Some Media Stuff
Aug. 11th, 2012 08:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pinksoniaFirst off, I'm going to say hi to the latest group of people I've picked up in a friending meme. Welcome, and I hope I don't disappoint you too badly as a friend.
Next, Anyone have any good recommendations for podcasts? I prefer listening to the spoken word rather than to music at work (I have a tendency to have to sing along dramatically to any music that plays, so I get a lot of people laughing at me singing silently with exaggerated facial expressions if I listen to music at work.) Right now I'm really loving Popstuff from HowStuffWorks since it hits my love of anthropological studies of western subcultures (though not so in depth as I would usually like). I'm also a huge fan of The Savage Lovecast (and quote it all the time, which may be weird) and Stuff You Missed in History Class, also from HowStuffWorks, if that helps narrow down the kind of thing I like. I am particularly looking for something to take the place of The Broadway Bullet which I loved but died after the show runner moved back to Montana (where it is slightly more difficult to report on the happenings of New York theater.
Finally, I am going to do the book!meme from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bookishgeek but as a thirty(one)-day meme instead of a oneshot deal -- because I like books and I feel like it.
So.....
A book you are reading right now
1. On the ipad: To Command and Collar (Shadowland Masters #6) - I'm not going to lie, though I may deny it later, I enjoy some romance novel guilty pleasure reading. In some ways it comes from the steady diet of fic I've enjoyed since the age of 14 (Hi there X-Files fandom).
My actual Romance reading didn't really start until I became a field archaeologist. We stayed in so many little tiny towns, for short periods of time, so that Walmart became my only source of new books. I randomly picked up one of the collections of romance novellas set at Christmas time -- which brought me to the realization that I like being emotionally manipulated about Christmas.
I've expanded so that my romance tastes now include things set in the Regency/Victorian Era (to go along with my major historical interest -- historical accuracy a plus) and modern female submission BDSM stories, of which this book is one.
2. The Egyptologist: I picked this up from bookins.com forever ago. It is part of my attempt to actually read through all those books I have hanging around that I've never gotten around to reading. This project has been on going for, oh about, three years now, but seriously ramped up during my latest monitoring project where I would read while the guys were actually installing the sewer pipe since I only had to watch the part where they dug the hole.
I'm about 50 pages from the end of the book, but it took a turn for the weird (since the title character seems to have developed delirium as a side effect of gangreen) and I am kind of dreading actually reading the rest. Also, my presence on the monitoring project has ended.
3. Ireland:A Novel: I have a strange love for books with either the subtitle "a novel" or the subtitle "a memoir". I don't know. This book is my at home bed time reading book and as such is progressing rather slowly. Another one both from bookins and from the to-be read shelf project.
4. Game of Thrones: Yeah, I joined the band wagon. I need to know what the pervasive fandoms are all about, and since I don't get HBO (or any channels at all) that involves listening to this as a book-on-tape at work. I'm still in part one and so far my thoughts seem to be along the lines of liking the characters everyone seems to hate and hating the characters everyone else seems to love -- maybe I just haven't gotten to all of their actual parts yet. Or I am being my usual persnickety self.
5. The Poisonwood Bible: This one is my at home book-on-tape for purposes of knitting when I don't feel like watching tv or a movie. I can't just sit and knit, there has to be something going on in the background. I also nearly done this story but have been in a bit of a knitting slump for the last couple of months.
Next, Anyone have any good recommendations for podcasts? I prefer listening to the spoken word rather than to music at work (I have a tendency to have to sing along dramatically to any music that plays, so I get a lot of people laughing at me singing silently with exaggerated facial expressions if I listen to music at work.) Right now I'm really loving Popstuff from HowStuffWorks since it hits my love of anthropological studies of western subcultures (though not so in depth as I would usually like). I'm also a huge fan of The Savage Lovecast (and quote it all the time, which may be weird) and Stuff You Missed in History Class, also from HowStuffWorks, if that helps narrow down the kind of thing I like. I am particularly looking for something to take the place of The Broadway Bullet which I loved but died after the show runner moved back to Montana (where it is slightly more difficult to report on the happenings of New York theater.
Finally, I am going to do the book!meme from
bookishgeek but as a thirty(one)-day meme instead of a oneshot deal -- because I like books and I feel like it. So.....
A book you are reading right now
1. On the ipad: To Command and Collar (Shadowland Masters #6) - I'm not going to lie, though I may deny it later, I enjoy some romance novel guilty pleasure reading. In some ways it comes from the steady diet of fic I've enjoyed since the age of 14 (Hi there X-Files fandom).
My actual Romance reading didn't really start until I became a field archaeologist. We stayed in so many little tiny towns, for short periods of time, so that Walmart became my only source of new books. I randomly picked up one of the collections of romance novellas set at Christmas time -- which brought me to the realization that I like being emotionally manipulated about Christmas.
I've expanded so that my romance tastes now include things set in the Regency/Victorian Era (to go along with my major historical interest -- historical accuracy a plus) and modern female submission BDSM stories, of which this book is one.
2. The Egyptologist: I picked this up from bookins.com forever ago. It is part of my attempt to actually read through all those books I have hanging around that I've never gotten around to reading. This project has been on going for, oh about, three years now, but seriously ramped up during my latest monitoring project where I would read while the guys were actually installing the sewer pipe since I only had to watch the part where they dug the hole.
I'm about 50 pages from the end of the book, but it took a turn for the weird (since the title character seems to have developed delirium as a side effect of gangreen) and I am kind of dreading actually reading the rest. Also, my presence on the monitoring project has ended.
3. Ireland:A Novel: I have a strange love for books with either the subtitle "a novel" or the subtitle "a memoir". I don't know. This book is my at home bed time reading book and as such is progressing rather slowly. Another one both from bookins and from the to-be read shelf project.
4. Game of Thrones: Yeah, I joined the band wagon. I need to know what the pervasive fandoms are all about, and since I don't get HBO (or any channels at all) that involves listening to this as a book-on-tape at work. I'm still in part one and so far my thoughts seem to be along the lines of liking the characters everyone seems to hate and hating the characters everyone else seems to love -- maybe I just haven't gotten to all of their actual parts yet. Or I am being my usual persnickety self.
5. The Poisonwood Bible: This one is my at home book-on-tape for purposes of knitting when I don't feel like watching tv or a movie. I can't just sit and knit, there has to be something going on in the background. I also nearly done this story but have been in a bit of a knitting slump for the last couple of months.