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cimorene... I still feel like I need 3 weeks off.
About 6 days of that is for sleeping, a couple of days for reading and the rest is because the house is such a mess that it's making me depressed and anxious (specifically about that, I mean; I was obviously already depressed and anxious for other, general reasons). It's oppressing me. But I don't have enough energy for marathon cleaning, so it would probably take two weeks to fix it.
I started rereading The Moon and the Sun (Vonda McIntyre, mermaid torture at the court of the Sun King) but I wasn't getting into it and I ended up rereading The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (NK Jemison, the iconic classic) instead because I haven't read the sequels. Poked at The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet (Becky Chambers, hard science fiction) and Nautilus (Nicola Griffith, anthropology and gender sf?), but, idk, didn't get into them either. In the Chambers, there's a semi-mysterious secret in the protagonist's past, but even as she's narrating it's a mystery to the reader what it is and what's up with it. Infodumping it all at once would be bad too of course, but I guess it felt a little too artificial. And in Nautilus, I got far enough to conclude the narrator's life choices, while not unrealistic, were too foolhardy to ever begin to relate to, and then I went to find something more soothing to my sensibilities. I have a really hard time with narratives where I'm constantly going "WHY would you DO that, you idiot?!!!!" I've made it through a few of them over time, but they're kind of emotionally exhausting.
Mostly they kind of made me want to reread Jack McDevitt and John Varley. And these half-remembered collections of Saberhagen and Zelazny short stories and stuff like The Very Best Short Science Fiction (not the actual title) from my dad's books that I read as a kid. Probably those half-remembered ones wouldn't be as good as I remember them if I read them as an adult, given my experience with the McIntyre so far. Maybe I should just read the next NK Jemison.
About 6 days of that is for sleeping, a couple of days for reading and the rest is because the house is such a mess that it's making me depressed and anxious (specifically about that, I mean; I was obviously already depressed and anxious for other, general reasons). It's oppressing me. But I don't have enough energy for marathon cleaning, so it would probably take two weeks to fix it.
I started rereading The Moon and the Sun (Vonda McIntyre, mermaid torture at the court of the Sun King) but I wasn't getting into it and I ended up rereading The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (NK Jemison, the iconic classic) instead because I haven't read the sequels. Poked at The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet (Becky Chambers, hard science fiction) and Nautilus (Nicola Griffith, anthropology and gender sf?), but, idk, didn't get into them either. In the Chambers, there's a semi-mysterious secret in the protagonist's past, but even as she's narrating it's a mystery to the reader what it is and what's up with it. Infodumping it all at once would be bad too of course, but I guess it felt a little too artificial. And in Nautilus, I got far enough to conclude the narrator's life choices, while not unrealistic, were too foolhardy to ever begin to relate to, and then I went to find something more soothing to my sensibilities. I have a really hard time with narratives where I'm constantly going "WHY would you DO that, you idiot?!!!!" I've made it through a few of them over time, but they're kind of emotionally exhausting.
Mostly they kind of made me want to reread Jack McDevitt and John Varley. And these half-remembered collections of Saberhagen and Zelazny short stories and stuff like The Very Best Short Science Fiction (not the actual title) from my dad's books that I read as a kid. Probably those half-remembered ones wouldn't be as good as I remember them if I read them as an adult, given my experience with the McIntyre so far. Maybe I should just read the next NK Jemison.
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Date: 25 Jan 2022 10:31 pm (UTC)Wishing you peace and sunshine.
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