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elainegrey) wrote2023-07-05 07:48 am
elainegrey) wrote2023-07-05 07:48 am
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(reading notes, household)
Not working: the air conditioning. Still, after a visit from the heating and air team yesterday. We think the line wasn't leveled after they installed a T site for us to insert algecide tablets.
This means more trips to our (really nice and clean, wrapped in white heavy plastic) crawl space.
I spent 40 min July 4th morning morning looking for an alternative company because Christine's frustrated with the folks we use -- I think she's much more happy with impersonal corporate service where there's more process.
I'm exhausted. I did read a lot.
* Asteroid City. Focus Features, Indian Paintbrush, American Empirical Pictures, 2023.
(Not reading) Last Thursday with my siblings' families. My first theater since COVID. enjoyed.
* Janssen, Victoria, and Kalikoi Books. Dissenter Rebellion: The Rattri Extraction, 2023.
This is a back story to Janssen's Finding Refuge trilogy, which i enjoyed. I don't know how Janssen makes a rebellion action *cozy* but i love the sense awareness of the main character and seeing how she comes to connect to the others in her rebellion cell. Will read more
* Kabi, Nagata. My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness. Illustrated edition. Seven Seas, 2017.
I read three of these manga and have multiple feelings. One is a sense of being so different because of coming of age before the internet was the way it was for this author: she finds a responsive audience for her stories and that provides a thread she can hold onto in deep depression. I also wonder how different the internet experience is now for my niblings.
* Lupton, E. H. Dionysus in Wisconsin.
Very fun, look forward to more stories from this universe.
* Martine, Arkady. A Memory Called Empire.
Loved the intensity, loved the ethical challenge presented to the ambassador to the empire from a small as-yet-independent community. My main thought about sequels is that continuing to deal with imperial power is a hard slog: i hope Martine can honor the complexities of such a slog.
* Pratchett, Terry. I Shall Wear Midnight.
Fun, escaped.
This means more trips to our (really nice and clean, wrapped in white heavy plastic) crawl space.
I spent 40 min July 4th morning morning looking for an alternative company because Christine's frustrated with the folks we use -- I think she's much more happy with impersonal corporate service where there's more process.
I'm exhausted. I did read a lot.
* Asteroid City. Focus Features, Indian Paintbrush, American Empirical Pictures, 2023.
(Not reading) Last Thursday with my siblings' families. My first theater since COVID. enjoyed.
* Janssen, Victoria, and Kalikoi Books. Dissenter Rebellion: The Rattri Extraction, 2023.
This is a back story to Janssen's Finding Refuge trilogy, which i enjoyed. I don't know how Janssen makes a rebellion action *cozy* but i love the sense awareness of the main character and seeing how she comes to connect to the others in her rebellion cell. Will read more
* Kabi, Nagata. My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness. Illustrated edition. Seven Seas, 2017.
I read three of these manga and have multiple feelings. One is a sense of being so different because of coming of age before the internet was the way it was for this author: she finds a responsive audience for her stories and that provides a thread she can hold onto in deep depression. I also wonder how different the internet experience is now for my niblings.
* Lupton, E. H. Dionysus in Wisconsin.
Very fun, look forward to more stories from this universe.
* Martine, Arkady. A Memory Called Empire.
Loved the intensity, loved the ethical challenge presented to the ambassador to the empire from a small as-yet-independent community. My main thought about sequels is that continuing to deal with imperial power is a hard slog: i hope Martine can honor the complexities of such a slog.
* Pratchett, Terry. I Shall Wear Midnight.
Fun, escaped.
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They're among my favourites by Sir Pterry.
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Chun Woo saw Asteroid City Monday night and as of yesterday was still thinking about WTF was that.
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