wednesday reads n' things
What I've recently finished reading:
"The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections" by Tina Connolly, which
merit mentioned in a comment to last week's reads post. As in Diane Zahler's Baker's Magic, food can be imbued with emotions and feelings, and in this case, the pastries trigger memories. I liked the way the story was presented in flashback, through each memory the food called forth, but overall it was a fairly pat and uninteresting story (to me), and the pastry chef being named "Danny" just didn't work for me for a fantasy story (I know, it's the Tiffany Problem).
What I'm reading now:
I have read the first four "books" (chapters) of the Iliad! After a rough start, things started picking up, and I really enjoyed the fourth book, in which shit begins to get real. So far my favorite character is Nestor, because he is old and sensible and not a jerk like Agamemnon.
I have also started listening to the audiobook version of The Devil's Highway: A True Story by Luis Alberto Urrea and also narrated by him. This is literary nonfiction that feels like an expanded long-form article that I might have read in High Country News, about a 2001 incident in which a group of 26 men attempted to cross the Mexican border into the Arizona desert; abandoned by their coyote, all but 12 died. I don't remember how I acquired this book, but it seems appropriate to listen to now, with the nation's focus on illegal immigration and the "need" for a border wall, and also, while running in the winter it's kind of nice to listen to something set in the hot desert sun.
What I'm watching now:
We caught up with the last two episodes of S3 of Outlander, and are now three episodes into S4.
What I'm playing now:
Still Pillars of Eternity, which hey, apparently I have recruited all my party members, woohoo! Also, I am absolutely in love with Pallegina's voice, which sounds enough like the voice actor who read Captain Zafira Zay in Baker's Magic that I had to look them both up to see if they were the same woman (they aren't).
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"The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections" by Tina Connolly, which
merit mentioned in a comment to last week's reads post. As in Diane Zahler's Baker's Magic, food can be imbued with emotions and feelings, and in this case, the pastries trigger memories. I liked the way the story was presented in flashback, through each memory the food called forth, but overall it was a fairly pat and uninteresting story (to me), and the pastry chef being named "Danny" just didn't work for me for a fantasy story (I know, it's the Tiffany Problem).
What I'm reading now:
I have read the first four "books" (chapters) of the Iliad! After a rough start, things started picking up, and I really enjoyed the fourth book, in which shit begins to get real. So far my favorite character is Nestor, because he is old and sensible and not a jerk like Agamemnon.
I have also started listening to the audiobook version of The Devil's Highway: A True Story by Luis Alberto Urrea and also narrated by him. This is literary nonfiction that feels like an expanded long-form article that I might have read in High Country News, about a 2001 incident in which a group of 26 men attempted to cross the Mexican border into the Arizona desert; abandoned by their coyote, all but 12 died. I don't remember how I acquired this book, but it seems appropriate to listen to now, with the nation's focus on illegal immigration and the "need" for a border wall, and also, while running in the winter it's kind of nice to listen to something set in the hot desert sun.
What I'm watching now:
We caught up with the last two episodes of S3 of Outlander, and are now three episodes into S4.
What I'm playing now:
Still Pillars of Eternity, which hey, apparently I have recruited all my party members, woohoo! Also, I am absolutely in love with Pallegina's voice, which sounds enough like the voice actor who read Captain Zafira Zay in Baker's Magic that I had to look them both up to see if they were the same woman (they aren't).
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