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Good Omens and book reviews...
Jun. 5th, 2019 10:45 pm1. Finished Good Omens -- which, well, everything with Crowley and Arizaphale is really good. (And I can't spell Arizaphale to save my life.) Everything with Adam, not bad and sort of touching really. Everything with Anathema...sigh. Gaiman, really? We didn't need your attempt at romance in the middle of this.
But I loved Tennant and Sheen's metaphysical discourse on the end of the world and the meaning of existence as Crowley and Aristaphale.
Best way to describe it? Waiting for Godot meets Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe by way of The Good Place with a Queen soundtrack. Also rather charming in spots, mainly because Gaiman and Prachett are rather charming.
Next up?
I don't know, I've a lot in my queue. The Americans, Victoria S3, New Amsterdam, Fleabag, Sabrina....
2. Reading Meme
What I Just Finished Reading
Where'd You Go Bernadette? by Maria Semple -- worth it for the narrative structure. The satire is a tad disappointing and obvious. But the narrative structure is fascinating.
Lucifer Vol 1 - 2015-2017 -- art was good. Focused on Lucifer and Gabriel investigating the murder of God and attempted murder of Lucifer. Turns out it's not who we suspect.
What I'm Reading Now
The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey
It's about a Parsi female lawyer, Pareveen Mistry, in Bombay, India during the early 1920s. And SmartBitches stated that if anything it was an anti-romance, in that none of the romances go well in it. Very heavy on women's rights in India during this time period, and how the culture affected that.
The lead character or detective, is a contracts attorney, who tried to study law in Bombay, but got ridiculed. It goes into how her male counterparts were threatened by her attendance and bullied her -- forcing her out of the school. It also discusses how marriages are arranged and why in this culture.
The writer is Indian and clearly knows her subject matter. (I live in an area heavily populated by Bengali and Pakistani and Parsi, and so I hear these people speak on a daily basis on my commute to and from work. We just had Eid d'Fir yesterday -- NY Public Schools had the day off. So, I think she captures the voices well. And her style is distinctive. I've read American writers try to write about India in romance novels or British writers write about -- and the voice is very British or American, this feels different. And that's important to get inside another point of view and culture.)
Up next?
Same problem as television shows...too many books in my queue. Whatever strikes my mood at the moment. Just bought a horror novel by Paul Tremblay, entitled Disappearance at Devil's Rock which was on sale on Amazon for $1.99 - Kindle.
None of his other books are. Will see if I like it before trying another.
Also, flirting with a fantasy epic I bought, and Where Crawdads Sing.
Library Board Co-worker keeps trying to get me to just check these out via library loan...honestly I think novelists must love me. Librarians not so much. Although I do support libraries -- a lot of people need them.
In comics world -- Lucifer Vol 2 - Father Lucifer (2015-2017). I'll stop with that one, I think.
But I loved Tennant and Sheen's metaphysical discourse on the end of the world and the meaning of existence as Crowley and Aristaphale.
Best way to describe it? Waiting for Godot meets Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe by way of The Good Place with a Queen soundtrack. Also rather charming in spots, mainly because Gaiman and Prachett are rather charming.
Next up?
I don't know, I've a lot in my queue. The Americans, Victoria S3, New Amsterdam, Fleabag, Sabrina....
2. Reading Meme
What I Just Finished Reading
Where'd You Go Bernadette? by Maria Semple -- worth it for the narrative structure. The satire is a tad disappointing and obvious. But the narrative structure is fascinating.
Lucifer Vol 1 - 2015-2017 -- art was good. Focused on Lucifer and Gabriel investigating the murder of God and attempted murder of Lucifer. Turns out it's not who we suspect.
What I'm Reading Now
The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey
It's about a Parsi female lawyer, Pareveen Mistry, in Bombay, India during the early 1920s. And SmartBitches stated that if anything it was an anti-romance, in that none of the romances go well in it. Very heavy on women's rights in India during this time period, and how the culture affected that.
The lead character or detective, is a contracts attorney, who tried to study law in Bombay, but got ridiculed. It goes into how her male counterparts were threatened by her attendance and bullied her -- forcing her out of the school. It also discusses how marriages are arranged and why in this culture.
The writer is Indian and clearly knows her subject matter. (I live in an area heavily populated by Bengali and Pakistani and Parsi, and so I hear these people speak on a daily basis on my commute to and from work. We just had Eid d'Fir yesterday -- NY Public Schools had the day off. So, I think she captures the voices well. And her style is distinctive. I've read American writers try to write about India in romance novels or British writers write about -- and the voice is very British or American, this feels different. And that's important to get inside another point of view and culture.)
Up next?
Same problem as television shows...too many books in my queue. Whatever strikes my mood at the moment. Just bought a horror novel by Paul Tremblay, entitled Disappearance at Devil's Rock which was on sale on Amazon for $1.99 - Kindle.
None of his other books are. Will see if I like it before trying another.
Also, flirting with a fantasy epic I bought, and Where Crawdads Sing.
Library Board Co-worker keeps trying to get me to just check these out via library loan...honestly I think novelists must love me. Librarians not so much. Although I do support libraries -- a lot of people need them.
In comics world -- Lucifer Vol 2 - Father Lucifer (2015-2017). I'll stop with that one, I think.