So because the Internet told me to, today after getting back from dinner I made myself a cup of tea and settled down to watching
Game of Thrones. Man, that is (and the italics are entirely well-deserved)
such a good show. I am enjoying everything about it - the cinematography of it, the script, the characters, the somehow not-at-all gratuitous violence & incest (not that I have a thing against gratuitous violence or incest, you guys! but this was just so good here), and. Granted, I haven't read the original novels, and don't know much about medieval history (to the extent that I watched it going, "So this is about the Saxons, right?"), but that doesn't matter so much, I don't think. Man! that is such a wonderful show. Watching TV in real time's always so weird, because usually by the time I get around to watching shows, I usually have a bunch of episodes to be catching up on. But the next episode's Sunday, and I'm all caught up on
Community, and
Doctor Who hasn't started yet (I am so excited, you guys. So excited. This term is going to be so great for TV.) Con: WHY DO I HAVE TO WAIT ANOTHER SEVEN DAYS FOR A NEW EPISODE OH MY GOD :( :( :( Pro: at least this means I get to watch new episodes along with the rest of the Internet, which is always fun! I don't know if I'm going to be viewing
Game of Thrones through a fannish lens per se, because when a piece of media is really really great I feel really shallow and superficial having, "These people are hot and they should bone," as my sole/main response to it. On the other hand: these people are hot and they should totally bone. Is there going to be a fandom for this/is there already one?
That aside. I have also got a book review!
The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald, edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli.
( I like Fitzgerald! Mostly. I still prefer The Great Gatsby, though. )Anyway. This has been a nice evening - TV and tea and booktalk. Now I'm just sitting at my laptop, playing this Okay song on loop (which expressed how I felt all the time, and sometimes still feel, in high school, it's uncanny). In a few minutes I will probably go shower, and wash my dishes. I like this evening.
Brick Lane, by Monica Ali | The Savage Detectives, by Robert Bolano | Homage to Catalonia, by George Orwell |
Cat On A Hot-Tin Roof, by Tennessee Williams | Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern, by Joshua Zeitz |
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, by Jeanette Winterson | The Moon By Night, by Madeleine L'Engle | To Live, by Yu Hua | Into The Wild, by Jon Krakauer | The Next Competitor, by K.P. Kincaid | Raffles Place Ragtime, by Phillip Jeyaretnam | Bella Tuscany: The Sweet Life in Italy, by Frances Mayes |
Mao's Last Dancer, by Li Cunxin | Marie, Dancing, by Carolyn Meyer | Man Walks Into A Room, by Nicole Krauss |
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