Let my Love Open the Door
Sep. 25th, 2022 12:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tracker7There was monkey business, of course. Had to work a 12-hour shift last night, and it felt longer. I'm justifying things here - Dad had some festival commitments, so we wouldn't have had much time together. I probably won't to see him for another couple of weeks now. The weekend after Archon, at the earliest.
I finished reading Heat 2 Friday night. Really liked it - it continues the film's mix of deep character study, criminal and police procedural, and roaring action. I wasn't fully sold on the leader of a Chicago home-invasion crew escaping the wrath of both Vincent Hanna and Neil McCauley for several years, but he was a smart villain, so it worked.
Now I'm reading The Calculating Stars, by Mary Robinette Kowal. Interesting alt-history. Under President Dewey, the NACA puts an American satellite in orbit in the early 1950s. Soon after, a meteorite hits Chesapeake Bay, wrecking the East Coast. It's soon determined that climate changes will make Earth uninhabitable within a few generations, so a massive planetary colonization effort begins. Solid writing so far, and Kowal doesn't flinch away from the racism and sexism of the era.
Gods, I'm tired. I think I'm going to finish putting away laundry, watch a little football, and go to bed.
I finished reading Heat 2 Friday night. Really liked it - it continues the film's mix of deep character study, criminal and police procedural, and roaring action. I wasn't fully sold on the leader of a Chicago home-invasion crew escaping the wrath of both Vincent Hanna and Neil McCauley for several years, but he was a smart villain, so it worked.
Now I'm reading The Calculating Stars, by Mary Robinette Kowal. Interesting alt-history. Under President Dewey, the NACA puts an American satellite in orbit in the early 1950s. Soon after, a meteorite hits Chesapeake Bay, wrecking the East Coast. It's soon determined that climate changes will make Earth uninhabitable within a few generations, so a massive planetary colonization effort begins. Solid writing so far, and Kowal doesn't flinch away from the racism and sexism of the era.
Gods, I'm tired. I think I'm going to finish putting away laundry, watch a little football, and go to bed.