What are you reading right now?

ribbons · 07-12-2022, 11:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

Oh no! Take care of yourself...

Get well soon.

Edit: as least this will give you the time you've been looking for to read my stories.
Oh no wait: you want to get better, don't you?

Thank you - I'm feeling much better. This this was a mild case - but it seems that since they relaxed masking requirements at the office, every other person here is coming down with Covid.

I'm so sorry about being behind in reading. I definitely want to give the stories a focused read ASAP. No excuse - but just to explain, this new position has really disrupted things (not only working late in the office, but also working late hours at home - although I'm fortunate I can work at home). I need to gain my footing and get back to reading! Thanks for your patience.

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Originally Posted by jadis

I don't have any fever or headache, which helps when you want to enjoy reading. Hope you get better soon!

Hope you're recovering as well, jadis!

Trollheart · 07-12-2022, 01:06 PM

Hey, you're under no obligation to read them, so no apology or excuse necessary. I'll just be interested as to what you think of them, is all. Take your time.

music_collector · 07-12-2022, 10:15 PM

The blasted virus. I was tired of it long before my friend died from it. Wishing you all a speedy recovery.

I have a sneaking suspicion that it's circulating in my neighbourhood again. Kids everywhere are coughing up all kinds of crap. Parents are letting them play at the park too. Being a parent, I get why those kids are at the park. Still, I wish those kids would stay home for the good of the rest of us.

I can honestly say that nobody is coming to the office with so much as the sniffles anymore. It's one of the few positives (no pun intended, really) to come from the past few years.

Pet_Sounds · 07-12-2022, 10:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

She wants Sherlock Holmes again, so back to Baker Street we go, for selected adventures. Currently it's "The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist."

Have you seen the Jeremy Brett TV adaptation?

Trollheart · 07-13-2022, 11:42 AM

I saw some of them but I don't remember that one. "Thor Bridge" depressed me and I think I might have stopped after that. Oh no wait, it was something about a lady vanishing? Anyway it was very downbeat and I didn't like it. He was very good in the part though. "Lady Carfax", was it? Can't recall.

**Marie Monday** · 07-13-2022, 01:25 PM

@jadis I read Alison's giggle. Good stuff. The description of the mechanics behind Dorothea's attraction to Will Ladislaw made me lol

jadis · 07-13-2022, 08:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Marie Monday

@jadis I read Alison's giggle. Good stuff. The description of the mechanics behind Dorothea's attraction to Will Ladislaw made me lol

I'm glad you enjoyed it!

She should be better known, both as a sophisticated feminist thinker AND as the great British practitioner of magical realism in literature. As Terry Eagleton once wrote, "Where surreal fantasy and social satire intersect most fruitfully is in the women’s novel... This combination, which can be found in women writers as different as Muriel Spark, Fay Weldon and Jeanette Winterson, is at its most potent in the Gothic or carnivalesque imaginings of Angela Carter, one of the finest of all postwar English fiction writers."

Instead, the world was sold on a much, much ****tier representative of the genre, but what are you gonna do etc.

**Marie Monday** · 07-14-2022, 02:49 AM

Yeah I should read a book of hers. Who is the ****tier equivalent you are referring to?

jadis · 07-14-2022, 10:51 AM

Oh you know her. A British lady novelist famous for magical realism? Like really, really famous? So famous it's easy to forget she's supposed to be a novelist and not, I dunno, some kind of tycoon? Unlike the postmodernist Carter, she's not a big fan of the idea that gender roles are socially constructed... Should I go on?

adidasss · 07-14-2022, 11:01 AM

Magical realism? I recognize Rowling from the description but doesn't she just write fantasy (and the occasional thriller)?

07-12-2022, 01:06 PM	#7492 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,992	Hey, you're under no obligation to read them, so no apology or excuse necessary. I'll just be interested as to what you think of them, is all. Take your time. __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018

07-13-2022, 11:42 AM	#7495 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,992	I saw some of them but I don't remember that one. "Thor Bridge" depressed me and I think I might have stopped after that. Oh no wait, it was something about a lady vanishing? Anyway it was very downbeat and I didn't like it. He was very good in the part though. "Lady Carfax", was it? Can't recall. __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018

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adidasss Slavic gay sauce Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Abu Dhabi Posts: 7,993	Magical realism? I recognize Rowling from the description but doesn't she just write fantasy (and the occasional thriller)? __________________ “Think of what a paradise this world would be if men were kind and wise.” - Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle. Last.fm

07-12-2022, 10:15 PM	#7493 (permalink)
music_collector Music Addict Join Date: Apr 2022 Location: Canada Posts: 744	The blasted virus. I was tired of it long before my friend died from it. Wishing you all a speedy recovery. I have a sneaking suspicion that it's circulating in my neighbourhood again. Kids everywhere are coughing up all kinds of crap. Parents are letting them play at the park too. Being a parent, I get why those kids are at the park. Still, I wish those kids would stay home for the good of the rest of us. I can honestly say that nobody is coming to the office with so much as the sniffles anymore. It's one of the few positives (no pun intended, really) to come from the past few years.

07-14-2022, 10:51 AM	#7499 (permalink)
jadis Music Addict Join Date: Jun 2021 Location: dont ask Posts: 1,353	Oh you know her. A British lady novelist famous for magical realism? Like really, really famous? So famous it's easy to forget she's supposed to be a novelist and not, I dunno, some kind of tycoon? Unlike the postmodernist Carter, she's not a big fan of the idea that gender roles are socially constructed... Should I go on?