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domarzioneStuff of no import, but just as proof of life:
* I have watched pretty much nothing but baseball and hockey the last few months. I'm behind on things I enjoy, like The Good Place (s2) and The Great British Bake Off (I'm not using the unnecessary Americanized title) on Netflix. My hockey team is terrible but watchable, my baseball team is a laughingstock, but....
* I have become a late adopter of Township, which is the best (worst) timesuck ever.
* Recently read, according to NYPL:
... all of which says I definitely have a type. They're all worth a gander, with only one I hesitate to rec being the Stanford White murder one, since it's written in the present tense, which is awful for a tale told in retrospect, and jumps around between principals too much to avoid repetition. The NoKo book is very much recommended because it's insane: unpleasantly self-absorbed filmmaker decides the best way to protest fracking is to make a DPRK-style propaganda movie, so she goes to Pyongyang to learn how. She was a fervent anti-American and anti-capitalist before, but still manages to improve on that after guzzling Juche kool-aid and returns to Sydney complaining how everything was better in Pyongyang. It's fascinating and appalling at the same time. The Richard III book is worth it and I say that as someone who's been a fangirl for thirty years and has read a lot of the literature already; it's a great contextualizer without absolving Richard of anything he probably actually did.
* I have watched pretty much nothing but baseball and hockey the last few months. I'm behind on things I enjoy, like The Good Place (s2) and The Great British Bake Off (I'm not using the unnecessary Americanized title) on Netflix. My hockey team is terrible but watchable, my baseball team is a laughingstock, but....
* I have become a late adopter of Township, which is the best (worst) timesuck ever.
* Recently read, according to NYPL:
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... all of which says I definitely have a type. They're all worth a gander, with only one I hesitate to rec being the Stanford White murder one, since it's written in the present tense, which is awful for a tale told in retrospect, and jumps around between principals too much to avoid repetition. The NoKo book is very much recommended because it's insane: unpleasantly self-absorbed filmmaker decides the best way to protest fracking is to make a DPRK-style propaganda movie, so she goes to Pyongyang to learn how. She was a fervent anti-American and anti-capitalist before, but still manages to improve on that after guzzling Juche kool-aid and returns to Sydney complaining how everything was better in Pyongyang. It's fascinating and appalling at the same time. The Richard III book is worth it and I say that as someone who's been a fangirl for thirty years and has read a lot of the literature already; it's a great contextualizer without absolving Richard of anything he probably actually did.
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Date: 2018-11-11 20:47 (UTC)Present tense is a very odd choice for a book like that, but at least it's memorable.
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Date: 2018-11-11 21:01 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-11-14 01:59 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-11-14 02:12 (UTC)