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sircolinmorgan

Morse In Every Episode: 3.02 ARCADIA.

Something I am working on ...

#embroidery #white on white #ironbridge

swanfan17

capricorn-season

phoenix-gal

I think history will prove her right, and she'll be known for not just her books but her courage in standing up for women, especially when she was/is ruthlessly demonized, harassed, and punished for it. And also for being a major philanthropist helping women and children, obviously.

sircolinmorgan

Morse In Every Episode: 3.01 RIDE.

We watched Red Dragon (2002), the third Hannibal Lector film I've seen. Nothing comes close to The Silence of the Lambs but I think this is third on my list. Hannibal would be second. I wish the gruesomeness had been more evenly spilt between this and Hannibal - this was very tame really whereas Hannibal over-does it a bit with the carnivorous pigs AND the public disemboweling AND the brain food AND the meat cleaver to the arm AND ...

#my watching #films #red dragon #hannibal lecter

bloodstaineddarling

My Thoughts on Beautiful World Where Are You by Sally Rooney

I can see why some people might not like this one. It’s pretty clear that this book, among other things, was a kind of vessel for Sally to explore her socio-political and philosophical dilemmas. And instead of weaving those ideas neatly into the plot, they mostly show up in the form of letters between characters. That didn’t bother me, though. I actually liked the structure. Having chapters focused on each girl's story, interspersed with correspondence that muses on life, God, beauty, and society, etc. I found that interesting.

It probably helped that I’m a socialist myself, so reading characters with a socialist worldview didn’t feel shocking or new to me, and that’s okay. Not everything has to be groundbreaking.

Also, I don’t know why it took me two years to pick it up off my shelf and then another five months to finish it. It wasn’t hard or bad, and I wasn't bored... it just... kind of happened. Things sometimes happen. Sometimes you just read a book for 5 months.

This wasn’t my favourite Sally Rooney, and I don't know if it makes sense, but this being her third book makes perfect sense to me. I might sound crazy but it just makes sense.

Regardless, I’ll read anything she writes. I’m up her ass, unfortunately. I have nothing more to say because if you like Sally, you like Sally, and I don't think this should be your first Sally when Normal People exists.

cow-in-the-sunset

Lucy Gray Baird

Haymitch Abernathy

Katniss Everdeen

Peeta Mellark

Finished Beautiful World, Where Are You. I wanted to be wowed, like I was with Normal People, but this failed to wow me. It fails to go anywhere interesting, and again (as with Conversations With Friends) I just hated all the characters. Alice and Eileen, the two main female protagonists, send each other mind-bendingly tedious emails about politics and philosopy. Are they the author's opinions on stuff? Or just there to tell us Alice and Eileen are Good People? There's a series of sex scenes which don't serve much purpose. There's interminable and unnecessary detail about people opening texts, checking the fridge, etc which are kind of numbing in the end.

I'll try Intermezzo when I have recovered a bit, now reading Butter.

#my reading #sally rooney #beautiful world where are you

The Most Mysterious Bookshop in Shropshire. Sign in window says "By chance or appointment ..." which is a good opening to a novel, IMHO.

It was actually occupied today (I wouldn't go so far as to say "open") but I didn't go in because extreme thriftiness is in operation and I knew I'd buy something.

#my photos #bookshops #shropshire #ludlow #peter j. hadley books #corve street

Lovely interview with Darren Moore, all round good bloke who should have had a long managerial career with West Brom. Still cross about that.

#my watching #podcasts #the managers #west bromwich albion #football #baggies #darren moore

thewomanwhowasthursday

One of my favorite things Harriet says throughout all Sayer's novels is this, when asked by Lord Peter if she thought life was worth living:

"I've always felt absolutely certain it was good--if only one could get it straightened out. I've hated almost everything that ever happened to me, but I knew all the time it was just things that were wrong, not everything. Even when I felt most awful I never thought of killing myself or wanting to die--only of somehow getting out of the mess and starting again."

I finished Anne Tyler's The Accidental Marriage (oh, to write like Anne Tyler!) and knocked off the second Inspector Morse from the set my children bought me for Christmas - Last Seen Wearing (book Morse very unlike TV Morse and I don't like it. Also, wasn't this the one with Liz Hurley in? why did the TV make the school so posh? I shall have to rewatch.)