I'm so sick of catching flies

[aphrodite_mine]

- Movies: 15/15 - None new. Can now reveal that one of my 15 was Shirley. SO DAMN GOOD. 
- TV Seasons: 15/10 - None new. Started season 2 of The Great, not The Crown. Good lord. That could have been very confusing.
- Puzzles: 13/12 - None new.
- Crafts: 8/1 - E and I made an apple buddy, which she promptly declared "funny looking" and suggested that her brothers should destroy it. I'm not mad. It was funny looking. 
- Writing: 6/3-5 - None new.
- Albums: 5/? - Took a nice album listen to Soccer Mommy - Color Theory and Rosie Tucker - Sucker Supreme. Found new favorites in both. Color Theory is the stronger album if we're comparing, but they both have some serious bangers. 
- Books: 2/2 - Finished Hangsaman. Feeling curiously about the ending. The story is uneven and jumpy. I'd like to read it again, but I'd like to read different stories more. I do feel like Shirley did an excellent job of adapting much of it. Started The Wonder by Emma Donoghue. It seems to be a fairly straightforward piece of historical fiction, which is a nice breather amidst the Shirley Jackson-a-thon.
- Podcast Episodes: 7/? - Thinking about how best to measure podcast listening in 2022. Not sure episodes is it, but 7 across two days isn't un-remarkable, I suppose. 

Comments

[lunabee34]

Tell me more about what you think of the ending of Hangsaman.

Also, where can Shirley be watched? I now want to watch it very much. :)

[kore]

Hangsaman is very jumpy and mystical, but at the same time it's one of the most devastating portraits of what it's like to be an Outsider at college that I've ever read. I feel this strong almost personal connection to it. (I still don't think Tony isn't real, tho! Or rather, I want Tony to be real.)