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heliopausa) wrote2015-02-05 02:08 am
heliopausa) wrote2015-02-05 02:08 am
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Wednesday - mostly not politics
Politics... feels like the only game in town sometimes. But though Australians find our domestic shenanigans enthralling (the NT! the return of Pauline Hanson, maybe! the PUP's non-eligible candidate!) I'll leave them be, and speak more fannishly for now.
Reading for the week:
a. My Life and Times - by Jerome K. Jerome - picked up just because it came my way. Rambling and anecdotal, but offering great glimpses of the England of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including the literary and theatrical worlds. It also surprised me with an impassioned condemnation of horrific cruelties in the American south - it gives a new view of literary England of those times to realise that this stomach-churning stuff was known. And there's a different view of WW1, with his service as an ambulance driver with the French. Not exactly recommended, but a great source for period detail.
b. Falling Free - by Los McMasters Bujold - a very engineery-technical Vorkosigan world story. No Vorkosigans in it, though; it's about a group of genetically modified humans, bred to be a useful zero-gravity (and zero-payment) workforce, and of course about justice and prejudice, and deftly written.
Fannish, but not reading: Have I mentioned that I've been watching Sinbad, thanks tomuccamukk, who is running a watch-through of it ? It's familyish adventure - with intermittent violence by swords and sorcery - episodic, with a long-story arc continuing throughout. It's visually lovely - lots of sea and sunshine and wonderful faces and bodies - and sometimes no sense at all in the plots, and very challengeable sets and costuming, but ah- who needs to be a dull and picky viewer? It's vibrant, lightish television.
And I've been looking at halfamoon, but so far have posted nothing. Would just a fragment do, I wonder?
And now the A key as well as the space bar is giving trouble, making it a real chore to type. : ( I'll go to bed.
Reading for the week:
a. My Life and Times - by Jerome K. Jerome - picked up just because it came my way. Rambling and anecdotal, but offering great glimpses of the England of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including the literary and theatrical worlds. It also surprised me with an impassioned condemnation of horrific cruelties in the American south - it gives a new view of literary England of those times to realise that this stomach-churning stuff was known. And there's a different view of WW1, with his service as an ambulance driver with the French. Not exactly recommended, but a great source for period detail.
b. Falling Free - by Los McMasters Bujold - a very engineery-technical Vorkosigan world story. No Vorkosigans in it, though; it's about a group of genetically modified humans, bred to be a useful zero-gravity (and zero-payment) workforce, and of course about justice and prejudice, and deftly written.
Fannish, but not reading: Have I mentioned that I've been watching Sinbad, thanks to
muccamukk, who is running a watch-through of it ? It's familyish adventure - with intermittent violence by swords and sorcery - episodic, with a long-story arc continuing throughout. It's visually lovely - lots of sea and sunshine and wonderful faces and bodies - and sometimes no sense at all in the plots, and very challengeable sets and costuming, but ah- who needs to be a dull and picky viewer? It's vibrant, lightish television.And I've been looking at halfamoon, but so far have posted nothing. Would just a fragment do, I wonder?
And now the A key as well as the space bar is giving trouble, making it a real chore to type. : ( I'll go to bed.