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highlyeccentricCurrently Reading:
Ha Jin, 'The Bridegroom: Stories', on loan fromleareth It's... interesting.
Love in the Time of Global Warming, which is *still* not keeping my attention.
What did you recently finish reading?
Harry Potter et la Coupe de Feu, lu par Bernard Girardeu: Oh _Harry_. I was struck again by how well Rowling depicted Harry's shock/trauma at the end of this book, something which as I recall was not handled as well in the next book. Not that his behaviour wasn't *realistic* for a traumatised fifteen-year-old, but that it wasn't as well *written*.
Have run out of easily streamed French HP audiobooks and moved on to watching Brooklyn99, so the latter point I won't be checking any time soon.
Recently consigned to the couldn't-wouldn't-finish list: House of Leaves (an annoying book for wankers), and Henry James' 'The Bostonians' (no I do not care to know what Henry James thinks are the dangers of 19th century feminism).
To read next: Uh... I'm not sure. I think I expect to skid through the month on low attention span, honestly. Observe the fact that in november I chewed through a stack of books and suddenly, poof. Nuffin. I've watched one and a half series of Brooklyn Nine Nine, though!
I have also given up on doing bi-monthly summary posts, pictorial or otherwise. There are cool photos of ducks, Amsterdam, sand dunes, and other such things to be found here: http://speculumannorum.tumblr.com/
Ha Jin, 'The Bridegroom: Stories', on loan from
leareth It's... interesting.Love in the Time of Global Warming, which is *still* not keeping my attention.
What did you recently finish reading?
Harry Potter et la Coupe de Feu, lu par Bernard Girardeu: Oh _Harry_. I was struck again by how well Rowling depicted Harry's shock/trauma at the end of this book, something which as I recall was not handled as well in the next book. Not that his behaviour wasn't *realistic* for a traumatised fifteen-year-old, but that it wasn't as well *written*.
Have run out of easily streamed French HP audiobooks and moved on to watching Brooklyn99, so the latter point I won't be checking any time soon.
Recently consigned to the couldn't-wouldn't-finish list: House of Leaves (an annoying book for wankers), and Henry James' 'The Bostonians' (no I do not care to know what Henry James thinks are the dangers of 19th century feminism).
To read next: Uh... I'm not sure. I think I expect to skid through the month on low attention span, honestly. Observe the fact that in november I chewed through a stack of books and suddenly, poof. Nuffin. I've watched one and a half series of Brooklyn Nine Nine, though!
I have also given up on doing bi-monthly summary posts, pictorial or otherwise. There are cool photos of ducks, Amsterdam, sand dunes, and other such things to be found here: http://speculumannorum.tumblr.com/
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Date: 2014-12-31 06:29 pm (UTC)But ouch ouch ouch, yes, you're so right about para #3 :( :( :( Effective propaganda, even if it's not intended to be, doesn't come out and say so, it often shows examples where everyone agree that in that example it makes sense, but implying they are common and universal, like 24 showing a contrived reason for torture :(