What Are You Reading Wednesday
Feb. 20th, 2019 09:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
highlyeccentricCurrently Reading:
Fiction: Yelena Moscovitch, Virtuoso, which has taken another turn for the Weird. It's *good*, but every time I get engrossed in a plot arc there's a massive switch, and currently I think there's two contradictory plots going on?
Lit Mag: Lifted Brow 'Blak Brow' edition, although I haven't picked it up for a while
Academic: Nothing
Other non-fiction: A. Revathi, The Truth About Me: A Hijra Life Story. It's proving to be a really ... readable read? The prose style is clear and accessible, like you're sitting down to take tea with Revathi. Although she's describing some pretty brutal stuff, there's a sense of warmth and hope suffusing the narrative.
Recently Finished:
My hard-copy finished reads this week were both academic: finally finished 'Contemporary Chaucer Across Centuries', and today read key articles out of the first issue of Emotions: History, Culture, Society. Have yet to annotate either.
Online fiction:
Up Next: I need to annotate the two academic reads I've finished, and then hopefully read the several more back issues of E:HCS I have on my shelf.
Music Notes:
The way you can tell I'm not actually a lesbian is I never got into Tegan and Sara. But I did recently find their cover of Dancing In The Dark:
I found it while I was looking for *this* cover,
Someone named Trevor Horn has done a whole album of these covers of 80s classics, and I'm in love with them.
I have also, late to the party, discovered Despacito, and Louis Fonsi in general.
Fiction: Yelena Moscovitch, Virtuoso, which has taken another turn for the Weird. It's *good*, but every time I get engrossed in a plot arc there's a massive switch, and currently I think there's two contradictory plots going on?
Lit Mag: Lifted Brow 'Blak Brow' edition, although I haven't picked it up for a while
Academic: Nothing
Other non-fiction: A. Revathi, The Truth About Me: A Hijra Life Story. It's proving to be a really ... readable read? The prose style is clear and accessible, like you're sitting down to take tea with Revathi. Although she's describing some pretty brutal stuff, there's a sense of warmth and hope suffusing the narrative.
Recently Finished:
My hard-copy finished reads this week were both academic: finally finished 'Contemporary Chaucer Across Centuries', and today read key articles out of the first issue of Emotions: History, Culture, Society. Have yet to annotate either.
Online fiction:
- Aurelie Sheehan (Guernica Mag), The Suit. A bit of a Weird Fiction short piece, from her forthcoming collection.
I wore a particular ’50s-style suit for almost a year when I was in graduate school. I realized what was going on one afternoon when I was standing in the English Department’s mailroom. I was a graduate assistant at the time. A man who had the name of another man was in the room with me, getting his mail. Soon he would die.
- I also started listening to Under Pressure, one of Starship Iris' sister podcasts. I believe the series summary will suffice to explain why I, in particular, am delighted with its premise:
In the wake of personal tragedy, Dr Jamie MacMillan-Barrie forgoes a future in academia is favor of an uncertain future in the form of an humanities residency aboard the Amphitrite, a deep-sea stationary research facility. On the Amphitrite, Dr MacMillan-Barrie tries to come to terms with her circumstance while facing her antipathetic hard-sciences colleagues, an unending series of minor crises both the personal and professional realm, and an increasingly hostile ocean above.
Up Next: I need to annotate the two academic reads I've finished, and then hopefully read the several more back issues of E:HCS I have on my shelf.
Music Notes:
The way you can tell I'm not actually a lesbian is I never got into Tegan and Sara. But I did recently find their cover of Dancing In The Dark:
I found it while I was looking for *this* cover,
Someone named Trevor Horn has done a whole album of these covers of 80s classics, and I'm in love with them.
I have also, late to the party, discovered Despacito, and Louis Fonsi in general.