‼️ Instance migration announcement ‼️
I'm currently in the process of migrating to sunny.garden, so you might see a follow request from me. The profile picture is a cute pig in a shopping cart, but it's still me!
I'd love to keep as many of my lovely fedi connections as I can, so please give me a follow over on my new account.
Cheers and thanks for the good times, Writing Exchange!
Book 22 of 2024: Still Life by Winman
3.75 stars
I loved many things about this book: the prose, both major settings, some of the characters, the themes. But it was somehow less than the sum of its parts for me.
My two biggest complaints are my personal pet peeves in modern lit fic: a series of serendipitously interlocking stories where all the characters are magically related to each other, and the refusal to use quotation marks to indicate dialogue.
I've screamed at the screen several times so far, lordy. So gay! The owl people! The Kylie needle drop?! The fandom representation!
My partner says you can tell this episode was written by people who love and came of age with the RTD 1.0 era of Who. We both fall into this category, so we're having a ball.
I'm going straight to AO3 as soon as the episode is over. This is the kind of episode that conveys and creates the joys of a fun, creative fandom.
Book 21 of 2024
Menewood
4.5 stars
A sumptuous, mature sequel. Griffith creates well-drawn characters who feel real but sometimes hold startlingly alien values, appropriate to the era. There are some gorgeous passages about the natural world, spirituality, and grief.
This one had a tad too much war and battle strategy for my taste, but it's interesting to see Griffith try to reverse engineer an explanation for a pretty unexplainable historical event.
