i like a little weird in my tv shows
What I just finished reading:
quicksilver, FINALLY. i don't even know what i think about it, other than "long and dense and full of science". i kept wanting to know what happened, and i didn't resort to skipping ahead to find out, so that's something. and for all the world-shaking events happening around the characters, their relationships with each other felt kind of cozy, and i liked that.
i started reading this in september. and yes, i took a couple breaks to read other things (mostly the kind-of guidebook about cuba), but still, five and a half months is some kind of record.
What I am reading now:
record of a spaceborn few, by becky chambers, also FINALLY. i'm not that far in and so far it's a lot like the long way to a small, angry planet in that we're getting to know the characters and the world, but an actual plot (or any reason for all these people to be together) has yet to reveal itself. but i like it. there's something about becky chambers' writing that i really like. it's fun and kind of soothing.
What I'm going to read next:
dunno! probably the beatrix gates because i have it. there's probably something in my house i haven't read yet.
i'm 99.44% sure the regional head of tax is encouraging the very special partner to think of me (and treat me) like her own personal assistant. apparently all the partners in the new york offices have their own admins, and no one there knows (or probably cares) how the boston office is set up. like, we have two admins, total. but she clearly thinks i should be hers. (can you see me rolling my eyes? i totally am.)
i generally kind of like josh but i did not miss him at all. alice needs to stop doing things. margo telling fen if she started to cry for eliot she'd never stop was heartbreaking. but also her need to keep moving and keep doing things and keep finding problems to fix was very her. fen having her first cry - for two hours! - was weirdly cute. i don't remember iris at all. alice tricking plover the perv into the poison well wasn't an awful idea. i totally get why quentin didn't want to hear it. poor shoshana! poor eliot! at least he knows how profoundly fucked up he is. after all those terrible childhood memories his worst memory - the thing intense enough to get him a door out of the monster - was telling quentin no, because he was so afraid. and now they know he's not dead but how do they free him?
how much do i love that his whole subplot revolved around that episode where he and quentin lived an entire lifetime with each other? i love that episode so much.
also, fillory has a royal sheep choir. bleats of despair. sometimes this show is so WEIRD. i love it.
quicksilver, FINALLY. i don't even know what i think about it, other than "long and dense and full of science". i kept wanting to know what happened, and i didn't resort to skipping ahead to find out, so that's something. and for all the world-shaking events happening around the characters, their relationships with each other felt kind of cozy, and i liked that.
i started reading this in september. and yes, i took a couple breaks to read other things (mostly the kind-of guidebook about cuba), but still, five and a half months is some kind of record.
What I am reading now:
record of a spaceborn few, by becky chambers, also FINALLY. i'm not that far in and so far it's a lot like the long way to a small, angry planet in that we're getting to know the characters and the world, but an actual plot (or any reason for all these people to be together) has yet to reveal itself. but i like it. there's something about becky chambers' writing that i really like. it's fun and kind of soothing.
What I'm going to read next:
dunno! probably the beatrix gates because i have it. there's probably something in my house i haven't read yet.
i'm 99.44% sure the regional head of tax is encouraging the very special partner to think of me (and treat me) like her own personal assistant. apparently all the partners in the new york offices have their own admins, and no one there knows (or probably cares) how the boston office is set up. like, we have two admins, total. but she clearly thinks i should be hers. (can you see me rolling my eyes? i totally am.)
i generally kind of like josh but i did not miss him at all. alice needs to stop doing things. margo telling fen if she started to cry for eliot she'd never stop was heartbreaking. but also her need to keep moving and keep doing things and keep finding problems to fix was very her. fen having her first cry - for two hours! - was weirdly cute. i don't remember iris at all. alice tricking plover the perv into the poison well wasn't an awful idea. i totally get why quentin didn't want to hear it. poor shoshana! poor eliot! at least he knows how profoundly fucked up he is. after all those terrible childhood memories his worst memory - the thing intense enough to get him a door out of the monster - was telling quentin no, because he was so afraid. and now they know he's not dead but how do they free him?
how much do i love that his whole subplot revolved around that episode where he and quentin lived an entire lifetime with each other? i love that episode so much.
also, fillory has a royal sheep choir. bleats of despair. sometimes this show is so WEIRD. i love it.