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Things I have recently finished:
- Chuck S1. I NEED MORE ZACHARY LEVI IN MY LIFE RIGHT THE FUCK NOW. (Relatedly: how close am I to sneaking off to the cinema and just buying myself a ticket for Tangled and watching it ALL ON MY OWN? Kind of embarrassingly close. Luckily (??) my money situation is weep-inducing, so this probably won't happen.)
- The volume of Carol Ann Duffy's poems that I bought in Oxford. I think if you asked me right now what sort of poet I would like to be, I would tell you 'the unholy hybrid of CAD and Wilfred Owen'.
Things I have recently begun:
(Okay, Thing:)
- Patrick Rothfuss's The Name of the Wind, which my sister forced upon me. I'd forgotten how satisfying good high fantasy could be, having gorged on it in high school and abandoned it at the age of 15 pleading surfeit. I think the writing is excellent but I do wish the protagonist were a little less perfect; however, I'm only a third of the way through, so maybe he will yet develop a flaw. (I doubt it.)
& Miscellany:
- For dinner tonight we made the most delicious prawns I have ever had in my life, and all we had to do was shell the buggers and marinate them in oil & garlic & chilli and then shove them onto the grilling plate for a while. SO GOOD.
- Today I put on and removed half a thousand casts at the paediatric fracture clinic. Highlights: the girl who screamed up a tempest as soon as I started the saw (THANKS FOR MAKING ME LOOK LIKE HANNIBAL LECTER, KIDDO) and the boy who firmly, repeatedly, unshakeably expressed his desire for a bright pink cast, despite his mother helpfully reminding him that the other kids at school would call him a poof.
- If I don't scrape up the ability to write anything soon I will fucking explode. This is getting ridiculous.
- STOP DANGLING PAID ACCOUNTS IN FRONT OF ME, LJ, I FEEL POOR ENOUGH ALREADY.
- Chuck S1. I NEED MORE ZACHARY LEVI IN MY LIFE RIGHT THE FUCK NOW. (Relatedly: how close am I to sneaking off to the cinema and just buying myself a ticket for Tangled and watching it ALL ON MY OWN? Kind of embarrassingly close. Luckily (??) my money situation is weep-inducing, so this probably won't happen.)
- The volume of Carol Ann Duffy's poems that I bought in Oxford. I think if you asked me right now what sort of poet I would like to be, I would tell you 'the unholy hybrid of CAD and Wilfred Owen'.
Things I have recently begun:
(Okay, Thing:)
- Patrick Rothfuss's The Name of the Wind, which my sister forced upon me. I'd forgotten how satisfying good high fantasy could be, having gorged on it in high school and abandoned it at the age of 15 pleading surfeit. I think the writing is excellent but I do wish the protagonist were a little less perfect; however, I'm only a third of the way through, so maybe he will yet develop a flaw. (I doubt it.)
& Miscellany:
- For dinner tonight we made the most delicious prawns I have ever had in my life, and all we had to do was shell the buggers and marinate them in oil & garlic & chilli and then shove them onto the grilling plate for a while. SO GOOD.
- Today I put on and removed half a thousand casts at the paediatric fracture clinic. Highlights: the girl who screamed up a tempest as soon as I started the saw (THANKS FOR MAKING ME LOOK LIKE HANNIBAL LECTER, KIDDO) and the boy who firmly, repeatedly, unshakeably expressed his desire for a bright pink cast, despite his mother helpfully reminding him that the other kids at school would call him a poof.
- If I don't scrape up the ability to write anything soon I will fucking explode. This is getting ridiculous.
- STOP DANGLING PAID ACCOUNTS IN FRONT OF ME, LJ, I FEEL POOR ENOUGH ALREADY.
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*By which I mean Zach Levi's voice, but WHATEVER IT IS GREAT.
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Someday we will have to visit your strange, strange land, because Exotic Tassie Housemate has convinced us that it is an enlightened place, full of wonders and fresh produce.
I still haven't recovered from seeing that recipe for Wallaby Shanks with Fresh Thyme Sauce in AWW, though.
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I think it is, anyway! It's got a very engaging story and meticulous worldbuilding, it's told beautifully, and I like the protagonist quite a lot despite the fact that he is brilliant at everything. So far the book has been male-dominated but...not sexist? There has been one kind of pointed scene where the protagonist stumbles across what is basically workplace harrassment and is like OH HELL TO THE NO, THIS WOMAN IS NOT COMFORTABLE, I WILL CAUSE A DISTRACTION. I would like some more female characters to appear, but it is not overly getting in the way of my enjoyment of the book so far.
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And you will be a sage Medical Personage by then, which is useful, bc I'm kind of scared of your country (fresh produce aside) because nature wants to kill everyone there. Probably even in Sydney. Who's to say cassowaries don't enjoy yum cha?
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Now that I have heard that you enjoyed it, I will most definitely pick it up! (one more question though: does it have gross rapey/violence against ladies parts? because that's pretty much what made me abandon high fantasy as a genre)
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And no, it does not (though I am, as noted, only 1/3 of the way into the book). Rape is mentioned as a sad fact of life for people (women and men) living on the streets, and I think domestic violence is breifly touched on as well, but they have never been described with any kind of detail or, in fact, any sense of narratorial attitude other than THIS SHIT IS BAD.
Having glanced at Patrick Rothfuss's website, apparently he is an adviser to the College Feminists group at the college where he teaches, and I must say that, as a book, it reads like something written by a feminist; albeit a feminist writing predominantly about male characters. I have zero problems with the characterisation of the women who HAVE appeared, too.