media consumed, 20th july
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aamcnamaraWhite Cat, Holly Black: Awesome. Um. Can I just leave it at that? There were a couple of times when I frowned at the book, but of course totally unreliable narrator in several senses so you come to expect that. I will definitely read the sequel. (Possible-allegory-for-gay wizard gangsters/mafia types? Yes please.)
Rashomon: Interesting? Not quite in the Minnesota, "well, that was... interesting" sense. It didn't blow my mind, but it's possible that that's because enough of the media I consume now has been influenced by it (and similar things?) that it doesn't seem all that revolutionary. I wasn't sure in the end how I felt about it. A good example of an odd structure, though,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
alecaustin, so thanks! Was there anything particularly that you'd want to point out to me to consider?
In library work: I got to 1904, and the second box of political cartoons. We are making progress through history. This is good. I now know, among other things, where Teddy Roosevelt's summer home was, who the Democratic presidential candidate was in 1904 and all the names of the Minnesotan gubernatorial candidates of the same year, and just how tired everyone was of William Jennings Bryan, i.e., very.
Also, I found a 1903 cartoon making fun of Minnesotans for saying that when it gets to thirty below it's so dry you can't really feel the cold any more. So there is historical precedent for me feeling that way! More than a hundred years, in fact! This is deeply consoling.
Rashomon: Interesting? Not quite in the Minnesota, "well, that was... interesting" sense. It didn't blow my mind, but it's possible that that's because enough of the media I consume now has been influenced by it (and similar things?) that it doesn't seem all that revolutionary. I wasn't sure in the end how I felt about it. A good example of an odd structure, though,
alecaustin, so thanks! Was there anything particularly that you'd want to point out to me to consider?In library work: I got to 1904, and the second box of political cartoons. We are making progress through history. This is good. I now know, among other things, where Teddy Roosevelt's summer home was, who the Democratic presidential candidate was in 1904 and all the names of the Minnesotan gubernatorial candidates of the same year, and just how tired everyone was of William Jennings Bryan, i.e., very.
Also, I found a 1903 cartoon making fun of Minnesotans for saying that when it gets to thirty below it's so dry you can't really feel the cold any more. So there is historical precedent for me feeling that way! More than a hundred years, in fact! This is deeply consoling.