a vampire and his friend whose relaxed way of life is suddenly interrupted as a bureaucrate knocks on the castle door. What follows is an encountering with modern horrors with both bureaucracy and prejudice by "the normal". This sounds like a really sad story but is written with a warm and empathetic touch and illustrated with bold colours. The album has been translated from Finnish to French.
  8. Puffball by Fay Weldon. The first novel by Weldon I've ever read. So far the story seems clever and fresh.
  9. This may be one of the best Christmas poems I've read recently.
  10. Wishing you all a Merry Christmas!
  11. Love Sense: the Revolutionary New Science of Romantic Relationships by Susan M. Johnson (the Finnish translation). Truly a game changer.
  12. Today is the independence day in Finland. I'm glad to be celebrating it, especially concerning what has been done in Ukraine by our common neighbouring country. I lighted up two candles and placed them by the window like has been done for about a hundred years. I have a kind of a solemn feeling.
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