#mostly non fiction and a bunch of micropress zines

[elvenking42]

Favorite book you read this year? :3

Oh that's such a hard choice! I'm not much of READER reader like I used to be, so the few books I DID read were some of my absolute favorites ever! If I had to pick one though, hmmm

I think I'm gonna go with the Ocarina of Time Manga!

This year was the first time I EVER played the game (and yes I know I'm SUPER late to the party) and I was so enamoured with it, I really did have a good time. It's nice to have that cultural context to understand why Zelda fans speak so highly of such an old game. I picked the manga up on pure chance only about a month ago. I've actually never read a manga cover to cover before. I sort of avoided them in middle and highschool when they were accessable, so what little I understood about the medium came from my friends. But I found it to be really fun and engaging especially considering I already like, knew the plot. I talked more at length about the book itself with my buddy who suggested it, but what I found most interesting was how much it differentiated itself from the game. Though it retained most of the major plot points that made the story good, it opted to ignore other elements entirely, even radically changing the personalities and motivations of some charecters. I found it pretty interesting to compare side by side. It's also been incredibly useful as I slowly chip away at my own little fanzine to the game. Also I'm literally just scrambling at this point to find ANY official Ganondorf material. OoT Ganondorf is probably my least favorite of any iteration but I still find him charming

I need to put him in a plastic bag like a goldfish at a carnival and shake it around like a maraca