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reading wednesday
Dec. 26th, 2018 11:57 pm• What are you reading?
The Steerswoman, by Rosemary Kirstein.
Reread. This is such a hard book to talk about! Recommending it to my son, I said, "I remember the first time I read this, I wouldn't have kept going if my friends hadn't told me it was great. It's like yet another novelization of somebody's RPG. But that's not what it is at all. But I don't want to tell you anything else! Just read it!"
• What did you recently finish reading?
Pippi Longstocking, by Astrid Lindgren.
I remember being really worried, when I was the the age this book is meant for, by Pippi's embrace of Chaos. I was a believer in Order, and I liked stories that resolved rule-breaking by showing that a rule can be a bad rule, and the people in charge can fail to recognize that, because nobody is perfect; the way to resolve that is to convince the people in charge that the rule is a bad rule, and get it replaced with a better rule, moving us all toward a More Perfect Order.
Not Pippi, though. Pippi breaks rules and just don't care.
• What do you think you’ll read next?
Harriet the Spy, by Louise Fitzhugh, and a dozen other things to fill more slots in my 2018 Reading Challenge.
I'm thinking I might use this to keep track of what I watch, to? I don't know how useful that will be if I don't make comments, but I guess a list is better than nothing. So this week I watched
Sorry to Bother You. With Mungo. Mungo hated Detroit's art show. Couldn't see the point of it.
Atlanta
Unforgotten. That ending was nightmare fuel. I like police procedurals that depict striving for justice, while acknowledging that getting the right person convicted for the right crime won't make the victim whole, and a lot of the time you can't even do that. I don't like "You can't be charged with the terrible things you did, but karma has given this other person the power to torture you!"
The Steerswoman, by Rosemary Kirstein.
Reread. This is such a hard book to talk about! Recommending it to my son, I said, "I remember the first time I read this, I wouldn't have kept going if my friends hadn't told me it was great. It's like yet another novelization of somebody's RPG. But that's not what it is at all. But I don't want to tell you anything else! Just read it!"
• What did you recently finish reading?
Pippi Longstocking, by Astrid Lindgren.
I remember being really worried, when I was the the age this book is meant for, by Pippi's embrace of Chaos. I was a believer in Order, and I liked stories that resolved rule-breaking by showing that a rule can be a bad rule, and the people in charge can fail to recognize that, because nobody is perfect; the way to resolve that is to convince the people in charge that the rule is a bad rule, and get it replaced with a better rule, moving us all toward a More Perfect Order.
Not Pippi, though. Pippi breaks rules and just don't care.
• What do you think you’ll read next?
Harriet the Spy, by Louise Fitzhugh, and a dozen other things to fill more slots in my 2018 Reading Challenge.
I'm thinking I might use this to keep track of what I watch, to? I don't know how useful that will be if I don't make comments, but I guess a list is better than nothing. So this week I watched
Sorry to Bother You. With Mungo. Mungo hated Detroit's art show. Couldn't see the point of it.
Atlanta
Unforgotten. That ending was nightmare fuel. I like police procedurals that depict striving for justice, while acknowledging that getting the right person convicted for the right crime won't make the victim whole, and a lot of the time you can't even do that. I don't like "You can't be charged with the terrible things you did, but karma has given this other person the power to torture you!"