Funny world
Nov. 29th, 2016 09:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
weaselettSo I am (finally) up to the Chalet School at War in my reread, which seems strangely relevant. I also still kinda love Jack Maynard, who smacked two nazis' heads together before Captain America had ever punched one. (And thankfully, I really hope, no one has ever done to Jack what marvel has done to Steve :/ - funnily enough in Exile, with that incident was published a year before Captain America first appeared (1940))
I think the thing with the Chalet School books, for all their faults, they really capture a time, and EBD was quite liberal and open minded (there is such a massive point of not blaming all Germans for what's happening - and it was published at the time, not in the modern time, distant from it all).
But it is really surreal reading those two now, with everything going on. I honestly never thought it would be so when I started my reread last year! So much has changed....
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In other news - ITV and BBC have both done serial killer dramas (ITV did Mary Ann Cotton BBC is now airing their Christie drama) - it's always a bit...interesting? They choose a route and run with it, and it does feel like the truth gets a little lost. (And with Christie there are still people alive impacted by that - versus Cotton it's more distant). I haven't watched either, which is a bit of a surprise even how much I read about that stuff, but eh, a bit leary at the moment. I may watch the Christie one on catch up, but we'll see.
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Not achieving Nano word count (I never managed to nail down my plot, so never really got going apart from random bits and pieces, though it has got my word count up for the year)
I am enjoying Conviction, and The Librarians so far - a bit torn with Criminal Minds (it was the best that could be done but *sighs*) we'll see how it goes.
I think the thing with the Chalet School books, for all their faults, they really capture a time, and EBD was quite liberal and open minded (there is such a massive point of not blaming all Germans for what's happening - and it was published at the time, not in the modern time, distant from it all).
But it is really surreal reading those two now, with everything going on. I honestly never thought it would be so when I started my reread last year! So much has changed....
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In other news - ITV and BBC have both done serial killer dramas (ITV did Mary Ann Cotton BBC is now airing their Christie drama) - it's always a bit...interesting? They choose a route and run with it, and it does feel like the truth gets a little lost. (And with Christie there are still people alive impacted by that - versus Cotton it's more distant). I haven't watched either, which is a bit of a surprise even how much I read about that stuff, but eh, a bit leary at the moment. I may watch the Christie one on catch up, but we'll see.
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Not achieving Nano word count (I never managed to nail down my plot, so never really got going apart from random bits and pieces, though it has got my word count up for the year)
I am enjoying Conviction, and The Librarians so far - a bit torn with Criminal Minds (it was the best that could be done but *sighs*) we'll see how it goes.
