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Jul. 9th, 2013 03:14 amSo then I had to move because the landlord is remodelling and then I was, technically, homeless for a few days even though I was just staying in the place that I officially live in now for the next couple of months, so what with one thing and another, I didn't do a lot of media consumption and I definitely missed a week posting. You totally forgive me, right?
Week of June 24:
Linked, Imogen Howson (Look, you can't tell me that your story's civilization is humanity thousands of years in the future and then talk about people eating chicken dinners and wearing jeans. You just - you can't. That is not how worldbuilding works. The story is still good enough to hold my attention, but those details kept throwing me off.)
The Line, Teri Hall
Once a Witch, Carolyn MacCullough
Always a Witch, Carolyn MacCullough (I really enjoyed these two books! Except I don't think they needed to be two books. They're each less than two hundred pages and would have worked just as well as one novel in two parts. The titling scheme is clever, plus of course two books make more money, but from a narrative perspective, splitting them up is unnecessary. That's my biggest complaint, though. Well, that and the boyfriend who insists on being in charge of everything because he hasn't noticed that he's in a story that's mostly about women helping and saving each other. Why must there always be a romance?)
Monument 14, Emmy Laybourne
Week of July 1
Television:
Another, 1-12 (full series) (Because Corpse Party gave me a taste for horror anime, apparently. This series got a touch too symbolic for my taste every now and then, and I found myself yelling at the characters a LOT in the last couple of eps ["So we're just going to stand around discussing the screaming in calm voices, then? Is this a Japanese thing?"], but overall I really enjoyed it. The story was absorbing and I liked the characters. Even the one who inexplicably looked exactly like Morishige from CP, wtf.)
Week of June 24:
Linked, Imogen Howson (Look, you can't tell me that your story's civilization is humanity thousands of years in the future and then talk about people eating chicken dinners and wearing jeans. You just - you can't. That is not how worldbuilding works. The story is still good enough to hold my attention, but those details kept throwing me off.)
The Line, Teri Hall
Once a Witch, Carolyn MacCullough
Always a Witch, Carolyn MacCullough (I really enjoyed these two books! Except I don't think they needed to be two books. They're each less than two hundred pages and would have worked just as well as one novel in two parts. The titling scheme is clever, plus of course two books make more money, but from a narrative perspective, splitting them up is unnecessary. That's my biggest complaint, though. Well, that and the boyfriend who insists on being in charge of everything because he hasn't noticed that he's in a story that's mostly about women helping and saving each other. Why must there always be a romance?)
Monument 14, Emmy Laybourne
Week of July 1
Television:
Another, 1-12 (full series) (Because Corpse Party gave me a taste for horror anime, apparently. This series got a touch too symbolic for my taste every now and then, and I found myself yelling at the characters a LOT in the last couple of eps ["So we're just going to stand around discussing the screaming in calm voices, then? Is this a Japanese thing?"], but overall I really enjoyed it. The story was absorbing and I liked the characters. Even the one who inexplicably looked exactly like Morishige from CP, wtf.)