Wednesday is for media consumption
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sereneReading
On the 1st, I decided to take
wild_irises's lead and start keeping track of what I read. Mom's been sick (more about that later), so you're getting the first half of January all here.Finished:
Roxane Gay, An Untamed State. Gripping, often beautiful, often brutal. Many, many explicit descriptions of rape and torture. A tough read for me, but worth it, and I do keep thinking about it.
Margaret Yardley Potter, At Home on the Range. Elizabeth Gilbert (of Eat, Pray, Love fame) found her great-grandmother's cookbook in a box and published it with her own foreword, which is really my biggest problem with the book. Potter is a delightful cookbook author, and I loved the book. I can overlook casual racism and sexism in books published in the 1940s, so I didn't hold those things against the cookbook, but I have a huge problem with the glowing foreword that never mentions (warns) about these aspects of the book.
Helen Oyeyemi, Boy, Snow, Bird. Egregious transmisogyny, which I can't talk about without spoilers. Also moderately annoying was the anachronistic language, but there's some good writing, and some very good. Still not glad I read it, so I can't recommend it.
Currently reading:
Various writers, Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia Butler
Sarah Hilary, Someone Else's Skin (DI Marnie Rome, #1)
Nnedi Okorafor, Binti: The Night Masquerade
Anna Thomas, Love Soup: 160 All-New Vegetarian Recipes from the Author of The Vegetarian Epicure
Watching
On Amazon:
Watched all of season 10 of Doctor Who, which I liked. Am on episode 2 or 3 of The Americans, which may become a fave.
On Netflix:
My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David Letterman: Barack Obama: "It's a Whole New Ball Game Now". Basically an hour of Dave fanboying over Barry, which was odd but comforting.
Season 3 of Lovesick, which is kinda dumb, but I do still keep watching it.
On disc:
Mostly just silly junk with James. We're re-watching The Munsters right now, and we've been watching a bunch of old sci-fi and creature features.
Listening
Mostly Google Play versions of my old albums.
Playing
Same video games as always -- Two Dots and Dots & Co. Also some cards with mom, but not that often because she's been sick.
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Date: 2018-01-18 11:19 pm (UTC)