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Nov. 9th, 2022 05:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vaznettiSo what have I been reading? Other than the news, that is.
I am currently reading some early Tony Hillerman books which we have lying around the house -- I have finished Listening Woman, The Blessing Way and People of Darkness. Right now I'm reading Dance Hall of the Dead, but I've reached the point where I was getting really worried about the characters so I put it down last night and picked up The Dark Wind instead. It's probably been 30 years since I read anything by Hillerman, and I'm enjoying them. He's so good at evoking a very different place and culture, explaining and describing for an audience foreign to that place and culture. We still have four or five more of them on the shelf so I think I'll keep going.
I also watched the first episode of Dark Winds, which made some confusing changes, especially around Chee's immediate backstory -- and I was a little confused because the opener said it was 1971 but it didn't feel like 1971 in the show itself. Clearly the people behind it made some reasonable changes too, though -- especially filling in some details and providing a better range of female characters -- and I will at least give the other episodes a try whenever I get around to subscribing to AMC+ or whatever service it is.
At the same time as I read The Blessing Way I was also reading Provenance, by Ann Leckie, which was a very interesting contrast during the time that I thought Provenance would be a murder mystery -- which it sort of is and sort of isn't, because the murder isn't a mystery. I did like it, and better than I remember liking the last of the Ancillary novels -- because I didn't come into it with a lot of expectations about what kind of story it was.
And also: hello everyone! I still need to do a "real life" update and catch up on a bunch of comments etc.
I am currently reading some early Tony Hillerman books which we have lying around the house -- I have finished Listening Woman, The Blessing Way and People of Darkness. Right now I'm reading Dance Hall of the Dead, but I've reached the point where I was getting really worried about the characters so I put it down last night and picked up The Dark Wind instead. It's probably been 30 years since I read anything by Hillerman, and I'm enjoying them. He's so good at evoking a very different place and culture, explaining and describing for an audience foreign to that place and culture. We still have four or five more of them on the shelf so I think I'll keep going.
I also watched the first episode of Dark Winds, which made some confusing changes, especially around Chee's immediate backstory -- and I was a little confused because the opener said it was 1971 but it didn't feel like 1971 in the show itself. Clearly the people behind it made some reasonable changes too, though -- especially filling in some details and providing a better range of female characters -- and I will at least give the other episodes a try whenever I get around to subscribing to AMC+ or whatever service it is.
At the same time as I read The Blessing Way I was also reading Provenance, by Ann Leckie, which was a very interesting contrast during the time that I thought Provenance would be a murder mystery -- which it sort of is and sort of isn't, because the murder isn't a mystery. I did like it, and better than I remember liking the last of the Ancillary novels -- because I didn't come into it with a lot of expectations about what kind of story it was.
And also: hello everyone! I still need to do a "real life" update and catch up on a bunch of comments etc.
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Date: 2022-11-10 01:54 am (UTC)Chee's backstory is very different, yes. I should reread the Hillerman books, or read some of the ones I haven't - it's been a while.
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Date: 2022-11-10 12:49 pm (UTC)And I have also reread the Ancillary trilogy and loved it.
And yes, Dance Hall of the Dead is VERY SCARY. Probably one of the 2 scariest.