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getting better day one
Oct. 8th, 2020 09:07 pm1. Adventures in self-medicating: ( steroids are made of magic but also apparently interfere with cortisol tests )
2. I had a truly excellent day today. I know that the steroids are just masking what's underneath; by afternoon, I was feeling very tired again. But I needed a day where I felt good and had fun and relaxed and chilled and I got that today. I feel rejuvenated.
3. We watched episode two of Lucifer; things do indeed make sense now, and I love it!! Review forthcoming. But I need y'all to spoil me about something: ( Linda ) Thank you!
4.
Dead Astronauts by Jeff VanderMeer
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This is set in the same universe as Borne, but it doesn't feature Borne or Rachel, so reading it because you want to know more about those characters will just disappoint.
It's not a linear narrative. Parts of it are really confusing. I suspect that there's a ton that I'm missing that I might put together on subsequent rereads (and after rereads of Borne). I don't like the few sections where he just repeats text over and over; it goes on for too long. Fewer pages of it would be okay.
But on the whole, I really like this book, and I really like the characters. It's like the worst thing Margaret Atwood ever dreamed up twisted into something even more horrible. LOL I've often wondered what she and Vandermeer think of each others' work as they are playing around with many of the same themes.
Many places here (and in Borne) remind me of the Southern Reach trilogy (the notion of contagion, disintegrating boundaries between human and animal and other, tunnels and burrows and lighthouses oh my).
I think the book is about love and hope even in the face of all the horror that we make as humans, even if the only hope we have is that the world isn't dependent on our survival--that even when we have annihilated ourselves that the moss will continue to grow on the rock and the foxes burrow. But even here in this novel of human atrocity, there's hope for us as well.
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5. Also would love some more comments on my post about the end of She-Ra. I've got a few questions I'm wondering about.
2. I had a truly excellent day today. I know that the steroids are just masking what's underneath; by afternoon, I was feeling very tired again. But I needed a day where I felt good and had fun and relaxed and chilled and I got that today. I feel rejuvenated.
3. We watched episode two of Lucifer; things do indeed make sense now, and I love it!! Review forthcoming. But I need y'all to spoil me about something: ( Linda ) Thank you!
4.
Dead Astronauts by Jeff VanderMeerMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
This is set in the same universe as Borne, but it doesn't feature Borne or Rachel, so reading it because you want to know more about those characters will just disappoint.
It's not a linear narrative. Parts of it are really confusing. I suspect that there's a ton that I'm missing that I might put together on subsequent rereads (and after rereads of Borne). I don't like the few sections where he just repeats text over and over; it goes on for too long. Fewer pages of it would be okay.
But on the whole, I really like this book, and I really like the characters. It's like the worst thing Margaret Atwood ever dreamed up twisted into something even more horrible. LOL I've often wondered what she and Vandermeer think of each others' work as they are playing around with many of the same themes.
Many places here (and in Borne) remind me of the Southern Reach trilogy (the notion of contagion, disintegrating boundaries between human and animal and other, tunnels and burrows and lighthouses oh my).
I think the book is about love and hope even in the face of all the horror that we make as humans, even if the only hope we have is that the world isn't dependent on our survival--that even when we have annihilated ourselves that the moss will continue to grow on the rock and the foxes burrow. But even here in this novel of human atrocity, there's hope for us as well.
View all my reviews
5. Also would love some more comments on my post about the end of She-Ra. I've got a few questions I'm wondering about.
