A very busy week, didn’t get to do any reading at all.
What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening lately?
A reminder about our Book Bingo. Take look, if you haven’t already.
A very busy week, didn’t get to do any reading at all.
What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening lately?
A reminder about our Book Bingo. Take look, if you haven’t already.
Finished A Wizard of Earthsea for bingo. I wasn’t really in the right headspace for the narrative style, which made reading it more of a slog than I think it deserved, but I did enjoy the story. It’s not hard to see why Hayao Miyazaki wanted to adapt it: the themes, presentation, and all the little slice of life moments really feel tailor-made for a Ghibli film. (I haven’t seen Tales from* Earthsea.)
Definitely qualifies for: Now a Major Motion Picture, Older Than You Are (1968), Local to You hard mode (Oregon), (alt) A Change in Perspective
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Started The Last Gifts of the Universe by Rory August last night. Only a few pages in, but it’s light and quippy so far, without being annoying.
Huh, how come I didn’t know there was a Ghibli movie on A Wizard of Earthsea! Time to check it out!
It ended up being Miyazaki’s son’s first movie, and is a mashup of the entire series and some other stuff. Famous for this tidbit (quoted from Wiki):
Le Guin was also not a fan, so…