Listened and read
Oct. 6th, 2017 09:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethToday I listened to the 10 and Donna big finish audio adventure Death and the Queen, which was funnier than seems quite right when there's all that horrible death and skeleton armies and such. Donna is getting married, again. The Doctor keeps interrupting her dates and eventually admits he's having feelings about the whole thing where his friends leave again again again, but he's trying to be a grown up and wish her well now she's found the right man. Only he's trying so hard he steamrollers right over her half of the conversation, where the whole Queen in a castle thing is possibly not turning out like she'd wanted, and he may not be the right man. And then Death turns up for the wedding.
It's a lot of running around and a very Donna approach to suddenly ruling a kingdom and I thought it was :-D
Also lately I read The Long Way To A Small Angry Planet, by Becky Chambers, which was excellent and I'm definitely buying the sequel, but also thinky and I'm still chewing on it. Diverse cast, relationships that made me think Doctor Who quotes ('I'm a lizard woman from the dawn of time, and this is my wife', only not exactly), actual alien aliens, in different varieties, and a lot of complex arguments about how people and species get along, expressed through a long haul journey with a small crew, and some new diplomatic relations between races. It has layers and complications, and the characters don't agree with each other so what the argument of the book is takes some digging, and I want to have conversations about most all of the parts. Also everyone is vivid and interesting and I'll happily spend more time with them. Oh, and there was a whole thread about AI rights and parallels or comparisons drawn with cloning and cybernetics and just all sorts of layered stuff going on, about how people shape each other, and when people see each other as people. Thoughts!
... I feel like I'd need much more awake and some run up to have as many thoughts as it deserves.
But I've already started re reading the cat wizards books, ready for The Big Meow, so thoughts shall have to brew a while.
Good stories.
It's a lot of running around and a very Donna approach to suddenly ruling a kingdom and I thought it was :-D
Also lately I read The Long Way To A Small Angry Planet, by Becky Chambers, which was excellent and I'm definitely buying the sequel, but also thinky and I'm still chewing on it. Diverse cast, relationships that made me think Doctor Who quotes ('I'm a lizard woman from the dawn of time, and this is my wife', only not exactly), actual alien aliens, in different varieties, and a lot of complex arguments about how people and species get along, expressed through a long haul journey with a small crew, and some new diplomatic relations between races. It has layers and complications, and the characters don't agree with each other so what the argument of the book is takes some digging, and I want to have conversations about most all of the parts. Also everyone is vivid and interesting and I'll happily spend more time with them. Oh, and there was a whole thread about AI rights and parallels or comparisons drawn with cloning and cybernetics and just all sorts of layered stuff going on, about how people shape each other, and when people see each other as people. Thoughts!
... I feel like I'd need much more awake and some run up to have as many thoughts as it deserves.
But I've already started re reading the cat wizards books, ready for The Big Meow, so thoughts shall have to brew a while.
Good stories.