So, yesterday I managed to post one of my private post-in-progresses out loud and aside from that causing me to face-palm in the morning when I awoke, startled, to magic replies on my supposedly-invisible post, it made me realise that nevertheless it was so
very much better to post and have nice comments on things I wanted to talk about than to not post all the time, so here I am again!
Although also at the same time that possibly I should have put the internet down for most of this week, but alas, one of the things about being more ill than usual is a lose of gauging exactly how ill that is and when I should shut up and lie down.
So, I should just say that re.
A Piece of Cake, it was not based on memoirs, but on a novel (that was, however, supposed to be pretty authentic, and the series itself felt on a par in that regard with things like
Danger UXB and
Wish Me Luck, and I
would have looked it up enough to say properly that it was Richard Hope who kept scene-stealing for me before I eventually posted it in two years or whenever. (But thank you
sovay! ♥)
And, lurking in my actual secret post in progress tag is a complete post on my reading, which is A Post but also happily was not written by me this week (in which I have mainly been even more stupid than usual; whenever I got on the internet, which I should know better by now, although on the plus side, I did do that gifset, and I have achieved progress in my graphics program and headaches from both.)
Continuing my 2017-to date catch up of (some) of my reading.
At this point, I'm hitting the end of 2020, where I decided to have one last re-read of Louise Cooper's Indigo Saga and get rid of the books. If anyone's been paying attention to my Yuletide requests in the last few years, you'll realise this did not go according to plan. I really enjoyed and appreciated them all over again instead. The previous re-read had been while being ill and I think hadn't helped. Some of them are still a bit overly horror-y for me & there are a couple of inevitable problematic things, but actually very few overall and the whole arc across the series resonated so much more with me now than before.
It's a quest fantasy retelling of Pandora's Box, set in a geomagnetically reversed version of our world (so turn the map at the front upside down and have fun.) Anghara Kaligsdaughter, Princess of the Summer Isles, goes to the forbidden Tower of Regrets, unleashing 7 demons, which slaughter her family and the royal court. She is cursed to walk the world unaging until she has destroyed each of the demons. So each book features a different demon in a different place with different characters. It's much more metaphorical than it seems, and I do enjoy the changing locations. I'm particularly fond of
Infanta for the setting,
Nocturne, for the Brabazon players and the vampire-demon plot, and
Troika, for the vast, snowy geomagnetically-reversed Australia.
Mainly, though, what I love is Grimya, and Grimya and Indigo. Indigo meets an outcast mutant wolf who can talk to humans (out loud if she must, but mostly telepathically), called Grimya. Grimya volunteers to join her on her quest, so they are the main two continuing characters & so it's all telepathic wolf-human bff loyalty & true friendship, which = ♥.
tl;dr: I did not get rid of the books! I set about obtaining some of her others as well, heh. (I discovered in the process that she started out as a horror writer, which does
not surprise me. I'm not very into horror generally, and when they edge more towards that, I find them harder going, but not enough to put me off.)
The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon, which I enjoyed quite a bit, although it was another one of the SFF reads I could finally get to, but didn't quite manage to enjoy as much as I'd hoped. It was very readable and I liked lots about it I can't remember in detail at this date, but it could lost most of the 2nd or 3rd (?) quarter of the book and not suffered in the slightest. I haven't read any of the author's other books, but it did make them curious about them - as I said, the style was really easy for me to read, the characters were distinct, and I'd be happy to read something shorter by her.
Incidentally, when I was almost at the end I looked in the tumblr tag and saw people instantly fancasting the queen character as Katie McGrath and even though I never watched
Merlin, I just immediately saw it as a Gwen/Morgana AU. I could map out all the characters and I don't even watch the show! I have no idea if that's actually true, but it was definitely a once seen, it can't be unseen thing. I don't think it entirely helped, lol.
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