Note, I’m thinking about how to shuffle some of this into week notes instead of here.
Expect some disruption in the next month or two.
What I’m reading
Nexus by Harari
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie.
Thoroughly enjoyed this; ripped through it in just a few days.
Warning: Spoilers.
I really enjoyed the defaulting of gender pronouns to the feminine, it was an excellent way to converse with the reader outside the text.
While I think the AI relationship was both central and also minor to the story, it also served as a great examination of those implications without feeling heavy handed or even directly the topic. It was great.
It seemed like all the technical pieces where there for resurrections, but apparently in this world death is final.
For a while I suspected that One Esk’s body’s original person might come out or be revealed to be a silent passenger or co-occupant of the body. But I think that was all just demonstrating the unreliability of the narrator.
I would like to know which literary story this one speaks to or parallels.
And, are the Radch approximately Rome? And the monotheistic V-something people (sorry the book is not in front of me at the moment) are approximately Christians or other Abrahamic religion? I didn’t really follow why they were brought up specifically, or if those additional details were just for interest and not for additional subtext.
The Judgement, a short story by Franz Kafka
The eff did I just read?
What I’m doing
Keeping up the running.
Backpacking and road tripping this weekend.
What I’m listening to
Panic World S1E2 and S1E3.
I’ll comment on each in the weeknotes.
What I’m eating
Pizza over the weekend.
What I’m watching
Maigomika. The ramen noodle machine episode. Neat.