Rules:
Breana: This week, I wanted to mention another of my favorite Wednesday Campanella songs. This one is called Yeti.
What are you listening to this week?
Monday, July 10, 2023
Friday, July 7, 2023
The Friday 56 (237) & Book Beginnings: The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett
The Friday 56 is a weekly meme hosted by Freda's Voice where every Friday you pick a book and turn to page 56 or 56%, and select a sentence or a few, as long as it's not a spoiler. For the full rules, visit the the page HERE
Book Beginnings is a weekly meme hosted by Rose City Reader that asks you to share the first sentence (or so) of the book you're reading.
Imagine, if you will . . . a flat world sitting on the backs of four elephants who hurtle through space balanced on a giant turtle. In truth, the Discworld is not so different from our own. Yet, at the same time, very different . . . but not so much.
In this, the maiden voyage through Terry Pratchett's divinely and recognizably twisted alternate dimension, the well-meaning but remarkably inept wizard Rincewind encounters something hitherto unknown in the Discworld: a tourist! Twoflower has arrived, Luggage by his side, to take in the sights and, unfortunately, has cast his lot with a most inappropriate tour guide—a decision that could result in Twoflower's becoming not only Discworld's first visitor from elsewhere . . . but quite possibly, portentously, its very last. And, of course, he's brought Luggage along, which has a mind of its own. And teeth.
Beginning: "In a distant and secondhand set of dimensions, in an astral plane that was never meant to fly, the curling star-mists waver and part... See... Great A'Tuin the turtle comes, swimming slowly through the interstellar gulf, hydrogen frost on his ponderous limbs, his huge ancient shell pocked with meteor craters."
56: "The Luggage backed off slowly."
Comments: I have finally gone back and read the beginning of the Discworld series. This book was delightful and very funny. What are you reading this week?
Wednesday, July 5, 2023
Quarterly Recap: April-June
- The Cult of We: We Work, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion by Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrell
- The Book of Gems by Fran Wild
- Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo
- The Border Keeper by Kerstin Hall
- Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
- Witches of Lychford by Paul Cornell
- The Thorns Remain by J.J.A. Harwood
- Breakup From Hell by Anna Davila Cardinal
- A Fire Endless by Rebecca Ross
**Note: Weekly memes (like Music Monday and The Friday 56 + Book Beginnings, can be searched with their labels: Music Monday, The Friday 56 & Book Beginnings)**
- Short Stories I Read in May
- Upcoming Music I'm Waiting For
- Short Stories I Read In April
- So I Played Ooblets
- Short Stories I Read In March
- So...I Played Aggro Crab's Going Under
- I Listened to So Much (For) Stardust by Fall Out Boy
- Quarterly Recap: January-March
In July, there’s a new book by Silvia Moreno-Garcia coming out, plus I’ve finally gone back and read the beginning of the Discworld series.
As far as games, I'm slowly working my way through the Subnautica games. But, mostly, I’m knee-deep in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. This game is massive, and I feel like I haven’t even scratched the surface of the story or the areas available to explore yet. But, I’m having so much fun.
Monday, July 3, 2023
Music Monday (246): Tennis & Blanco Brown
Rules:
Breana: The last time I did a Music Monday post, I mentioned that I was listening to an indie pop playlist on Spotify. There was a lot of great music, and another one of my favorites was Let's Make a Mistake Tonight by Tennis.
Andrea: Hi all! This week, I'm listening to I'll Never by Blanco Brown. Have an amazing week and 4th of July!
What are you listening to this week?
Thursday, June 29, 2023
Short Stories I Read In May
It’s the twenty-ninth of June. So it’s time to talk about the short stories, miscellaneous posts, and podcast episodes I read or listened to in May.
All These Ghosts Are Playing to Win by Lindsey Godfrey Eccles (Uncanny Magazine; Issue Fifty-Two)
I only got around to reading two stories from Uncanny Magazine in May, and the first was All Theses Ghosts Are Playing to Win by Lindsey Godfrey Eccles. This story, at its base, is about grief and regret and forgetting. And it does those things very well. It’s told from the perspective of Theo, a ghost, who is in a casino where memories are the currency. This was an interesting approach to this kind of story: by linking high-stake bets with the function of a sort of limbo where you go up (as a big winner) or to the “DARK.” Supposedly, but is everything really that simple? You’d have to read to find out. There was also ample time devoted to Theo’s reminiscing, but I liked those moments just as much as the other aspects, themes, and overall conclusion. So while the general tone had an air of melancholy, All These Ghosts Are Playing to Win was haunting but in a good way. And I enjoyed reading it.
A Lovers’ Tide in Which We Inevitably Break Each Other; Told in Inverse by K.S. Walker (Uncanny Magazine; Issue Ffty-Two)
The second one was this very short piece called A Lovers’ Tide in Which We Inevitably Break Each Other; Told in Inverse. I read this one for the writing, which was evocative and instantly drew me in with descriptions of a lonely night at a shore combined with a slight feeling of the fantastic and uncanny. And I liked it exactly for those reasons. All-in-all, this was another good one.
From around the web…
- Print Run Podcast Episode 162: Turning Over the Same Leaf
- Place and Tome: On Two Kinds of Unforgettable Reading Experiences [Molly Templeton; Tor.com; May 25, 2023]
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