From 22b80e1fc37d7e1e9f4fade3299a1ab58c7bfd36 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Patrick Stevens <3138005+Smaug123@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2024 21:38:18 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] More stuff in reading list (#15) --- hugo/content/films/index.md | 2 ++ hugo/content/reading-list/index.md | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/hugo/content/films/index.md b/hugo/content/films/index.md index 1f80dba..5bd45c1 100644 --- a/hugo/content/films/index.md +++ b/hugo/content/films/index.md @@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ layout: page This page holds a list of films I have watched, spoiler-free, starting from 9th January 2015. +* [The Grand Budapest Hotel](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2278388/): This is one of my favourite films. In general I find Wes Anderson a bit hit-or-miss, but this film is sublime. Excellent characterisation, quick deadpan wit. Ralph Fiennes is just glorious here. + * [Argylle](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15009428/): Sadly disappointing. This film was at least twice as long as it should have been. A good version would have been a short funny pastiche; what we actually got was a long boring film punctuated by moments of glorious whimsy. * [A Haunting in Venice](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22687790/): Well, I really enjoyed this, and I think I was surrounded by heathens in the cinema. I successfully called precisely none of the plot, and it all tied up so neatly. Ariadne Oliver will always be Zoë Wanamaker to me, but I believed Kenneth Branagh. Top-tier Poirot. diff --git a/hugo/content/reading-list/index.md b/hugo/content/reading-list/index.md index 71d75aa..c5bddef 100755 --- a/hugo/content/reading-list/index.md +++ b/hugo/content/reading-list/index.md @@ -76,6 +76,8 @@ This page holds a list of the books I am reading, and a list of books I have rea # Have read +* Red Side Story, by Jasper Fforde (sequel to Shades of Grey). Solidly as I expected it to be; fairly enjoyable. Plot was largely predictable. +* [Planecrash](https://www.projectlawful.com/). It turns out that self-insert sex fiction is not actually much better if you are self-aware about it. There's some excellent readable story in here, but you have to wade through hours and hours of sex and sex-politics to find it. Absolutely not worth reading from start to finish; just find someone to link the "dath ilan society description and basic coordination classes" highlights. * Tao Te Ching, by Lao Tzu, interpreted by Ursula Le Guin. Her poetry is *beautiful*. Not an easy read: I felt I was rushing at two hours for thirty-odd chapters to get the bare minimum of comprehension, but it's deep enough that each chapter would reward an hour of study. I'm currently going to improv classes, and this feels like it is secretly a book about improv! * Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke. Wonderful. Ethereal (but in a sort of grounded way), beautiful. * Impro, by Keith Johnstone. The first half of this book is very interesting, easy reading, and I suspect rather useful; I believe it's been helpful in my introductory improv lessons. (I don't know how useful it will be without practice of some sort, but I also suspect it's possible to practise without going full improv-classes.) The second half is an exploration of mask work, Commedia dell'arte, trance states, and possession, and I found that much less worth reading.