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May. 15th, 2013 02:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kindkitHello again from the limbo of computerlessness. I miss you all and wish I had time to read your posts properly and comment, but at the moment I have about 1-2 hours of computer access a week. *wibble*
Otherwise things are fine. Working a lot, which is good because hours = money, and reading a lot because I've got bugger all else to do when I'm not at work. I'm about halfway through an enormous books about fossils and human origins, and mostly done with one about the Battle of Britain. (Can't recall the latter's authors--there are 2--or title at the moment, but it was published as a companion book to a PBS series and is decent enough. Books about the BoB tend to be very anecdotal, focusing on individual pilots' stories and also tending to mythologize and glorify. There's plenty to mythologize, certainly, but I also like to have a broader and more skeptical view, and the book I'm reading at least gestures towards that. And because it's designed in part for an American audience, though the authors are British, it views the BoB in part through the lens of the impression Churchill was trying to make on America, from whom aid was desperately needed and not readily forthcoming. It's an interesting perspective and does a lot to put summer 1940 into the context of the war as a whole.)
Fiction is, as always, tricky for me. I've been re-reading Reginald Hill and picking up interesting-looking things from the library (often to read ten pages and give up). Looking forward to reading John Le Carré's newest as soon as I can get my hands on a library copy.
I saw Iron Man 3 last week and enjoyed it well enough. The script was better at setting up characterization and character arcs than it was at following through with them, but unlike Iron Man 2 it didn't put me to sleep. And there was some potentially interesting, if ultimately incoherent, political commentary in there.
Oh, god, I miss fanfic (in general, not for IM3 necessarily) and proper fandom discussions. If you want to link me to things you find interesting, so that when I'm back I can check them out, that would be great.
Otherwise things are fine. Working a lot, which is good because hours = money, and reading a lot because I've got bugger all else to do when I'm not at work. I'm about halfway through an enormous books about fossils and human origins, and mostly done with one about the Battle of Britain. (Can't recall the latter's authors--there are 2--or title at the moment, but it was published as a companion book to a PBS series and is decent enough. Books about the BoB tend to be very anecdotal, focusing on individual pilots' stories and also tending to mythologize and glorify. There's plenty to mythologize, certainly, but I also like to have a broader and more skeptical view, and the book I'm reading at least gestures towards that. And because it's designed in part for an American audience, though the authors are British, it views the BoB in part through the lens of the impression Churchill was trying to make on America, from whom aid was desperately needed and not readily forthcoming. It's an interesting perspective and does a lot to put summer 1940 into the context of the war as a whole.)
Fiction is, as always, tricky for me. I've been re-reading Reginald Hill and picking up interesting-looking things from the library (often to read ten pages and give up). Looking forward to reading John Le Carré's newest as soon as I can get my hands on a library copy.
I saw Iron Man 3 last week and enjoyed it well enough. The script was better at setting up characterization and character arcs than it was at following through with them, but unlike Iron Man 2 it didn't put me to sleep. And there was some potentially interesting, if ultimately incoherent, political commentary in there.
Oh, god, I miss fanfic (in general, not for IM3 necessarily) and proper fandom discussions. If you want to link me to things you find interesting, so that when I'm back I can check them out, that would be great.
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Date: 2013-05-15 09:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-05-16 04:53 pm (UTC)Looking forward to your return! And if I find anything interesting I will push it your way. ♥