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Dec. 11th, 2022 06:45 pm1. Finished watching Wednesday - which was uneven, some episodes were good, some weren't. The ones that focused too much on Morticia and Gomez were kind of silly and not as edgy. One of the best episodes featured "Fester". And the last three episodes worked quite well, as did for the most part the first three episodes.
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2. Slept horribly last night - due to too much caffeine. Was wiser about that today. Also, played havoc on my blood sugar levels yesterday - I went down to 68 for the first time, after going up close to 200. Not great. The 68 was due to a long walk to the grocery store, three to four hours after eating carbs and no lunch. Note to self - can't skip meals and do exercise.
3. Am reviewing a friends query letter and considering being a beta reader for her historical novel. One problem - I'm already reading far too much on my computer - so I may have to pass for the sake of my eye-sight. ( Read more... )
4. Finished Mathew Perry's memoir on audible - Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing this morning. I didn't buy it, I used a credit to grab it for free on audible. I have an audible subscription, where I listen to books for free, well for the most part.
Was it any good?
Eh, it's for the most part well-written, and he performs it well. (Being an actor - he'd kind of have to. Note - audible books read by actors or voice actors are by far the best.) But it is poorly edited and organized. Possibly among the worst edited books I've listened to. The editor should hang their head in shame - thank god, he doesn't go nuts thanking them. I felt like we were having a conversation. He jumps tracks, jumps back and forth in time, and repeats himself. He also puts his foot in his mouth a lot. A good line editor would have fixed that. But the publishing industry has gone to pot. You'd better off self-publishing at this point, all it appears to be good at is paying advances to rich people, and marketing/promoting stuff.
But, because it's on audible - the conversation bit worked well. I just wouldn't recommend reading it.
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Now listening to the audio book Born a Crime, a memoir by Trevor Noah - whom I like a lot better than Perry, and is not only a better writer but a better performer. His problems are a bit more - well ...I don't want to say real, just less self-inflicting. Also he has a great sense of humor, and being a professional comedian - is far more humorous.
Perry's humor often fell flat - I don't really share it, and much like Craig Bierko's and others of his group - it's a touch on the mean side. There's nothing mean about Noah and he is genuinely adorable in every respect. He is by far my favorite stand-up comic.
5. I've watched yet another episode of The Crown S5 - which goes into what happened with the Romaovs and the tension between Phillip and Queen Elizabeth - which is always present to some degree.
I'm struck by how trapped Elizabeth truly is - within the institution of the Crown. In this episode she informs Prince Phillip's latest companion (non-sexual, they are just friends - but she's a lovely young woman and the wife of his godson), that the Crown requires one to do things to keep up appearances, and to maintain the greater peace - by being silent and doing seemingly nothing.
The series from the start has shown a rather unbecoming light on royalty and in particular the institution of royalty. Showing how toxic it truly is, and in part, unnecessary. And again, as I asked above, I wonder what it says about us as a society - that we continue to feel the need to maintain it, worship it, and romanticize it?
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2. Slept horribly last night - due to too much caffeine. Was wiser about that today. Also, played havoc on my blood sugar levels yesterday - I went down to 68 for the first time, after going up close to 200. Not great. The 68 was due to a long walk to the grocery store, three to four hours after eating carbs and no lunch. Note to self - can't skip meals and do exercise.
3. Am reviewing a friends query letter and considering being a beta reader for her historical novel. One problem - I'm already reading far too much on my computer - so I may have to pass for the sake of my eye-sight. ( Read more... )
4. Finished Mathew Perry's memoir on audible - Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing this morning. I didn't buy it, I used a credit to grab it for free on audible. I have an audible subscription, where I listen to books for free, well for the most part.
Was it any good?
Eh, it's for the most part well-written, and he performs it well. (Being an actor - he'd kind of have to. Note - audible books read by actors or voice actors are by far the best.) But it is poorly edited and organized. Possibly among the worst edited books I've listened to. The editor should hang their head in shame - thank god, he doesn't go nuts thanking them. I felt like we were having a conversation. He jumps tracks, jumps back and forth in time, and repeats himself. He also puts his foot in his mouth a lot. A good line editor would have fixed that. But the publishing industry has gone to pot. You'd better off self-publishing at this point, all it appears to be good at is paying advances to rich people, and marketing/promoting stuff.
But, because it's on audible - the conversation bit worked well. I just wouldn't recommend reading it.
( Read more... )
Now listening to the audio book Born a Crime, a memoir by Trevor Noah - whom I like a lot better than Perry, and is not only a better writer but a better performer. His problems are a bit more - well ...I don't want to say real, just less self-inflicting. Also he has a great sense of humor, and being a professional comedian - is far more humorous.
Perry's humor often fell flat - I don't really share it, and much like Craig Bierko's and others of his group - it's a touch on the mean side. There's nothing mean about Noah and he is genuinely adorable in every respect. He is by far my favorite stand-up comic.
5. I've watched yet another episode of The Crown S5 - which goes into what happened with the Romaovs and the tension between Phillip and Queen Elizabeth - which is always present to some degree.
I'm struck by how trapped Elizabeth truly is - within the institution of the Crown. In this episode she informs Prince Phillip's latest companion (non-sexual, they are just friends - but she's a lovely young woman and the wife of his godson), that the Crown requires one to do things to keep up appearances, and to maintain the greater peace - by being silent and doing seemingly nothing.
The series from the start has shown a rather unbecoming light on royalty and in particular the institution of royalty. Showing how toxic it truly is, and in part, unnecessary. And again, as I asked above, I wonder what it says about us as a society - that we continue to feel the need to maintain it, worship it, and romanticize it?