Why Kindles are worse than paper books , specifically today

[nineveh_uk]

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.

Comments

[caulkhead]

I had to give up on Hunting, despite Jingyan as a detective and Xie Yu in the role he was born for as a sinister tech entrepreneur because it was just so bad at women.

[nineveh_uk]

When I get Amazon Prime again in September because I cannot possibly not see the new Lord of the Rings series, I want to watch Jingyan as a detective (again) in When a Snail Falls in Love.

[caulkhead]

That is an amazing title.

What's the Netflix one you're currently avoiding? It sounds rather like the one I've just finished on Viki, which was excellent, but rather wrenching in places (and very tense, I several times cursed the fact that I didn't check it had finished airing before I started watching and consequently had to wait a week between episodes like it was 2010 or something).

[nineveh_uk]

D.P. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58660760 More than one sounds excessive, so perhaps it is also on Viki

Waiting a week between episodes is so old-school! At least for anything online, I do tend to do it when they are on terrestrial though technically available on iPlayer etc.

[caulkhead]

Nope, different one entirely, though it seemed to be coming from very much the same place, albeit with a corruption-in-military-procurement main plot.

I hesitate to say 'lighter', because there were some heavy-duty tone shifts even by Kdrama standards, but it certainly had its moments in between all the tension.

[azdak]

I have Amazon Prime! I could watch Jingyan being a detective snail!

[caulkhead]

And yet again I wish I could draw.

[nineveh_uk]

Watch and report back!

[azdak]

Gosh, it must have been REALLY bad at women!

[caulkhead]

"Look, you may think your girlfriend/fiance is spending too long at work and she is clearly going to get sucked into some kind of insider trading scam because she is sweet and naive but holy double standards Batman, a) she's only doing it because you are and b)you clearly have no interest in her at all as an actual person and neither do the writers!."

And given that we also had Yujin as a really adorable sidekick, you can see just how annoying that was.

[azdak]

It's the "no interest in her at all as a person" that's the real kicker. There are a couple of female characters in "Under the Skin" who could be developed in all sorts of interesting ways, but they aren't because the default assumption is that women are boring - an obviously self-fulfilling prophecy!

[nineveh_uk]

And how hard can it be? Give her a few decent lines and look, you've got an extra useful character, too. And yet...

[nineveh_uk]

OH dear, that does sound very annoying.