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Mar. 26th, 2012 09:40 pm1. Dead tired. Slept poorly last night. I blame The Hunger Games, Good Wife, and chocolate.
Also various travel anxiety dreams.
2. Am behind on my television series reviewing. No time to go in depth like I want to on The Good Wife which was excellent in its depiction of racial politics. If you think the US isn't racist? Watch the Good Wife - it really shows the insidious institutional racism that continues to exist...and why.
( vague spoilers )
Once Upon a Time was fascinating. Finally some movement on the Storybrook front. ( really vague spoilers - just on the fairy tale )
3. Making headway on The Night Circus, which holds the distinction of being amongst the few Young Adult novels I've recently read that isn't stuck in first person pov. But it does jump around a lot, perhaps too much, giving me motion sickness. If it is possible to get motion sickness reading a book - this one accomplishes it. The central connection is the circus, everything else revolves around it.
4. Watching the deft and somewhat draggy Mad Men. It is propelled mainly by edgy and contemplative dialogue, there is no "action" per se. And the story is about the personal life and business of ad men living in the 1960s. The star of the series is the time period which is rendered in minute detail. It also comments on sexism and racism quite well.
Mad Men is another example of satire done well - balancing emotion and satiric edge in a subtle witty manner, without ever sliding into over-kill.
Also various travel anxiety dreams.
2. Am behind on my television series reviewing. No time to go in depth like I want to on The Good Wife which was excellent in its depiction of racial politics. If you think the US isn't racist? Watch the Good Wife - it really shows the insidious institutional racism that continues to exist...and why.
( vague spoilers )
Once Upon a Time was fascinating. Finally some movement on the Storybrook front. ( really vague spoilers - just on the fairy tale )
3. Making headway on The Night Circus, which holds the distinction of being amongst the few Young Adult novels I've recently read that isn't stuck in first person pov. But it does jump around a lot, perhaps too much, giving me motion sickness. If it is possible to get motion sickness reading a book - this one accomplishes it. The central connection is the circus, everything else revolves around it.
4. Watching the deft and somewhat draggy Mad Men. It is propelled mainly by edgy and contemplative dialogue, there is no "action" per se. And the story is about the personal life and business of ad men living in the 1960s. The star of the series is the time period which is rendered in minute detail. It also comments on sexism and racism quite well.
Mad Men is another example of satire done well - balancing emotion and satiric edge in a subtle witty manner, without ever sliding into over-kill.