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My goodreads currently-reading count is down to TEN. One of those has to be finished by Thursday, for a book club. Hopefully by next fortnight's book post I can be down to seven?
Currently Reading:
Fiction: Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Mercies, which I am enjoying but suspicious of (I do not think the fjord approaching Trondheim has ever been called Kristiansfjord? Also, women weren't on the ENGLISH stage in 1617; I can't find dates for scotland, but I am suspcious). It's Rather Good but not Hannah Kent levels of good. Technically I am also reading Nina McLauchlin, 'Wake, Siren', but I haven't touched it since I started on The Mercies. Three Daughters of Eve remains on hiatus. I started Garth Greenwell's 'What Belongs To You' in audiobook, and it's very good, but it hasn't broken through Pandemic Brain like The Mercies has.
Non-fiction for personal interest: Haven't touched The Queer Child for a while
Poetry: Paradise Lost podcast is on the backburner atm
Lit Mag: Summer Meanjin, I am DETERMINED to finish it before my re-posted spring issue turns up, but The Mercies is monopolising my attention.
For Work: The Romance of the Rose, Lettres Gothiques edition - picking my way through select passages that I identified by reading the English translation. Holy Sh*t, but I haven't got far with it since I focused on finishing a library book. I have 'A New Companion to Chaucer' filed in goodreads, because I've been working down the alphabet and printing a few relevant chapters every time I'm in the office.
Recently Finished:
The Sting of It by A.J. Odasso
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I liked this a lot! Some of the personal poems on family/gender/illness are absolute gems. It's not my favourite of AJO's, though: at times the second-person conversational mode felt laboured.
Habeas Corpus by Alan Bennett
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Well that sure was a play. I suspect it would be very fun to stage.
This is only my second encounter with Alan Bennet, but I have a question: do *all* his plays incorporate what in contemporary UK parlance would be called "safeguarding failures"? Abuses of position by authority figures (here, doctors; History Boys, teachers)? Is that just his Thing?
Violence Against Women in Early Modern Performance: Invisible Acts by Kim Solga
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I LOVE THIS BOOK AND I WANT TO SEE ALL THE CONTEMPORARY PRODUCTIONS IT DISCUSSES AND ALSO I WANT TO KNOW SOLGA'S THOUGHTS ON YAEL FARBER'S SALOME SEND POST
The Romance of the Rose by Guillaume de Lorris
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
I remain suspicious of this translation but it's readable, and i should have read the entire thing in English the first time around - I picked up a LOT more when I wasn't mainly skimming to see if there was something key to my topic in any given passage.
The Quite Nice and Fairly Accurate Good Omens Script Book by Neil Gaiman
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I am not going to rehash my wildly mixed feelings about this show here, but they sure do remain wildly mixed. I enjoyed the live reading experience via zoom, although I also discovered I don't like TV scripts much - I had requested to play A or C in one episode, and by the time it got to my turn I rescinded my request in favour of God and/or Stage Directions, because the rapid scene cutting meant I felt robotic in any character (except RP Tyler. I can always embody RP Tyler).
Up Next: I've set myself the task of reading everything in the 'shared readings' folder for work, mostly articles and chapters, by next team meeting, so I suspect that will slow me down a little. As soon as I'm through with Holy Sh*t I'm starting on Carissa Harris' Obscene Pedagogies, and when I clear out some of the fiction I'll pick something from the TBR trolley by a person of colour (I'm... not doing well on my overall reading count this year, but REALLY not winning on racial diversity). When I'm done with Wake, Siren I have some more Chaucer adaptations to start, too.
At this point I often do links to online fiction / particularly good essays, but I just haven't the capacity today. Maybe tomorrow, maybe next weekend as well as the Listening Post.
Currently Reading:
Fiction: Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Mercies, which I am enjoying but suspicious of (I do not think the fjord approaching Trondheim has ever been called Kristiansfjord? Also, women weren't on the ENGLISH stage in 1617; I can't find dates for scotland, but I am suspcious). It's Rather Good but not Hannah Kent levels of good. Technically I am also reading Nina McLauchlin, 'Wake, Siren', but I haven't touched it since I started on The Mercies. Three Daughters of Eve remains on hiatus. I started Garth Greenwell's 'What Belongs To You' in audiobook, and it's very good, but it hasn't broken through Pandemic Brain like The Mercies has.
Non-fiction for personal interest: Haven't touched The Queer Child for a while
Poetry: Paradise Lost podcast is on the backburner atm
Lit Mag: Summer Meanjin, I am DETERMINED to finish it before my re-posted spring issue turns up, but The Mercies is monopolising my attention.
For Work: The Romance of the Rose, Lettres Gothiques edition - picking my way through select passages that I identified by reading the English translation. Holy Sh*t, but I haven't got far with it since I focused on finishing a library book. I have 'A New Companion to Chaucer' filed in goodreads, because I've been working down the alphabet and printing a few relevant chapters every time I'm in the office.
Recently Finished:
The Sting of It by A.J. OdassoMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
I liked this a lot! Some of the personal poems on family/gender/illness are absolute gems. It's not my favourite of AJO's, though: at times the second-person conversational mode felt laboured.
Habeas Corpus by Alan BennettMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Well that sure was a play. I suspect it would be very fun to stage.
This is only my second encounter with Alan Bennet, but I have a question: do *all* his plays incorporate what in contemporary UK parlance would be called "safeguarding failures"? Abuses of position by authority figures (here, doctors; History Boys, teachers)? Is that just his Thing?
Violence Against Women in Early Modern Performance: Invisible Acts by Kim SolgaMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
I LOVE THIS BOOK AND I WANT TO SEE ALL THE CONTEMPORARY PRODUCTIONS IT DISCUSSES AND ALSO I WANT TO KNOW SOLGA'S THOUGHTS ON YAEL FARBER'S SALOME SEND POST
The Romance of the Rose by Guillaume de LorrisMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
I remain suspicious of this translation but it's readable, and i should have read the entire thing in English the first time around - I picked up a LOT more when I wasn't mainly skimming to see if there was something key to my topic in any given passage.
The Quite Nice and Fairly Accurate Good Omens Script Book by Neil GaimanMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
I am not going to rehash my wildly mixed feelings about this show here, but they sure do remain wildly mixed. I enjoyed the live reading experience via zoom, although I also discovered I don't like TV scripts much - I had requested to play A or C in one episode, and by the time it got to my turn I rescinded my request in favour of God and/or Stage Directions, because the rapid scene cutting meant I felt robotic in any character (except RP Tyler. I can always embody RP Tyler).
Up Next: I've set myself the task of reading everything in the 'shared readings' folder for work, mostly articles and chapters, by next team meeting, so I suspect that will slow me down a little. As soon as I'm through with Holy Sh*t I'm starting on Carissa Harris' Obscene Pedagogies, and when I clear out some of the fiction I'll pick something from the TBR trolley by a person of colour (I'm... not doing well on my overall reading count this year, but REALLY not winning on racial diversity). When I'm done with Wake, Siren I have some more Chaucer adaptations to start, too.
At this point I often do links to online fiction / particularly good essays, but I just haven't the capacity today. Maybe tomorrow, maybe next weekend as well as the Listening Post.