Talking Meme + Media Consumed
Feb. 9th, 2018 10:47 am1. ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
jackandahat asked me: Re: Parenting - what's the thing you wish someone had told you before?
How much I'd want to smack other people's children when they hurt mine. I would never do so, naturally, but I never realized before I was a parent how someone hurting my kids would hurt me so much more deeply than someone hurting me. I have had to seriously hold my tongue multiple times when in presence of the mean girls, and I will cop to cutting dead (in the Victorian sense of the word) at a social event a nasty little girl who was bullying Emma at the time. LOL
2. I haven't been posting reviews of Lucifer becausehavocthecat has been posting pretty much everything I think about the show. I'll read her episode reviews, nod along madly, and then forget I haven't posted about the show myself.
( spoilers for the last three episodes of Lucifer )
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The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I have never been super into Arthurian legend. Outside of swooning over Richard Gere as Lancelot when I was a teen, I've never been particularly interested, so I am surprised by how much I like this book.
It follows Merlin from childhood to young adulthood (25 tops, and probably younger than that); Arthur hasn't even been born when the book ends. I think maybe that's why I like it so much; it's not the familiar legend at all but on the periphery of the story I know already.
The supernatural is present, and Merlin wields it, but I also like how many of Merlin's "powers" aren't supernatural at all. The story reminded me a bit (in content only) of Renault's The King Must Die where Renault takes a well-known legendary figure and gives us his childhood only while stripping the supernatural from the myth.
Definitely interested in finishing this series.
View all my reviews
jackandahat asked me: Re: Parenting - what's the thing you wish someone had told you before?How much I'd want to smack other people's children when they hurt mine. I would never do so, naturally, but I never realized before I was a parent how someone hurting my kids would hurt me so much more deeply than someone hurting me. I have had to seriously hold my tongue multiple times when in presence of the mean girls, and I will cop to cutting dead (in the Victorian sense of the word) at a social event a nasty little girl who was bullying Emma at the time. LOL
2. I haven't been posting reviews of Lucifer because
havocthecat has been posting pretty much everything I think about the show. I'll read her episode reviews, nod along madly, and then forget I haven't posted about the show myself.( spoilers for the last three episodes of Lucifer )
3.
The Crystal Cave by Mary StewartMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
I have never been super into Arthurian legend. Outside of swooning over Richard Gere as Lancelot when I was a teen, I've never been particularly interested, so I am surprised by how much I like this book.
It follows Merlin from childhood to young adulthood (25 tops, and probably younger than that); Arthur hasn't even been born when the book ends. I think maybe that's why I like it so much; it's not the familiar legend at all but on the periphery of the story I know already.
The supernatural is present, and Merlin wields it, but I also like how many of Merlin's "powers" aren't supernatural at all. The story reminded me a bit (in content only) of Renault's The King Must Die where Renault takes a well-known legendary figure and gives us his childhood only while stripping the supernatural from the myth.
Definitely interested in finishing this series.
View all my reviews
