Assorted

[cyphomandra]

I am also attempting to post more often. These are things I could post about, ranked in descending order of how much I've already written - let me know if any appeal.

Mr Burns: A Post-Electric play
The NT Live (film) version of Angels in America: Perestroika
All the other theatre I saw last year
All the other theatre I've seen this year (warning: contains complaining)
Books read this year and not yet written up (see below)
Escape rooms I have done (5, so far)
All the books I consider myself to still be in the process of reading even if it's been years since I last looked at them

Books in parentheses have been written up for fffriday. In July the one sole book I read was both brilliant and lengthy, but I also wrote Dragon Rising, and in October I did a lot of travelling and reading ebooks.

June

Tillie Walden, Spinning
Helene Hanff, 84, Charing Cross road (re-read)
Robin Stevens, Murder most unladylike (re-read)
Robin Stevens, Arsenic for tea (re-read)
Robin Stevens, First class murder (re-read)
Robin Stevens, Jolly foul play (re-read)
Robin Stevens, Mistletoe and murder
Robin Stevens, Cream buns and crime
(Shira Glassman, The Second Mango)
Laura Amy Schlitz, A drowned maiden's hair
T Kingfisher, Clockwork boys
Nancy Garden, The year they burned the books
Dick Francis, Reflex (re-read)
Anthony Horowitz, The house of silk

July

Leo Marks, Between silk and cyanide: a codemaker's war 1941-1945

August

Emily Writes, Is it bedtime yet
Victoria Young, Things I wish I’d known
Sarah Rees Brennan, Tell the wind and fire
Stephen King, The outsider
(Karis Walsh, Mounting danger)
(Karis Walsh, Mounting evidence)
Marieke Nijkamp, This is where it ends

September

Dessa Lux, Omega Required
Bridget McGovern, Rocket Fuel: Some of the best from Tor.com nonfiction
Noreen Riols, The Secret Ministry of Ag and fish
(Britta Lundin, Ship It)
Peale McDaniel, Exog
Liz Byrski, In love and war: nursing heroes,
Jinty: Land of No Tears and The Human Zoo
Emily Skrutskie, The abyss surrounds us
Emily Skrutskie, Hull metal girls
Brenna Thummler, Sheets

October

Claire O'Dell, A study in honour
Nicola Griffith, So Lucky
Ellen Klages, Passing strange
Anne Gracie, An honourable thief
JY Yang, The black tides of heaven
Jilly Cooper, Rivals (re-read)
Vivian Shaw, Strange Practice
Vivian Shaw, Dreadful company
Lilja Sigurdardóttir, Snare
Adam Kay, This is going to hurt: Secret diaries of a junior doctor
Harlan Coben, No second chance (Monica, Rachel)
Nicci Gerard, Twilight Hour
Jilly Cooper, Mount!
A book about the early history of computer gaming that I have forgotten the title of and think I got a rec from from isis; it's on my Kobo, which is somewhere in the house
Lauren Weisberger, The Devil wears Prada
Amy Lane, Carry the ocean
Meaghan Wilson Anastasios, The honourable thief (only now do I realise I read two books with almost exactly the same name in the same month)
Anne Gracie, Marry in Scandal
Robin Stevens, A spoonful of murder

November

Jilly Cooper, Polo (re-read)
David Lebovitz, The perfect scoop, revised and updated
Helen Hoang, The kiss quotient
Siobhan Dowd, The London eye mystery
Mohsin Hamid, Exit west (We are all migrants through time)
Robin Stevens, Death in the spotlight
Jilly Cooper, Emily
Kara Thomas, The cheerleaders

December

Angie Thomas, The hate U give
Ira Levin, A kiss before dying
Scott Pape, The Barefoot Investor

Comments

[ambyr]

You know I want to read all of these, but if I have to pick just some:

Mr Burns: A Post-Electric play
The NT Live (film) version of Angels in America: Perestroika
All the other theatre I saw last year
All the other theatre I've seen this year (warning: contains complaining)
Escape rooms I have done (5, so far)
Claire O'Dell, A study in honour
Ellen Klages, Passing strange
JY Yang, The black tides of heaven

...okay fine that doesn’t narrow it down much.

[cyphomandra]

Ha! I will definitely post on some of them. Interestingly the three books you've picked are all ones that had bits I really liked but other bits that stopped them from being books I loved.

[skygiants]

I would be particularly interested in seeing posts about The Clockwork Boys, The Hate U Give, or Passing Strange, because I have read them; or So Lucky, Between Silk and Cyanide, or the Vivian Shaws, because I have had for some time a vague intention of reading them! Or about escape rooms.

[ambyr]

Between Silk and Cyanide is amazing.

[cyphomandra]

It is incredible. I need to get my own copy.

[cyphomandra]

Thoughts will be forthcoming! I may hold off on The Clockwork Boys until I've read The Wonder Engine, though.

[isis]

I would love to hear your thoughts on escape rooms!

Also, what you thought about the book on computer gaming, since I recced it to you, of course.

[cyphomandra]

Escape rooms will definitely be coming! As will the computer gaming book, once I find my Kobo - it was fascinating seeing which bits my own past overlapped with and which bits were totally different.

In order...

[rachelmanija]

Number one with a bullet: Mr Burns: A Post-Electric play. I read the script but was obviously missing about 80% of what it was like to experience in performance.

Escape rooms

Any theatre you feel like writing about, ESPECIALLY if it contains complaining.

Jilly Cooper, Mount!

Vivian Shaw, Strange Practice
Vivian Shaw, Dreadful company

Nicola Griffith, So Lucky

Stephen King, The outsider

Re: In order...

[cyphomandra]

Mr Burns will be coming up shortly, because a) I loved it and b) I have half a review done (and then I went overseas). Escape rooms ditto. I will see how I feel about complaining about theatre - I am currently waiting for one theatre company to ask me why I haven't resubscribed, so I can tell them in explicit detail.

[china_shop]

Ooh, escape rooms, especially. Also the Sara Rees Brennan. :-)

HAI!

[cyphomandra]

Hello!!

Escape rooms will definitely be coming up. Have you read the Sarah Rees Brennan? (or Tale of Two Cities?

[china_shop]

No, but I've read and enjoyed other SRB books. (And no, I haven't read Tale of Two Cities -- is it related?)

[cyphomandra]

It's her fantasy re-telling of it!

[china_shop]

Ha, I didn't even know that. *wanders around happily outside the loop*