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Monday Medialog!
May. 20th, 2024 01:03 pmIt's a Monday Medialog! Been a good chunk of time since I last did one of these, mostly because I flamed out pretty bad and stopped reading. Also because the weather got just barely better enough that I'm biking to school again and not taking the bus or walking, which were my major reading times. Also because it's the end of the year and I'm just massively burnt out and depressed. Anyways!
Finished Reading Recently
(where recently is "since April 22nd" since it looks like that's the last time I did one of these, which is honestly less bad than I thought it would be).
I finished reading all the currently published murderbot diaries by Martha Wells! Absolutely the best books I've read since starting this "try and read more" project last summer. Fugitive Telemetry is slightly temporally displaced (6th book published, but takes place between 4 and 5) and it is A FUCKING DELIGHT! It is a TRUE CRIME BOOK but set in the future and with a hero who is my extremely beloved SecUnit with all its crankiness and sarcasm. What an excellent palette clenser between books 5 and 7 because...
Hahhahahaha System Collapse is really hard to read for obvious reasons if you've read it. It's not bad --it is, like basically everything else in this series, excellent, but it's...it's hard to read. My poor SecUnit. I want to take it home and pet its hair, by which I mean never ever touch it in any way ever and just chill next to it and watch media.
I think, having read them all, my top three goes Exit Strategy (#5, "the long one"), Fugitive Telemetry (#6, "the one where SecUnit solves a crime") and Artificial Condition (#2 "the one where we meet ART").
Oh hey! Finally Sideways Stories from Wayside School (by Louis Sacher) worked its way to me off the waiting list, and I was able to complete my all-Wayside-all-the-time reread! This is the first of the series, and it's pretty alright! Good goofy children's chapter book.
While I was in VT for the Eclipse, someone said something that made me go "that's a Leftover Soup reference, and so I've been jonsing to reread that comic by my Favoured (Tailsteak!) ever since. I did so in one big Friday where there was not a lot happening in my classes, in between the students doing make-up work or whatever and then for several hours straight after school. It's a little more dated than it used to be, but that's probably a good sign, that both artist and audience are growing up. I still have an extremely ill-advised crush on Jamie, but he feels a lot more of a disaster now that we're not both 22. Max is the best and I will stand by my "dude that's me" feels for her, and yes, I reccognize that's also ill-advised.
As mentioned I got linked It's a Sunny Day by Spider Robinson by someone in LB, and I thought it was a really delightful little read. Robinson is maybe the epitome of my newest simplified poltiical stance "Community is Good", and after reading that one, I dug out a copy of God is an Iron. And while I was good that night and went to bed, I did grab my copy of the omnibus first-three Callahan's books to read over the next couple days.
Callahan's Crosstime Saloon (et al) is important as hell to me, and has been since the beginning. In my little discord server, we've got channels straight up named "shared-pain-is-halved" and "shared-joy-is-doubled" as places to share what needs sharing. While I'll never not be a little wistful about the weird golden-age sexist idealization of women they do, they're a damn sight closer than most at recognizing the universal humanity in all of us. And while I can't get all the puns (just because I've traveled too far in time from the source), I definitely have picked up some of the slang (this is almost definitely where I picked up fin for a fiver, and I should remember to use sawbuck more often for a ten).
And I thought that was all, but then this weekend in the middle of everything being burnt-to-a-cinder-out, I needed something very simple and familiar and beloved. So I grabbed The Adventures of Blue Avenger by Norma Howe to fill the brief. It remains all of those things, although again, I'm now enough older than our 16-year-old protagonist to find myself rolling my eyes some of the time at his shenanigans. Omaha Nebraska Brown is still a _fuckin' kickass_ name for a heroine though (and yeah, I know Blue would wrinkle his nose at my use of explatives, but he can look back at himself and cringe later just like I do.)
Currently Reading
So I've alluded to the fact that I'm working on the Great Inbox Zero Project in which I try to not have five figures worth of unread emails in my inbox? Anyways, that's been happening lately. It's going much better than any previous time I've tried it, and I'm making the numbers drop substantially enough to ACTUALLY FEEL PRETTY GOOD about it all.
This is relevant because one of the things I archived was two years of failing to read Dracula Daily, just in time to...actually read Dracula Daily? I've definitely gotten farther this year than either of the two previous! This book be spooky! Jonathan is in some Deep Shit, let me tell you!
So that's what I'm reading. Simply thousands of old emails, but specifically these ones about Dracula, sent in pace with the dates of the novel.
Reading in the Future:
I am going to return all my unread library books, because I've had most of them since February and the minuteman system is, uh, not thrilled with me. It's not exactly an amnesty so much as a reset --I can figure out what I actually want to read (probably In the Serpent's Wake? Possibly more Percy Jackson or Callahans?) and check just those out.
Bringing an ereader to Pinewoods has some very exciting potential. Maybe I will not bring One Hundred Books with me! Or I will, they'll just fold up extremely flat.
~Sor
MOOP!
Finished Reading Recently
(where recently is "since April 22nd" since it looks like that's the last time I did one of these, which is honestly less bad than I thought it would be).
I finished reading all the currently published murderbot diaries by Martha Wells! Absolutely the best books I've read since starting this "try and read more" project last summer. Fugitive Telemetry is slightly temporally displaced (6th book published, but takes place between 4 and 5) and it is A FUCKING DELIGHT! It is a TRUE CRIME BOOK but set in the future and with a hero who is my extremely beloved SecUnit with all its crankiness and sarcasm. What an excellent palette clenser between books 5 and 7 because...
Hahhahahaha System Collapse is really hard to read for obvious reasons if you've read it. It's not bad --it is, like basically everything else in this series, excellent, but it's...it's hard to read. My poor SecUnit. I want to take it home and pet its hair, by which I mean never ever touch it in any way ever and just chill next to it and watch media.
I think, having read them all, my top three goes Exit Strategy (#5, "the long one"), Fugitive Telemetry (#6, "the one where SecUnit solves a crime") and Artificial Condition (#2 "the one where we meet ART").
Oh hey! Finally Sideways Stories from Wayside School (by Louis Sacher) worked its way to me off the waiting list, and I was able to complete my all-Wayside-all-the-time reread! This is the first of the series, and it's pretty alright! Good goofy children's chapter book.
While I was in VT for the Eclipse, someone said something that made me go "that's a Leftover Soup reference, and so I've been jonsing to reread that comic by my Favoured (Tailsteak!) ever since. I did so in one big Friday where there was not a lot happening in my classes, in between the students doing make-up work or whatever and then for several hours straight after school. It's a little more dated than it used to be, but that's probably a good sign, that both artist and audience are growing up. I still have an extremely ill-advised crush on Jamie, but he feels a lot more of a disaster now that we're not both 22. Max is the best and I will stand by my "dude that's me" feels for her, and yes, I reccognize that's also ill-advised.
As mentioned I got linked It's a Sunny Day by Spider Robinson by someone in LB, and I thought it was a really delightful little read. Robinson is maybe the epitome of my newest simplified poltiical stance "Community is Good", and after reading that one, I dug out a copy of God is an Iron. And while I was good that night and went to bed, I did grab my copy of the omnibus first-three Callahan's books to read over the next couple days.
Callahan's Crosstime Saloon (et al) is important as hell to me, and has been since the beginning. In my little discord server, we've got channels straight up named "shared-pain-is-halved" and "shared-joy-is-doubled" as places to share what needs sharing. While I'll never not be a little wistful about the weird golden-age sexist idealization of women they do, they're a damn sight closer than most at recognizing the universal humanity in all of us. And while I can't get all the puns (just because I've traveled too far in time from the source), I definitely have picked up some of the slang (this is almost definitely where I picked up fin for a fiver, and I should remember to use sawbuck more often for a ten).
And I thought that was all, but then this weekend in the middle of everything being burnt-to-a-cinder-out, I needed something very simple and familiar and beloved. So I grabbed The Adventures of Blue Avenger by Norma Howe to fill the brief. It remains all of those things, although again, I'm now enough older than our 16-year-old protagonist to find myself rolling my eyes some of the time at his shenanigans. Omaha Nebraska Brown is still a _fuckin' kickass_ name for a heroine though (and yeah, I know Blue would wrinkle his nose at my use of explatives, but he can look back at himself and cringe later just like I do.)
Currently Reading
So I've alluded to the fact that I'm working on the Great Inbox Zero Project in which I try to not have five figures worth of unread emails in my inbox? Anyways, that's been happening lately. It's going much better than any previous time I've tried it, and I'm making the numbers drop substantially enough to ACTUALLY FEEL PRETTY GOOD about it all.
This is relevant because one of the things I archived was two years of failing to read Dracula Daily, just in time to...actually read Dracula Daily? I've definitely gotten farther this year than either of the two previous! This book be spooky! Jonathan is in some Deep Shit, let me tell you!
So that's what I'm reading. Simply thousands of old emails, but specifically these ones about Dracula, sent in pace with the dates of the novel.
Reading in the Future:
I am going to return all my unread library books, because I've had most of them since February and the minuteman system is, uh, not thrilled with me. It's not exactly an amnesty so much as a reset --I can figure out what I actually want to read (probably In the Serpent's Wake? Possibly more Percy Jackson or Callahans?) and check just those out.
Bringing an ereader to Pinewoods has some very exciting potential. Maybe I will not bring One Hundred Books with me! Or I will, they'll just fold up extremely flat.
~Sor
MOOP!