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* I finally got time to start S3 of The Bear! ... and I am dropping it for now. The first episode was a masterclass in giving your audience tension and anxiety. I loved it. Then the episodes after it were mostly that but worse. There is a thing in writing called the tension and release cycle. Trying to give your audience only one flavor and it gets boring.
Once the show is over I may go back and finish it. I loved S1 and S2. The buzz made me want to watch them for ages. I've heard no S3 buzz, so I am not confident that if I kept going there'd be payoff.
* My current audiobook is How To Solve Your Own Murder. I am really digging it so far. I hope the ending isn't dumb, but the book was well received and reviewed so hopefully not. It's just got one of those premises that can often gets dumb conclusions.
* I've finished Wolfsong by T. J Klune. I really liked it! The writing style is amazing. I actually got a bit worried early on because I've heard a lot of places that people liked the book at first but hated where it went, and I really, really loved the first few chapters because of how solid the prose is. Overall, I enjoyed the book and will probably pick up Ravensong and maybe the rest of the series (hopefully when on sale, I've spent a lot on media recently and need to slow my roll). I think I read it a bit overly critically because of things I'd heard about books by that author. I think a lot of people expect that book to be something other than what it is.
* Up next for text-based-book is Dear Mothman, the one YA book on my TBR list. I tend to dislike YA, but a lot of books with trans rep are in that space so I am giving this one a try. I looked at a lot of lists of queer books and trans books that popped up at the start of June and this one seemed possibly interesting.
Once the show is over I may go back and finish it. I loved S1 and S2. The buzz made me want to watch them for ages. I've heard no S3 buzz, so I am not confident that if I kept going there'd be payoff.
* My current audiobook is How To Solve Your Own Murder. I am really digging it so far. I hope the ending isn't dumb, but the book was well received and reviewed so hopefully not. It's just got one of those premises that can often gets dumb conclusions.
* I've finished Wolfsong by T. J Klune. I really liked it! The writing style is amazing. I actually got a bit worried early on because I've heard a lot of places that people liked the book at first but hated where it went, and I really, really loved the first few chapters because of how solid the prose is. Overall, I enjoyed the book and will probably pick up Ravensong and maybe the rest of the series (hopefully when on sale, I've spent a lot on media recently and need to slow my roll). I think I read it a bit overly critically because of things I'd heard about books by that author. I think a lot of people expect that book to be something other than what it is.
* Up next for text-based-book is Dear Mothman, the one YA book on my TBR list. I tend to dislike YA, but a lot of books with trans rep are in that space so I am giving this one a try. I looked at a lot of lists of queer books and trans books that popped up at the start of June and this one seemed possibly interesting.
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Date: 2024-07-06 04:59 am (UTC)From:Wolfsong is on my TBR list!
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