3 hour long bus ride meant I read a good chunk of The Eight Doctors! I sucked it up and did it on my laptop, in case any real captainjackheads wonder.
Self indulgent is how I’d describe it. I’ve only seen Day of the Doctor as far as multi-doctor stories go - Are they all self indulgent…?
I strongly dislike how often fully grown women were described as “girls” or being “small and beautiful” and that’s it. Eight is also described as a ‘handsome young man’, but let’s be honest, it’s a bit sexist that every woman is described this way. I found the character descriptions to be incredibly lazy. I would like a bit more to work with than the most basic rundown of features or just slapping on the label “beautiful”.
I feel a bit dissatisfied with how Sam Jones’ plot was tossed in at the beginning and then we have no cuts to it… yet we have cuts to Gallifrey. Why? I understand the Doctor meeting themself is a time paradox. He seems to be working fine with it. It’s happened before. The Gallifrey bits are pointless thus far, show me Sam.
Low 2/5 so far. I’m really only reading it for the context needed for Vampire Science.
Ah, then it’s only the first nd the last chapters you really need to read. I remember someone on Doctor Who eBook Preservation Society’s Discord server said they want to do a version of Vampire Science with the first and the last chapters of The Eight Doctors added for context so you wouldn’t have to go through that one. 
Oy vey, you’re telling me I could’ve just done this? I’ll probably skip ahead. It’s a really droll read. They couldn’t even make the bit with vampires interesting to me!
I started reading Love and War yesterday 
Getting through the Target Storybook really quickly, and really enjoying it.
At least, I was.
I had just finished the Clive Finch story (yes, Clive Finch story!), and then I moved onto Jenny T Colgan’s story. It seems to be the longest. And the worst.
It’s really tough struggling through a story I’m not enjoying at all. It focuses on Rose and the Meta-Crisis Doctor, who is now called… Corin. Hmmm…
You know what would cheer me up?
A badge for completing the collection!
Come on, @shauny, help me out!
It’s on my to-do list!
Oh I’ve heard about that, yeah… it’s very funny to me how there’s a lot of different things about TenTwo in expanded media and the Corin stuff doesnt’ work with literally any of it
Ah, the intricacies of what is and isn’t ‘Doctor Who’ canon… I hate it./j
Intricacies? No, no, dw’s got no canon and canon is what I decide is canon for me 
/hj
I almost commented this exact thing. Who cares what is and isn’t canon, there’s more to the story than that!!!
I’m working my way through Transit, but I’m struggling with it, and I don’t honestly know whether I can finish it.
Also starting on the next comic volume with my boy Eleven, The Then and the Now for Comics Club.
Three chapters into “The Secrets of Vault 13”.
I already love this book, David Solomons just gets the personalities of the Fam so right.
This is just so Graham (packing jumpers for some R & R): “It was a short break, and he knew he should only pack one, but, much as he might have liked to be, he just wasn’t one of those carefree one-jumper people. What if there was an accident? What if there was spaghetti bolognaise? He packed both. Just as he was picking up a third jumper, the voice squeaked again.” 
The humour is right up my alley (that’s a metaphorical alley that is - like I could afford a whole alley on my own…), and there are so many little references to previous adventures classic and 2005 already 40 pages in.
Just got a weird look from a teen trying to look cool on the train because I tried not to laugh out loud and made a sort of snorting sound instead
I thought you would enjoy it.
After finishing the disaster that was Turning of the Tide, I read the wonderful Citation Needed, and am now on Pain Management!
This is turning out to be a really good collection!
It’s fun to make everything fit together but the very nature of the show’s longevity and changes in production team, not to mention it’s cross-media universe means it can only be a fun task.
One thing that so many fans forget, though, is that ‘canon’ and ‘continuity’ are not the same thing.
Doctor Who doesn’t have a ‘canon’ - never has, but it does have continuity. That continuity is a muddle though.
Finished Storybook 2007. Not a single story in it that I thought was really good, but there’s nice variety and the artwork enhances…it’s a case where I felt the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
Favorite story is maybe Untitled, I enjoyed the visuals it put in my head, all those colors… Least favorite is maybe No One Died. Felt like the author didn’t really think it through, and in the end the Doctor and Rose have made no effort to correct the situation and just leave.
In a way, this has been just what I needed this past week. Really stressing over my job, not sleeping much, very little time to myself, and having these bite size stories to take me away for a few minutes has been just the ticket.
Anyone who has read the Sixth Doctor Target Novelizations, which had the most new content added to it?
I’ve heard Twin Dilemma might have quite a bit of extra content.
Curse of Fenric has lots of extra stuff.
Not a Sixth Doctor one though… 