First, local comic artist Tarantadong Kalbo is in the hospital because of a transient ischemic attack or a mini-stroke in more conventional terms. I've been a huge fan of his work for years now, and he's become a bit of a friend across the various comic book events Tobie has been participating in. I saw the social Stories of him in the hospital after Komiket October on Sunday, and was rather worried. I hope he does well - far too many people appear eager to celebrate his health condition, and he is a voice that needs to be preserved somehow. Plus, at the end of the day, he's a good guy. Keep fighting, TK!
Apart from Don't Dare to Dream/Jealousy Incarnate as our primary K-Drama at the moment, I've also slotted in Cleaning Up, because I thought the premise was rather interesting. But now that we're actually watching it on the side, it still feels overly western versus other dramas, given that it is based on a UK show. And while it's not like they didn't make a sincere effort to give it that distinct Korean flavor to it, it just feels a little off. Maybe it's a bit too serious in tone, or maybe too dark. All the more I don't mind that I'm largely just blitzing through it in order to cover it before it leaves Netflix. I can't wait to get past this wave of October removals - then we go back to our more measured 1-2 K-drama episodes per day practice.
On the reading front, I've wandered back into the Something Like... books (Amazon affiliate link) by Jay Bell. I had more than my share of issues with the core romance between Ben and Tim as featured from different perspectives across the first three books of this series. Maybe I'm too old for stories of kids doing stupid things for love, but those first three books covered some VERY stupid behavior that just felt very hard to stomach. Thus, I took a break from exploring the rest of this series and only swung back now. The fourth book, Something Like Spring (Amazon affiliate link) turned out to be pretty decent despite the inherent melodrama of a protagonist bouncing around the American foster system. The teenage behaviour is not as ridiculous as some of the other books and older iterations of Ben and Tim go as far as re-examining their previous behaviour with the benefit of hindsight. I've already moved on to Something Like Lightning (Amazon affiliate link), so wish me luck.
That's all I've got for today. Catch you dozen or so readers tomorrow.
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