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lotesseRewatched Hannibal s1-2 with A, had a great time -- and now we've stalled out partway through s3, almost exactly where I for no particular reason left off watching when s3 first aired. The narrative urgency just ... drops? and it's perfectly nice, but my attention wanders.
Now we're back in Farscape, in the peak of the cloned John era. I continue to be fascinated by the narrative choice to double the protag and just roll with it. They can do two different types of John storylines, without having to juggle continuity. And it lets them hook up John and Aeryn while still maintaining fantastic levels of narrative tension.
Read the first half of Diane Duane's The Book of Night With Moon, a 90s fantasy novel about cat wizards maintaining interdimensional portals in Grand Central Station. I like it better when they're being wizards than when they're being cats. I think bc I live very near to my cats, so fanciful bits about what they get up to when the people are away aren't as interesting to me as stories about their choices in interspecies families. But the prose is lovely, and the magic worldbuilding is pretty and intricate. (I suspect I'd also get good hometown vibes from the setting if my city was New York, not Chicago.)
Now we're back in Farscape, in the peak of the cloned John era. I continue to be fascinated by the narrative choice to double the protag and just roll with it. They can do two different types of John storylines, without having to juggle continuity. And it lets them hook up John and Aeryn while still maintaining fantastic levels of narrative tension.
Read the first half of Diane Duane's The Book of Night With Moon, a 90s fantasy novel about cat wizards maintaining interdimensional portals in Grand Central Station. I like it better when they're being wizards than when they're being cats. I think bc I live very near to my cats, so fanciful bits about what they get up to when the people are away aren't as interesting to me as stories about their choices in interspecies families. But the prose is lovely, and the magic worldbuilding is pretty and intricate. (I suspect I'd also get good hometown vibes from the setting if my city was New York, not Chicago.)
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Date: 2020-06-29 03:02 am (UTC)I have a hard time imagining that you haven't if you're reading a cat wizard book, but have you read Diane Duane's other wizard books? they are ~frequently~ on major sale through her website in ebook form, in the "new millennium" editions which clean up the timeline and fix some issues (especially with the book with the autistic wizard). if the wizardy parts are what you love, and you haven't read the others, you probably should.
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Date: 2020-06-29 05:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-06-30 03:06 am (UTC)I do highly recommend the Young Wizards series - i haven't actually read the last one or two yet, but i LOVED the first three as a preteen, and loved them and some of the later ones just as much as a teen. I think the last time i read through the ones i have was 2-3 years ago, and I loved them just as much then.
also? there are at least 2 cat wizard books, maybe 3 or 4. :)
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Date: 2020-06-29 07:17 pm (UTC)no subject
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