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seasonsofdrabbles signup. Kind of bummed; I would have liked to join. I'd really love this new exchange to succeed, especially now that Multifandom Drabble has imploded. But there's just so much going on in my life right now that making any additional commitments would be a bad idea. Maybe I can still treat?
+ Took a new houseplant home today. I guess I figured "it's been a stressful week; I deserve a new plant", haha. There wasn't a label on it, but it looks like it might be a purple oyster plant/Rhoeo spathacea. Very striking green/striped leaves with purple on the underside. Really looking forward to getting to know this one. (And it came with its own ceramic planter, praise be. Hooray for proper drainage.)
+ Managed to get outside for a bit today. Went down to the park and read a while. Very relaxing, which is great - the past couple of weeks have been so much and I needed that... a lot.
+ I've had Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy out from the library for a... few weeks now, but it's only now that I've been able to sit down and settle into it properly, and I'm really enjoying it. I really like Le Carre's writing - I mean on a stylistic level, and stuff like voice and whatnot; the texture of it. The library got a bunch of his books in recently, so I think I'll have to check a few more out once I've finished this one.
+ I found out that there's going to be an English translation of Andre Bjerke's Lake of the Dead/De dødes tjern - it's due for release next year. A few years ago, I went through a strange period for about a month in which I'd watch the film adaptation of De dødes tjern once a week, because despite broadly falling under the label of thriller/horror movie, I found it very calming. I wouldn't say it's my favourite Norwegian film, or even my favourite Norwegian film that fits into the horror genre, but there's something weirdly compelling about it. Anyway - even though I rarely purchase new books, I'm honestly tempted to buy the English version of the novel, due to my strange fondness for the film.
seasonsofdrabbles signup. Kind of bummed; I would have liked to join. I'd really love this new exchange to succeed, especially now that Multifandom Drabble has imploded. But there's just so much going on in my life right now that making any additional commitments would be a bad idea. Maybe I can still treat?+ Took a new houseplant home today. I guess I figured "it's been a stressful week; I deserve a new plant", haha. There wasn't a label on it, but it looks like it might be a purple oyster plant/Rhoeo spathacea. Very striking green/striped leaves with purple on the underside. Really looking forward to getting to know this one. (And it came with its own ceramic planter, praise be. Hooray for proper drainage.)
+ Managed to get outside for a bit today. Went down to the park and read a while. Very relaxing, which is great - the past couple of weeks have been so much and I needed that... a lot.
+ I've had Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy out from the library for a... few weeks now, but it's only now that I've been able to sit down and settle into it properly, and I'm really enjoying it. I really like Le Carre's writing - I mean on a stylistic level, and stuff like voice and whatnot; the texture of it. The library got a bunch of his books in recently, so I think I'll have to check a few more out once I've finished this one.
+ I found out that there's going to be an English translation of Andre Bjerke's Lake of the Dead/De dødes tjern - it's due for release next year. A few years ago, I went through a strange period for about a month in which I'd watch the film adaptation of De dødes tjern once a week, because despite broadly falling under the label of thriller/horror movie, I found it very calming. I wouldn't say it's my favourite Norwegian film, or even my favourite Norwegian film that fits into the horror genre, but there's something weirdly compelling about it. Anyway - even though I rarely purchase new books, I'm honestly tempted to buy the English version of the novel, due to my strange fondness for the film.
Yuu. Fic writer & book lover. M/Canada.
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Date: 2021-09-05 04:00 am (UTC)For other Le Carre books, A Perfect Spy is a gripping read, perhaps his most autobiographical (from a family/background perspective), The Tailor of Panama is brutal farce (and should be read alongside Graham Greene's Our Man in Havana for best effect), and The Looking Glass War is an emotionally devastating satire of the whole espionage racket. Good stuff all around.
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