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Not a good week for reading books, so padding with play readaloud and Austen adaptation, as one does.
The Memory of Souls, Jenn Lyons. Still entertaining -- everyone's one big dysfunctional half-elf (our elves are *different*) family! But do these books *really* have to switch POV every 5 pages?
Cymbeline, Shakespeare. My second time doing a Cymbeline read-aloud as one of the few people who know the plot. The play is not so much *good*, though it has its moments, as it is *delightfully tropey*, and it's fun watching people being hit with the tropes they didn't see coming.
Pride & Prejudice -- yes, the 2005 movie, which I hadn't seen since it was in theatres. I'd forgotten in exactly which ways it is ridiculous, so it succeeded in diverting me and distracting me from the RBG news. Whatever story it is trying to tell, that story is *not* Pride and Prejudice, which leads to some issues, like much of the actual plot feeling rushed. But it has some good points -- it has a more sympathetic and rounded Mrs. Bennet than the BBC TV adaptations.
The Memory of Souls, Jenn Lyons. Still entertaining -- everyone's one big dysfunctional half-elf (our elves are *different*) family! But do these books *really* have to switch POV every 5 pages?
Cymbeline, Shakespeare. My second time doing a Cymbeline read-aloud as one of the few people who know the plot. The play is not so much *good*, though it has its moments, as it is *delightfully tropey*, and it's fun watching people being hit with the tropes they didn't see coming.
Pride & Prejudice -- yes, the 2005 movie, which I hadn't seen since it was in theatres. I'd forgotten in exactly which ways it is ridiculous, so it succeeded in diverting me and distracting me from the RBG news. Whatever story it is trying to tell, that story is *not* Pride and Prejudice, which leads to some issues, like much of the actual plot feeling rushed. But it has some good points -- it has a more sympathetic and rounded Mrs. Bennet than the BBC TV adaptations.