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hamsterwoman

Reading and watching roundup

Feb 28, 2017 15:45

4. Rose Lerner, Listen to the Moon (Lively St Lemeston #3) -- so, this was an OK book for me, but it did drive home the realization that it was True Pretenses that was the (happy) fluke, nor Lerner's writing as a whole -- Sweet Disorder and this book were fine, enjoyable reads, and I even want to read more Lively St Lemeston books, because I've ( Read more... )

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timprov March 1 2017, 02:48:55 UTC

I've occasionally been telling Steve that the next book ought to be Yendi. Maybe he'll take me up on it at some point.

hamsterwoman March 1 2017, 03:54:52 UTC

Ha, I love it! :D

(I actually almost used my Yendi icon with this post. Clearly the universe itself is in support of your idea.)

qwentoozla March 1 2017, 02:55:24 UTC

Malcolm Tucker swearing is always good fun! XD I thought the same about the American accents in In the Loop, actually--they did sound weirdly fake. I thought maybe I had gotten too used to the British accents, but I don't know. The Thick of It is also great, especially series 3 and 4, I think.

hamsterwoman March 1 2017, 04:00:13 UTC

I'm glad to hear I'm not alone in finding the American accents in In the Loop weird! I also thought it might be just that they were contrasting against the British ones, but I think I've watched movies with mixed British and American accents before and didn't have that problem? Although maybe those "mixed" movies were always heavier on American than British accents, IDK. It was odd!

I want to watch The Thick of It, also, and I'm sure B will enjoy it. L, too, probably... or at least choice swearing bits :P

a_phoenixdragon March 1 2017, 04:12:34 UTC

*HUGS*

hamsterwoman March 1 2017, 08:47:02 UTC

Hope you guys are doing good!

meathiel March 1 2017, 08:13:57 UTC

I've seen the announcement for the Aaronovitch novella ... not sure I want to buy the hardcover ... meh ...

hamsterwoman March 1 2017, 08:46:46 UTC

$40 for a novella just seems ridiculous to me (or whatever the UK + shipping would be), so I think I'll just try to get a copy of the ebook -- hopefully there will be a legal way for me to buy it, because I really do want to give Aaronovitch my money. (If there isn't a legal way, I'll probably buy another couple of copies of the other books to give as gifts, heh.)

meathiel March 1 2017, 11:39:35 UTC

Yeah - I always acquire ... uhm ... non legal copies but I also always buy the papeerback. I just checked on Amazon ... the real book will be 12€ and the ebook 8€.

hamsterwoman March 1 2017, 20:00:37 UTC

as a many-times beneficiary of this practice, I'm all in favor :)

wow, 8€ for a novella seems rather steep... Maybe there will be some more info that justifies it...

egelantier March 1 2017, 08:51:02 UTC

haaaa, your writeups are a joy. there's a sequel? do you like the sequel? i should hunt it up at some point, if just to see if he can top his own zaniness. and i absolutely agree, icy had the best one-lines (and the most baffling romance ( ... )

hamsterwoman March 1 2017, 21:28:36 UTC

I'm glad these were fun to read through! :D I did end up amusing myself with the Palace Job write-up, because it's just so over the top! XD

icy had the best one-lines (and the most baffling romance).

Yes on both counts, LOL. And, I wasn't seeing the Icy/Kail you'd mentioned when I first read your reply, but by the end of the book I was finding that the most likely ship for both of those characters, too. (They have some nice moments together in the sequel, also.)

i'm... going to give the books a pass. Yeah, while there's some interesting stuff there, I think you'd find the ratio of hurt/comfort skewed rather too much towards hurt. I'll report on the second book as well, if/when I read it, because I have a suspicion it might be less dark. The darkness was less weird to me here than in Earthrise, because it's not so out-of-the-blue and unremarked-on as there, but I can't say that I enjoyed it more -- I was just less baffled when it cropped up because I knew to expect it. I do hope she'll do something with other parts of this ( ... )

egelantier March 1 2017, 21:34:44 UTC

oh! i do want the novella, gimme. my kindle should be aligned with my email, i think.

i think rafe was pretty upset about his upbringing in-text, we just didn't pay too much attention to it because he was a whiny dick because, well, i personally liked ash much better :P but it might also be a generational thing, or a class thing, or who knows.

hamsterwoman March 1 2017, 21:47:20 UTC

Novella should be on its way to you, hopefully!

I do think Rafe was upset in the text (and agree that I didn't pay too much attention because Ash was definitely my favorite), but I was willing to cut him some slack for storming off when he did because it is kinda a big revelation to spring on someone and I could see it hitting especially hard after the ingrained "us against the world" mentality. And, granted, Rafe had an impetus to come back, and who knows how long it would've taken him otherwise to get over his sulking, but I appreciated the "you don't turn your back on family even if you have complaints about how they raised you" message more than the "I can't deal with this, bye" resolutions with Nick and, to a lesser extent, with John. I mean, I'm assuming ultimately Nick and Lady Tassell will work things out, eventually, to some degree. But pretty clearly not any time soon...

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