FF: Intense Week
It’s been insane this week. This weekend I’m definitely making time to read.
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Our Monstress With Monstress
For those of you just discovering this feature, the Friday Fragments lists what I’ve read over the past week. Most of the time I don’t include details of either short fiction (unless part of a book-length collection) or magazines.
The Fragments are not meant to be a recommendation list. If you’re interested in a not-at-all-inclusive recommendation list, you can look on my website under Neat Stuff.
Once again, this is not a book review column. It’s just a list with, maybe, a bit of description or a few opinions tossed in.
Recently Completed:
Several short books on desert environments, insects, and plants. Next year I want to try growing tepary beans in our hot, dry yard. They sound like a perfect fit.
In Progress:
Monstress: The Blood by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda. Volume Two of the graphic novel. I had to go back and re-read the end of Volume One to remember the context. Lovely art and, so far, a compelling story. I’m going slowly with it because it’s too bloody for before bed!
The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale. Audiobook. I always thought this was a dark tale, and Ms. Hale’s version isn’t making it any prettier!
Also:
Jim and I watched a couple of documentaries. One was the final volume of the Beatle’s Anthology series (disks seven and eight), which deal with the band’s final years and dissolution. The other is the two disk Martin Scorsese the Living in the Material World biography of George Harrison.
