I am around! I know I haven't posted anything but my Yuletide letter in the recent months. I'm sorry about that, I haven't forgotten this place and I hope nobody's been worried, given the year we're having. I've been fine, and so have the people close to me. Just cooped up and isolated, as I'm sure we all know. This disappearance of mine wasn't ( Read more... )

Okay, folks, time for one of these again! Basically just books and podcasts, I haven't engaged with any other culture recently, other than the occasional music.

Books

Since the last, I finished the utterly delightful Dragon Pearl by Yoon Ha Lee, which I was reading at the time. I absolutely loved it, and the ending surprised me and was very different ( Read more... )

Oh, hello, hello. I am still around, and healthy and well and all, I'm just kind of bad at getting around to doing things, so this journal has suffered as a result. I've thought about posting on many days, but turns out just thinking about it doesn't make it happen!

But here, let's have that my recent culture round-up (maybe I need to call it that ( Read more... )

A note: sorry I'm taking quite a while replying to all the character meme prompts - I will get to them! Just turns out I'm a bit slow at doing it, and lately I've had a lot of RL things going on. Not in a bad way, just in the "have a lot to do" kind of way.

But let's try to do the culture consumed thingie now! On a Wednesday, too, so it sort of ( Read more... )

Okay, I've been meaning to manage these "culture consumed" posts for a while. Seriously, I'm probably just going to have to go back to trying to do a Reading Wednesday and then pick other days for doing other forms of culture because I apparently find it too much work to list them all at once. And then I delay for weeks and then it especially is ( Read more... )

I can't seem to get myself to stick to any particular schedule with these posts. Oh well! On to recent culture. I updated my reading last week, but it's been a few weeks since I wrote about other forms of culture, so I'll probably forget something. And because this was getting too long, I'm mostly leaving podcasts to another post, but this time I' ( Read more... )

I hope you all are okay and so are all that you know. To keep myself distracted from the news, and to possibly get some interaction in this time of isolation, here is a Reading Wednesday update! I meant to do the whole culture consumed thing, but since I've let this pile up, I've got way too much to put in one post, so I'll just post about podcasts ( Read more... )

I feel like doing another "culture recently consumed" which is like an expanded version of Reading Wednesday, and is again not happening on Wednesday. Doesn't really matter. Here's what I've been reading, listening to, and watching lately.

Books

I finished Tasha Suri's Realm of Ash and loved it as much as I loved her first novel, Empire of Sand, ( Read more... )

I thought I'd try a thing where, in place of the standard Reading Wednesday that goes around, I'd have a general What Culture I Have Been Consuming Lately feature. That'd also get me to handily talk about the podcasts and TV episodes and things like that which I've been into, without needing to have the energy to do a Proper Post about them ( Read more... )

Season 12 of Doctor Who will only start airing in Finland on January 9th; we'll get both parts 1 and 2 of Spyfall on that day. I assume after that we'll get the episodes very soon after the UK premiere as we did last year, but I'm not going to see Spyfall part 1 before the 9th. If you think that before that date, you might not manage to avoid ( Read more... )