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Can I trade in the dark for a new state of mind?
The plumbers came this morning at the crack of legality and after spending several hours filling the apartment with metallic whining sounds which left us wondering if they were cutting through pipe, determined that whatever the nature of the problem with the plumbing, it cannot be fixed through our ceiling and will in fact need to be fixed from the second-floor bathroom of the upstairs apartment. They have replaced the insulation and sheetrock of the bathroom ceiling and we are waiting to hear if the plasterer can come this afternoon. We are no longer sure why our ceiling was torn out in the first place, causing such disruption that it effectively ate all of last week.
I have had two doctor's appointments so far this week and have three to go, including another this afternoon. So far one has been neutral to reassuring and the other has been demoralizing to rage-making. I guess the rest of the week is flip a coin.
Have some links.
1. On the refugees of Pompeii and Herculaneum and the lives they built after the eruption of 79. I had not realized the regional names were distinctive enough that families could be accurately tracked by them. The fostering by one refugee family of a child who was likely the sole survivor of his own family is the kind of thing that folds up two thousand years.
2. Julia Rios has posted in further detail about All in Among the Briars: An Anthology of Mythic Wonder (2024), including the table of contents and the introduction. The fundraiser for Jessica and Jeremy Wick is still ongoing. Grief shouldn't cost more than it already does.
3. Boston-area people in need of more queer space screwball in your lives, tomorrow evening Brookline Booksmith is hosting the launch party for Rebecca Fraimow's Lady Eve's Last Con (2024) with the author in person. The long weekend of Noir City Boston at the Brattle does not overlap the event, but kind of metaphysically should.
I have had two doctor's appointments so far this week and have three to go, including another this afternoon. So far one has been neutral to reassuring and the other has been demoralizing to rage-making. I guess the rest of the week is flip a coin.
Have some links.
1. On the refugees of Pompeii and Herculaneum and the lives they built after the eruption of 79. I had not realized the regional names were distinctive enough that families could be accurately tracked by them. The fostering by one refugee family of a child who was likely the sole survivor of his own family is the kind of thing that folds up two thousand years.
2. Julia Rios has posted in further detail about All in Among the Briars: An Anthology of Mythic Wonder (2024), including the table of contents and the introduction. The fundraiser for Jessica and Jeremy Wick is still ongoing. Grief shouldn't cost more than it already does.
3. Boston-area people in need of more queer space screwball in your lives, tomorrow evening Brookline Booksmith is hosting the launch party for Rebecca Fraimow's Lady Eve's Last Con (2024) with the author in person. The long weekend of Noir City Boston at the Brattle does not overlap the event, but kind of metaphysically should.
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The second book changes viewpoint character and seems like an AU, like we jumped timelines. The situation-as-is disagrees in important ways with Book 1, and we don't find out why until 3/5ths of the way through. Then there is dramatic action with revelations.
Book 3 has a new viewpoint character again, and a time-skip, so it is bewilderingly different in a new way. And once you're 3/5ths of the way in, it starts having revelations.
I have read book 2 twice so far, and book 3 twice, and am now going back through book 1, just astonished at the blatant flags the author put right there on the page that look innocuous and unimportant the first time through.
They are also all full of trauma and grief and "They did WHAT?!" and I had to set my mental thresholds to ignore so much bones and grue.
And it is in no way wrapped up, and the fourth-and-promised-final book won't be out until 2025.
So I don't know if it would work for you - your movie and book reviews are a lot more thoughtfully sociological and artistic - but that's what I can say without major spoilers.