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mostly somnolent
20 Jan 2025 02:36 pmI read a couple more Perry Mason books that were pretty good, TCOT Lame Canary and TCOT Stuttering Bishop, and they were both around 4/5. I started a couple more and quickly discarded them, but I haven't 100% given up on the rest of his oeuvre.
Now I'm reading Liu's Three Body Problem series, which I originally started a few years ago, but got scared off by the amount of violent brutality near the beginning, which is set during the Cultural Revolution. I stuck with it this time. There are conspicuous spots of WTF that are obviously due to adaptation decisions in the Netflix series, some transparent and incredibly annoying, others just completely mystifying. On the whole I found the series watchable and enjoyable, but even while watching there were a lot of places where I was like "This is really stupid and obviously made up; I wonder what it was in the book?"
I continue to focus intently on just knitting, pretty much, and things are mostly okay from day to day, just overall exhausted, no juice for anything at all, which is normal for us in January. The weather hasn't gotten cold enough to destroy the sump pump and Tristana and Sipuli are making very slow progress.
Now I'm reading Liu's Three Body Problem series, which I originally started a few years ago, but got scared off by the amount of violent brutality near the beginning, which is set during the Cultural Revolution. I stuck with it this time. There are conspicuous spots of WTF that are obviously due to adaptation decisions in the Netflix series, some transparent and incredibly annoying, others just completely mystifying. On the whole I found the series watchable and enjoyable, but even while watching there were a lot of places where I was like "This is really stupid and obviously made up; I wonder what it was in the book?"
I continue to focus intently on just knitting, pretty much, and things are mostly okay from day to day, just overall exhausted, no juice for anything at all, which is normal for us in January. The weather hasn't gotten cold enough to destroy the sump pump and Tristana and Sipuli are making very slow progress.
