so-soA high So-So verging on low Pick. For the most part, Leela, who narrates most of the chapters, is rendered well, but her knowledge of sailing ships is not plausible to me (those bits felt like “research“). I also found the story was told just enough out of order to be disorienting chronologically.
pickThis is the novelization of Rose, the restart episode for the newer Doctor Who. It was good, but some of the additions seemed a little trite.
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I thought there was a challenge for a recipe and then trying it out. Now I can‘t find the original post.
Here‘s a “snowglobe” drink and the recipe. Super easy - my kind of cocktail!
pickOverall, a good collection. However, one author clearly does not knit or crochet, because at one point the story « Death in New Venice » refers to a « crochet needle » (it‘s a crochet HOOK, and it would not make a good stabbing implement). And of course this is the one thing I trip up on in a sci-fi story ?
pickThis was pretty good, leaning into Seven‘s more manipulative side and presenting some truly horrifying Cybermen. Maybe don‘t read this when eating lunch 😅
pickA fun way to revisit the first two seasons of Sherlock.
I don't mean to blow my own trumpet, but I'm a very fast reader, and good at filtering out gibberish....
Is Ludwig a Litsy member?
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We've come to Durham for a few days' break, which means that the country has had a typical month's-worth of rain in one day! 🌧️☔ Expecting such weather as our usual lot, at least there's lots of indoor things to do.
Books will be bought on this trip, starting with these two that I got from the supermarket charity table ½ mile from my front door when we stopped for takeaway coffee for the journey 🤦♂️
pickThese collected essays from Sandifer‘s Doctor Who blog have each series/season of the show deconstructed with critical reflections of the social & political climate at the time of release on both a personal & wider level. This isn‘t always as dry as it sounds but I did skip a few filler essays. This volume is number 4 but the 2nd I‘ve read (I wasn‘t born during Hartnell/Troughton years so skipped those books). I watch the show as I read the essays
pan80/150 I love Doctor Who, and I've enjoyed many of his written adventures, but this isn't one of them. Slow and tedious, I thought the author was building atmosphere, but then nothing much happened. The Cybermen never really come off as a scary threat, lumbering along like slow zombies, ultimately defeated by some last second techno babble on the Doctor's part. Also, I felt the story suffered because the Doctor was without a companion. ⬇️
