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pinksoniaFirst off, thanks for the podcast recs. I will be checking them out!
Next, I've been watching Playing Shakespeare which appears to be a television documentary from the 80s with lots of well respected actors and actresses. I'm finding it pretty interesting, but what I've really come away from the program with is a sense of awe at just how intelligent some of them seem (mostly Ian McKellen and Ben Kingsley). It is really rather refreshing to be impressed with someone out of character instead of kind of cringing. Now I want to see ALL THE PLAYS, which would be easier if my lot in life was not to have Macbeth playing near me all the time and rarely anything else -- I don't know what is up with that.
And then Book!Meme Day Two:
The book you want to read next
Well next up on the ipad is Loath Letters because I find the title intriguing -- really there is no other reason and I don't really know anything about the book.
In paper format I think I will attempt to finally finish Queens' Play which has been languishing half read on my shelf since I was in Harry Potter fandom the first time. No really. I picked it up because a certain fanfic writer about whom there was much kerfluffle had said at one point that her view on Draco was shaped by the main character of the series in which this is the second book (which kind of now makes me wonder why I didn't get the first book). Anyway, that fact doesn't really excite me anymore but the general idea of anti-heros in historical settings is still appealing. Really the only reason that the book has languished so long, is that the type face is the edition I have is teeny-tiny and kind of hurts my eyes.
Paper format two will be Running Through Corridors a non-fiction book which seeks to find something good about every-ish (they watch reconstructions when actual episodes are not available, but I believe some don't even have reconstructions) episode of Doctor Who from the 60s. It is not really a secret that, while Peter Davison is my favorite doctor, the First Doctor's Era is my favorite over all time period simply because I love the 'pure historicals'. What can I say? I much prefer travels in time to travels in space and it sort of makes me sad that they now attribute everything bad that has happened in human history to the interference of aliens -- like we can't screw things up on our own.
Next, I've been watching Playing Shakespeare which appears to be a television documentary from the 80s with lots of well respected actors and actresses. I'm finding it pretty interesting, but what I've really come away from the program with is a sense of awe at just how intelligent some of them seem (mostly Ian McKellen and Ben Kingsley). It is really rather refreshing to be impressed with someone out of character instead of kind of cringing. Now I want to see ALL THE PLAYS, which would be easier if my lot in life was not to have Macbeth playing near me all the time and rarely anything else -- I don't know what is up with that.
And then Book!Meme Day Two:
The book you want to read next
Well next up on the ipad is Loath Letters because I find the title intriguing -- really there is no other reason and I don't really know anything about the book.
In paper format I think I will attempt to finally finish Queens' Play which has been languishing half read on my shelf since I was in Harry Potter fandom the first time. No really. I picked it up because a certain fanfic writer about whom there was much kerfluffle had said at one point that her view on Draco was shaped by the main character of the series in which this is the second book (which kind of now makes me wonder why I didn't get the first book). Anyway, that fact doesn't really excite me anymore but the general idea of anti-heros in historical settings is still appealing. Really the only reason that the book has languished so long, is that the type face is the edition I have is teeny-tiny and kind of hurts my eyes.
Paper format two will be Running Through Corridors a non-fiction book which seeks to find something good about every-ish (they watch reconstructions when actual episodes are not available, but I believe some don't even have reconstructions) episode of Doctor Who from the 60s. It is not really a secret that, while Peter Davison is my favorite doctor, the First Doctor's Era is my favorite over all time period simply because I love the 'pure historicals'. What can I say? I much prefer travels in time to travels in space and it sort of makes me sad that they now attribute everything bad that has happened in human history to the interference of aliens -- like we can't screw things up on our own.
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Date: 2012-08-13 03:32 am (UTC)