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Very Far Away from Anywhere Else by Ursula K. Le Guin
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
This is a very slender novella, short story really, and far from what I have come to expect from Le Guin: not a bit of science fiction, set in the seventies in which it was written, high school protagonists, coming of age story. It has much in common with the S. E. Hinton That Was Then, This Is Now and also with The Graduate that I recently reread (however, unlike those it has a happy ending).
The story is told from the first person POV of the 17 year old male narrator. Really sharp insights into what it's like to be a smart teen who feels at odds with family and all the other kids around you and who finally finds a kindred spirit. Really nice commentary on the intersections of music and math, psychology and medicine, and other disciplines.
Highly recommended.
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Miss Lonelyhearts / The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
I read this my first semester of grad school; I remember enjoying it and thinking it was funny, and I am giving past me the side eye.
Miss Lonelyhearts is just mean. The Day of the Locust is the better of the two, I think, but it's also meanspirited. Both of them feature way too much rumination on rape.
Honestly they read like the short stories written by that one guy in the workshop who thinks he's so edgy--all his stories are violent and all the women are whores and everyone is grotesque and speaks in non sequiturs and he thinks it's all very profound you see.
Bleck.
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2. I got a Barenaked Ladies CD frommisbegotten! Now we have tunes for the trip to Emma's MRI today. This is the last stop on her magical mystery medical tour and then we get the results on Wednesday.
3. I was just remarking tokass that cartoons today are such a far cry from the cartoons I had to watch as a kid. I mean, I loved the Smurfs, but that show never gut punched me in the feels or dazzled me with its narrative construction, you know? LOL
Case in point: the Trollhunters franchise just came out with a movie set immediately following its latest series, and it is so damn good. I cried like five times, and then the ending! OMG, the ending! I don't want to spoil it, but let's just say that the end does one of my absolute favorite tropey things and does it super well. Also, there's canon mpreg. So hurray!
4. It's August. Boo. Back to school for Fi and work for me and off to Atlanta for Ems. Slow down, time. Just a little bit longer, please. :)
Very Far Away from Anywhere Else by Ursula K. Le GuinMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
This is a very slender novella, short story really, and far from what I have come to expect from Le Guin: not a bit of science fiction, set in the seventies in which it was written, high school protagonists, coming of age story. It has much in common with the S. E. Hinton That Was Then, This Is Now and also with The Graduate that I recently reread (however, unlike those it has a happy ending).
The story is told from the first person POV of the 17 year old male narrator. Really sharp insights into what it's like to be a smart teen who feels at odds with family and all the other kids around you and who finally finds a kindred spirit. Really nice commentary on the intersections of music and math, psychology and medicine, and other disciplines.
Highly recommended.
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Miss Lonelyhearts / The Day of the Locust by Nathanael WestMy rating: 2 of 5 stars
I read this my first semester of grad school; I remember enjoying it and thinking it was funny, and I am giving past me the side eye.
Miss Lonelyhearts is just mean. The Day of the Locust is the better of the two, I think, but it's also meanspirited. Both of them feature way too much rumination on rape.
Honestly they read like the short stories written by that one guy in the workshop who thinks he's so edgy--all his stories are violent and all the women are whores and everyone is grotesque and speaks in non sequiturs and he thinks it's all very profound you see.
Bleck.
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2. I got a Barenaked Ladies CD from
misbegotten! Now we have tunes for the trip to Emma's MRI today. This is the last stop on her magical mystery medical tour and then we get the results on Wednesday.3. I was just remarking to
kass that cartoons today are such a far cry from the cartoons I had to watch as a kid. I mean, I loved the Smurfs, but that show never gut punched me in the feels or dazzled me with its narrative construction, you know? LOLCase in point: the Trollhunters franchise just came out with a movie set immediately following its latest series, and it is so damn good. I cried like five times, and then the ending! OMG, the ending! I don't want to spoil it, but let's just say that the end does one of my absolute favorite tropey things and does it super well. Also, there's canon mpreg. So hurray!
4. It's August. Boo. Back to school for Fi and work for me and off to Atlanta for Ems. Slow down, time. Just a little bit longer, please. :)
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Date: 2021-08-03 10:24 am (UTC)Thanks for the crossed fingers. One more day to wait for at least some kind of verdict.