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smilebackwardsThe Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin. In near-future Portland a man discovers that his dreams can change reality and his psychiatrist takes the opportunity to exploit that. Under the guise of attempting to change things for the better, things actually take drastic turns for the worse. I enjoyed seeing precisely how things went differently than Haber wanted due to lack of specificity and the fact that you can't really control dreams or humanity.
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay. Three girls and a governess mysteriously disappear in 1900s Australia while on a picnic. I thought this was fine, but a classic idk. It was a trip to go back and read the preface that explained what the author considered to have happened. Went into a time warp/other dimension?? There are some supernatural oddity type elements to the book but I think the editors were right to cut that chapter and leave it an open mystery.
In TV, I finished:
My Happy Marriage (season 2): Enjoyed it.
Etoile: New York and Paris ballets swap dancers/choreographers. Loved the dance sequences and Cheyenne and Tobais and Gabin. Would watch a season 2 but why is it considered a big season-end conflict that Nicholas is back as artistic director? He wants to retire and Cheyenne wants the job so let him retire and her have the job?
Andor (season 2): Okay, what can I say about Andor!! It was good. Maybe the fact that it was good is what's making me have so many nitpicky feelings about some things. The last arc has only been out like 2 days so I hate the last scene so bad. I'm sorry but Bix leaving the Rebellion to have Cassian's baby without telling him and so he'll stay is such a wtf choice by the writers. I also watched Rogue One right after and I honestly feel like Andor jars it in some weird ways. Like the end of Andor makes such a big deal out of Luthen died to get the knowledge that the Death Star is being built out but then, immediately after, in the beginning of Rogue One, Cassian gets the same information from his informant on Kafrene and Bodhi. I mean, yes, it's corroborating when people were like 'why should we believe this' but also why did they not believe it? What part of knowing that there was a Death Star was going to lead them into a trap? And Cassian being so antagonistic about Jyn not wanting to help the Rebellion when in Andor he is constantly and very recently like 'this is bullshit, I'm out' is ?? Even throwaway lines like 'this is a first for me' when they're in the prison cell on Jedha I was like 'no it's not?? you were in Narinka 5??' I could go on but I want to say good things! K2, always a star! Loved Mon Monthma! Drunk at her tradwife daughter's wedding! Senate speech! Becoming a fugitive without telling her husband lmao. Cassian extracting her from the Senate was amazing. Also I loved the Luthen and Kleya flashbacks and Kleya's one-woman hospital mission. Although I was yelling at her after like 'why won't you leave the safe house? if you don't want to go to Yavin just have Cassian take you somewhere else but you need to leave girl!' Anyway, I thought it was generally good and the way all the Imperials got their endings was cathartic. Collaboration will not save or reward you. Your own tools will be taken from you and turned against you. It's so over.
Also I got to go to a theater production of Fiddler on the Roof and it was soo good! Clever and funny and heartbreaking. I knew very little of what it was about going in except that it was considered a great musical and I was holding back tears the whole second act.
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay. Three girls and a governess mysteriously disappear in 1900s Australia while on a picnic. I thought this was fine, but a classic idk. It was a trip to go back and read the preface that explained what the author considered to have happened. Went into a time warp/other dimension?? There are some supernatural oddity type elements to the book but I think the editors were right to cut that chapter and leave it an open mystery.
In TV, I finished:
My Happy Marriage (season 2): Enjoyed it.
Etoile: New York and Paris ballets swap dancers/choreographers. Loved the dance sequences and Cheyenne and Tobais and Gabin. Would watch a season 2 but why is it considered a big season-end conflict that Nicholas is back as artistic director? He wants to retire and Cheyenne wants the job so let him retire and her have the job?
Andor (season 2): Okay, what can I say about Andor!! It was good. Maybe the fact that it was good is what's making me have so many nitpicky feelings about some things. The last arc has only been out like 2 days so I hate the last scene so bad. I'm sorry but Bix leaving the Rebellion to have Cassian's baby without telling him and so he'll stay is such a wtf choice by the writers. I also watched Rogue One right after and I honestly feel like Andor jars it in some weird ways. Like the end of Andor makes such a big deal out of Luthen died to get the knowledge that the Death Star is being built out but then, immediately after, in the beginning of Rogue One, Cassian gets the same information from his informant on Kafrene and Bodhi. I mean, yes, it's corroborating when people were like 'why should we believe this' but also why did they not believe it? What part of knowing that there was a Death Star was going to lead them into a trap? And Cassian being so antagonistic about Jyn not wanting to help the Rebellion when in Andor he is constantly and very recently like 'this is bullshit, I'm out' is ?? Even throwaway lines like 'this is a first for me' when they're in the prison cell on Jedha I was like 'no it's not?? you were in Narinka 5??' I could go on but I want to say good things! K2, always a star! Loved Mon Monthma! Drunk at her tradwife daughter's wedding! Senate speech! Becoming a fugitive without telling her husband lmao. Cassian extracting her from the Senate was amazing. Also I loved the Luthen and Kleya flashbacks and Kleya's one-woman hospital mission. Although I was yelling at her after like 'why won't you leave the safe house? if you don't want to go to Yavin just have Cassian take you somewhere else but you need to leave girl!' Anyway, I thought it was generally good and the way all the Imperials got their endings was cathartic. Collaboration will not save or reward you. Your own tools will be taken from you and turned against you. It's so over.
Also I got to go to a theater production of Fiddler on the Roof and it was soo good! Clever and funny and heartbreaking. I knew very little of what it was about going in except that it was considered a great musical and I was holding back tears the whole second act.
