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nineveh_uk) wrote2022-05-02 09:37 pm
nineveh_uk) wrote2022-05-02 09:37 pm
Why Kindles are worse than paper books , specifically today
1) They're really annoying to flip back to check something.
2) You can't read them in the bath.
I feel let down. I have also let down myself by pulling the cartilage etc in my ribcage through ill-advised ironing and it is all on fire in a kind of cold way. It is very annoying, I hadn't done that for ages. C'est la vie. I worked the bank holiday because I am taking Friday off instead to see my sisters for the weekend (4 hours on the train each way, it's a good thing I love them), and it was quite peaceful and i could just get things done without interruptions. But term has hit like a stampede of wildebeest and my Winter Begonia rewatch has reached the depressing parts. I thought I might try Anne With an E - cheerful, pretty scenery, in English- and then I remembered that it is not a cheerful adaptation, which is very annoying. There is plenty of 'in the midst of life we are in death'in the original, it doesn't need extra grimdzrk for credibility.
Anyway, it is time for bed, the electric blanket, and She Who Became the Sun, which I started yesterday and am enjoying a lot.
2) You can't read them in the bath.
I feel let down. I have also let down myself by pulling the cartilage etc in my ribcage through ill-advised ironing and it is all on fire in a kind of cold way. It is very annoying, I hadn't done that for ages. C'est la vie. I worked the bank holiday because I am taking Friday off instead to see my sisters for the weekend (4 hours on the train each way, it's a good thing I love them), and it was quite peaceful and i could just get things done without interruptions. But term has hit like a stampede of wildebeest and my Winter Begonia rewatch has reached the depressing parts. I thought I might try Anne With an E - cheerful, pretty scenery, in English- and then I remembered that it is not a cheerful adaptation, which is very annoying. There is plenty of 'in the midst of life we are in death'in the original, it doesn't need extra grimdzrk for credibility.
Anyway, it is time for bed, the electric blanket, and She Who Became the Sun, which I started yesterday and am enjoying a lot.
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Only 20 episodes and light sounds good! Much as I want to watch the one about Korean army conscription on Netflix, it is not really reflective of my present mood and just light TV is more tempting. Is it case of the week structure? And the actor was decent in WB (I have just been regretting that annoying Ning Jiulang means I am unable to consider that storyline as devastating as it should be, even though I spotted this time that it is actually TV canon that he and Prince Qi are sleeping together).
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I should admit that Under the Skin is "light" for values of "light" that includes every victim so far being a woman and a tendency to sexualise said victims. However, it does pass the Bechdel test (we have just had a scene in which THREE women talk about a case with no men present) and the crimes are treated in a manner that makes them frankly a bit dull rather than emotionally devastating.
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A tendency to sexualise female victims is alas far from unique to Cdrama, and I am inured to it.