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March Roundup
Actually on time this month! I wrote 11,048 words, completed one short original piece and finished editing on something else. I continue to make my minimum standard, but not my goal. I expect April will be more of the same, given everything I've got going on, but then I have some big deadlines at the end of April that might motivate me.
Movies and Books, March 2012:
The Stand [miniseries]
Birdsong [miniseries]
Murdoch Mysteries [Season 4]
Blow Dry
Martha Marcy May Marlene
plus
Corwin Ericson - SWELL
This was a deeply weird book, which of course meant I was immediately drawn to it. There were some troubling/problematic aspects, when I stepped back and thought about it, and the middle section dragged, but most of the time when I was reading it I was fairly enthralled.
Maurice Broaddus and Jerry Gordon, eds. - Dark Faith
As with any book of short stories, I liked some more than I liked others, but in general it's a very strong collection with a number of standout pieces. I think the ones that probably stick with me the most are "The Mad Eyes of the Heron King" and "Days of Flaming Motor Cycles."
Guy Adams - Restoration
I had the same difficulty with this book as I did with it's predecessor--it was an uphill battle at first, getting into it. I'd been picking away at it for a long time. But then once I got over the hump I accellerated right to the end of the book. It's got some fascinating ideas, and I enjoyed it, but it was a bit of a rough road getting there.
Drew Magary - The Postmortal
A lot of works address the problems with and consequences of immortality, but I felt like this one maybe gave the best overall picture that I've seen. Not perfect, but very good.
N. K. Jemisin - The Kingdom of Gods
I pretty much just devoured this. I got something I didn't expect to get out of it in the end, which I don't know how to explain without writing an essay about it, so I'll just say that it made me...I'm not sure 'happy' is the word, but I was intensely satisfied.
Lavie Tidhar - HebrewPunk
A consistently good and extremely imaginative collection; the supernatural from a largely-unexplored point of view, as far as speculative fiction is concerned. I'm looking forward to reading more of his books (which are somewhere in my queue).
James Morrow - Shambling Towards Hiroshima
A B-movie actor helps the U.S. Navy demonstrate the power of gigantic, fire-breathing mutant iguanas during WWII? Yes, please! A very well done—and suprisingly moving—satire, and a thrill for lovers of monster movies.
Johanna Skibsrud - The Sentimentalists
I really wanted to like this book more than I did. Ultimately it just didn't resonate with me.
So a lot more books than movies this month, largely because I was housesitting for the better part of a week and didn't have internet access. Clearly the internet has ruined my life. I've also finally actually started using my goodreads that I registered, oh, four years ago.
I signed up for spn_j2_bigbang this year despite not having written CW RPF or Supernatural for a while, firmly believing at the time that I both could and wanted to, but now I'm struggling to figure out what I'm going to do. Turns out I'm not sure I can write CW RPF anymore, my base knowledge is just too far out of date, and I worry that anything I write (and there are several options) would seem quaint. Maybe what I really want to write is old school Supernatural. First and second season era stuff. I have a few things started but I'm just not sure what I want to do.
This entry was originally posted at http://cj.dreamwidth.org/9345.html.
Movies and Books, March 2012:
The Stand [miniseries]
Birdsong [miniseries]
Murdoch Mysteries [Season 4]
Blow Dry
Martha Marcy May Marlene
plus
Corwin Ericson - SWELL
This was a deeply weird book, which of course meant I was immediately drawn to it. There were some troubling/problematic aspects, when I stepped back and thought about it, and the middle section dragged, but most of the time when I was reading it I was fairly enthralled.
Maurice Broaddus and Jerry Gordon, eds. - Dark Faith
As with any book of short stories, I liked some more than I liked others, but in general it's a very strong collection with a number of standout pieces. I think the ones that probably stick with me the most are "The Mad Eyes of the Heron King" and "Days of Flaming Motor Cycles."
Guy Adams - Restoration
I had the same difficulty with this book as I did with it's predecessor--it was an uphill battle at first, getting into it. I'd been picking away at it for a long time. But then once I got over the hump I accellerated right to the end of the book. It's got some fascinating ideas, and I enjoyed it, but it was a bit of a rough road getting there.
Drew Magary - The Postmortal
A lot of works address the problems with and consequences of immortality, but I felt like this one maybe gave the best overall picture that I've seen. Not perfect, but very good.
N. K. Jemisin - The Kingdom of Gods
I pretty much just devoured this. I got something I didn't expect to get out of it in the end, which I don't know how to explain without writing an essay about it, so I'll just say that it made me...I'm not sure 'happy' is the word, but I was intensely satisfied.
Lavie Tidhar - HebrewPunk
A consistently good and extremely imaginative collection; the supernatural from a largely-unexplored point of view, as far as speculative fiction is concerned. I'm looking forward to reading more of his books (which are somewhere in my queue).
James Morrow - Shambling Towards Hiroshima
A B-movie actor helps the U.S. Navy demonstrate the power of gigantic, fire-breathing mutant iguanas during WWII? Yes, please! A very well done—and suprisingly moving—satire, and a thrill for lovers of monster movies.
Johanna Skibsrud - The Sentimentalists
I really wanted to like this book more than I did. Ultimately it just didn't resonate with me.
So a lot more books than movies this month, largely because I was housesitting for the better part of a week and didn't have internet access. Clearly the internet has ruined my life. I've also finally actually started using my goodreads that I registered, oh, four years ago.
I signed up for spn_j2_bigbang this year despite not having written CW RPF or Supernatural for a while, firmly believing at the time that I both could and wanted to, but now I'm struggling to figure out what I'm going to do. Turns out I'm not sure I can write CW RPF anymore, my base knowledge is just too far out of date, and I worry that anything I write (and there are several options) would seem quaint. Maybe what I really want to write is old school Supernatural. First and second season era stuff. I have a few things started but I'm just not sure what I want to do.
This entry was originally posted at http://cj.dreamwidth.org/9345.html.