you never have these problem things

[aphrodite_mine]

- Movies: 15/15 - None new. Started Shiva, Baby. Hopefully will finish this weekend. 
- TV Seasons: 15/10 - None new. Started The Crown, season 2. 
- Puzzles: 13/12 - Disney Villains is complete! Have started Board Games. Would be somewhat surprised if it is finished before the 31st. 
- Crafts: 7/1 - None new.
- Writing: 6/3-5 - None new.
- Albums: 3/? - None new.
- Books: 1/2 - None new. Have picked up Hangsaman again, however. lunabee34, please don't read this until F is firmly through with her freshman year.

Comments

[gloss]

Jackson is the only author whose work actually left me, like, triggered/deeply psychologically affected, to the point that I don't dare check out anything else of hers.

Anyway HI <3

[aphrodite_mine]

I'm very conscious of the potential there. Plath was that for me, for an author in that role.

Which Jackson was it, so I'm prepped?

DON'T READ MY OTHER COMMENT I DELETED

[lunabee34]

I misread and thought you said you'd finished, not that you'd picked it back up.

Whoops.

That comment is a bit spoilery, perhaps. Not terribly so, but still.

Sorry. :(

[aphrodite_mine]

Thank you so much for this sweet comment!

I totally spoiled myself, because I knew there was at least some whiff of rape and that it had connections (inspired or not, who knows) to a murder and I wanted to be sure to be prepared.

I definitely think the theory you mentioned holds weight. Before we can fully tell that something isn't right, Tony is a clue that something is off. And then things go full tilt.

[lunabee34]

*hugs*

Oh, good. I'm glad I didn't spoil you too bad.

Interesting (I'm saying that in my cartoon voice and drumming my fingers together). I never could tell whether that was a valid theory or not when I was reading criticism about Jackson. I will be very interested to see what you think about the ending; I can't tell from reading about it what it would be like in the execution.

[aphrodite_mine]

I'm so very excited to become a Jackson Scholar. :D I have so many opinions about all the things. I feel very lucky to have someone to talk at about them!

[lunabee34]

Yay!

You are making me want to read all the Jackson I haven't read yet, and I cannot start reading anything new right now. *pouts* As soon as I finish grading, I have to write this class that I don't even know if it will make yet, and if it does not, I am going to be so pissed if I spend the whole month writing a class that gets canceled, but in January, I'm going to get the books I haven't read and join you!

[aphrodite_mine]

I think I am going to wait until January to do The Birds Nest and The Sundial, partially in solidarity. Those are next, but I want to be mindful of my own mental state and they both look really intense.

[lunabee34]

I did not find The Sundial intense although YMMV. It is very much in the vein of We Have Always Lived in the Castle; I can't remember if you've read that one yet. So wry dark humor.

[aphrodite_mine]

That's helpful! I haven't read literally any other Jackson, aside from The Lottery, which I assume I did actually read in high school, though I just have a kind of... theme-shaped memory of it.