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grayestofghostsWell, today I was at therapy and we were figuring out our schedule for the next month or so, and I realized that my next appointment is on US election day, so that's terrifying.
I've finished reading all 10 novels for this year, but I do not have a write up for them yet, I am working on it. Right now my thoughts are, I am not sure if I'm going to read any more novels this year. Probably, because there's still two months left, but also I feel like I have a lot of non-fiction and short readings to catch up on, so maybe not. Next year, I'm thinking of maybe going for twelve novels?
I saw a production of a play version of Frankenstein and it makes me very curious about the version that Mary Shelley saw before she did her rewrites. It also makes me wonder if I should hurry up and make my own interpretation because it does seem new compared to most interpretations.
I am also maybe starting to get into zines? If I find any interesting ones online I may post them here, though a linklist for online zines seems like something I'd put on my static site. I have been thinking of making my own, but it may not end up a zine. It's something about how moderation on the internet is the secret sauce that holds everything together and people don't realize it and it's why we can't have nice things and why we can't seem to "go back" to a simpler internet. But it may be too long or meandering to make a proper zine, I don't know.
I am also, well, still working on the same science fiction novel. Who knows how that will go.
I've finished reading all 10 novels for this year, but I do not have a write up for them yet, I am working on it. Right now my thoughts are, I am not sure if I'm going to read any more novels this year. Probably, because there's still two months left, but also I feel like I have a lot of non-fiction and short readings to catch up on, so maybe not. Next year, I'm thinking of maybe going for twelve novels?
I saw a production of a play version of Frankenstein and it makes me very curious about the version that Mary Shelley saw before she did her rewrites. It also makes me wonder if I should hurry up and make my own interpretation because it does seem new compared to most interpretations.
I am also maybe starting to get into zines? If I find any interesting ones online I may post them here, though a linklist for online zines seems like something I'd put on my static site. I have been thinking of making my own, but it may not end up a zine. It's something about how moderation on the internet is the secret sauce that holds everything together and people don't realize it and it's why we can't have nice things and why we can't seem to "go back" to a simpler internet. But it may be too long or meandering to make a proper zine, I don't know.
I am also, well, still working on the same science fiction novel. Who knows how that will go.
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Date: 2024-11-01 11:26 am (UTC)Zines! If you’d make one yourself would it be about Frankenstein? Or a different focus like Arcane? Have you found any particularly good ones to recommend overall?
Also how was the play version of Frankenstein? I can see it being pretty interesting or kind of paint by numbers if not super invested into.
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Date: 2024-11-05 12:36 am (UTC)The Frankenstein stage play was well done but it didn't say anything new. It was the National Theatre Live version with Benedict Cumberbatch as the creature and Johnny Lee Miller as Victor. I think the main thing is that it fleshed out the creature's story compared to the novel and shrank Victor's, which I feel like is closer to the popular conception of the story. I know that between Shelley's first and third editions, there was a popular Frankenstein stage play which is how she was able to make money off of that third run. I was wondering how close this version was to the original stage version but it sounds like the 2011 play was way closer to the novel than the stage play adaptation Shelley saw.