1. I'm re-reading the last few volumes of
Sandman along with
Mark Reads Sandman. (To start with I just dipped into the books when I wanted to check a detail, then I started re-reading bits, and now it's definitely a continuous re-read.)
I don't think I've mentioned Mark Reads here before, though I keep meaning to. The general premise is that Mark reads a popular work of fiction that he doesn't know anything about, one chapter a day, and after each chapter he writes and blogs a post reacting to the events of the chapter and trying to predict where the story's going next.
( Read more... )Things Mark has read include
Harry Potter,
The Hobbit and
The Lord of the Rings,
His Dark Materials, and
The Hunger Games. He also has a companion blog, Mark Watches, where he's currently episode-by-episoding his way through
Buffy and
Angel.
2. I've more or less given up on the multiplayer aspect of
Worlds in Time, the
Doctor Who online multiplayer game, and am working my way through the storyline as if it were single-player mode, accompanied only by the computer-operated assistants.
( Read more... )3. Meanwhile,
Portal 2 has an actual single-player storyline that I've been working my way through.
( Read more... )4. For my thoughts on
Brave and
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, see my previous Five Things post.
5. I went to see
Steel Magnolias mainly because I had several friends in the cast; I wasn't at all sure it would be my kind of thing. As it turned out, I liked it a lot. This suggests that there may be whole unexplored areas of fiction that have drifted by me because they seemed on the surface to be not my kind of thing. If so, I'm not sure I want to know; it's not as if I don't have a large enough pile of things to read and watch as it is.
(There's probably some clever way to tie this back around to point 1, since one of the things Mark Reads is built on is Mark discovering and falling in love with works that he'd previously drifted by because they superficially appeared to be not his kind of thing. But it's late, and I'm tired, and I'm not going to bother.)
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