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Feb. 8th, 2019 05:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nightdog_barksCold and bleak today -- the sun kept trying to come out, but now it's disappeared, seemingly for good. No sleet, as least as of yet, and it may stay south of us.
Did finish reading Dan Simmons' The Terror, and, while I did say it had its flaws, I also ended up ... loving it. I thought Simmons really did do justice to the historical story of the lost Franklin expedition. There were a few instances where the flashback-within-a-flashback technique didn't quite work for me, and a couple of places where Simmons insisted on rehashing events he didn't need to, but overall he does an AMAZING job of telling a difficult story, with some absolutely incredible set pieces (the "masked ball on the ice" just blew me away). So, yes. Two thumbs up, enthusiastically recommend. Would warn for contextually-appropriate gory death, violence, and sickness (scurvy omg), plus the kind of casual racism one would expect from certain characters.
Currently reading a nonfiction book by a writer named Finn Murphy, called The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road, which is exactly what it sounds like. I picked it up because we saw the author being interviewed by Paul Solman on PBS NewsHour a few weeks ago, and I thought it sounded interesting. And so far, it is! :D
Did finish reading Dan Simmons' The Terror, and, while I did say it had its flaws, I also ended up ... loving it. I thought Simmons really did do justice to the historical story of the lost Franklin expedition. There were a few instances where the flashback-within-a-flashback technique didn't quite work for me, and a couple of places where Simmons insisted on rehashing events he didn't need to, but overall he does an AMAZING job of telling a difficult story, with some absolutely incredible set pieces (the "masked ball on the ice" just blew me away). So, yes. Two thumbs up, enthusiastically recommend. Would warn for contextually-appropriate gory death, violence, and sickness (scurvy omg), plus the kind of casual racism one would expect from certain characters.
Currently reading a nonfiction book by a writer named Finn Murphy, called The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road, which is exactly what it sounds like. I picked it up because we saw the author being interviewed by Paul Solman on PBS NewsHour a few weeks ago, and I thought it sounded interesting. And so far, it is! :D