Wednesday Weather: Disappointingly Februaryish
1. I'm making labels for our shelves to encourage students to let us know if they "haven't found what they're looking for". I will have U2 stuck in my head for the rest of the day.
2. I'm seeing Black Panther in 3D tonight \o/ The glasses fit over my glasses pretty well, and aren't made of cardboard, so I'm quietly hopeful.
3. What I'm reading
I finished my second go-through of The Hanging Tree, and went back through the 4 complete Rivers of London Graphic Novels as well. As it's the only thing I'm feeling vaguely fannish about at the moment, I decided to go back and listen to the first book again. I'd forgotten that it has a lot more graphic gore than later books, which was a bit of a surprise. But it did remind me just why I fell in love with the books in the first place. Keeping track of plot is not my strong point, so it was the characters that drew me in, especially Peter. I like that he's a realistically drawn, head-driven person. It's not that he doesn't feel things, it's just that he is head-first, not heart-first. But it doesn't make him a robot or cold, it's just how he's built. As someone who is very much made that way as well, Peter was someone I instantly related to. While I love the others, Peter is my character in Rivers of London, and I do love writing his POV.
Which is good, because the Ferrari fic took an unexpected swerve yesterday, and is now about something entirely different that apparently Peter was interested in, even though I wasn't. So it goes.
I've also started Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd as part of my Wren churches research. It's interesting that I can't find much to connect Wren and Newton, despite them being the towering figures of the day. There's the obvious stuff - the Royal Society, and the question posed by Wren that Halley then asked Newton - but they seem to have more bounced off each other than seriously interacted. I'm going to have to do some reading on the Royal Society, and possibly each of them separately to get this one figured out, because apparently you guys want me to write a novella, not the ficlet I originally planned *shakes tiny fist*
Er. Where was I? Oh yes. Hawksmoor starts very strangely (and continues thus, I suspect) but once you get your ear into the style, it flows pretty well. I'd prefer to be listening to it, but the audiobook is incredibly expensive, as is the Kindle book. Luckily, it's on a Postmodernisms reading list, so we actually have a copy in the library. There are definitely perks to this job!
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2. I'm seeing Black Panther in 3D tonight \o/ The glasses fit over my glasses pretty well, and aren't made of cardboard, so I'm quietly hopeful.
3. What I'm reading
I finished my second go-through of The Hanging Tree, and went back through the 4 complete Rivers of London Graphic Novels as well. As it's the only thing I'm feeling vaguely fannish about at the moment, I decided to go back and listen to the first book again. I'd forgotten that it has a lot more graphic gore than later books, which was a bit of a surprise. But it did remind me just why I fell in love with the books in the first place. Keeping track of plot is not my strong point, so it was the characters that drew me in, especially Peter. I like that he's a realistically drawn, head-driven person. It's not that he doesn't feel things, it's just that he is head-first, not heart-first. But it doesn't make him a robot or cold, it's just how he's built. As someone who is very much made that way as well, Peter was someone I instantly related to. While I love the others, Peter is my character in Rivers of London, and I do love writing his POV.
Which is good, because the Ferrari fic took an unexpected swerve yesterday, and is now about something entirely different that apparently Peter was interested in, even though I wasn't. So it goes.
I've also started Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd as part of my Wren churches research. It's interesting that I can't find much to connect Wren and Newton, despite them being the towering figures of the day. There's the obvious stuff - the Royal Society, and the question posed by Wren that Halley then asked Newton - but they seem to have more bounced off each other than seriously interacted. I'm going to have to do some reading on the Royal Society, and possibly each of them separately to get this one figured out, because apparently you guys want me to write a novella, not the ficlet I originally planned *shakes tiny fist*
Er. Where was I? Oh yes. Hawksmoor starts very strangely (and continues thus, I suspect) but once you get your ear into the style, it flows pretty well. I'd prefer to be listening to it, but the audiobook is incredibly expensive, as is the Kindle book. Luckily, it's on a Postmodernisms reading list, so we actually have a copy in the library. There are definitely perks to this job!
This entry was originally posted at https://jadesfire.dreamwidth.org/583991.html where there are
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