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Nov. 10th, 2023 03:13 pmSo I've read some of the reactions to last night's episode of Critical Role, ( and I'm starting to wonder if I'm the only one who... )
I am currently nearly done with Anthony Trollope's The Macdermots of Ballycloran, which has very much been the First Novel He Wrote, with the kind of accompanying issues of putting together a compelling a story such works often suffer from. There are certainly much stronger moments in it as well. It perhaps says something that Trollope definitely exposes the evils of colonialism in it when, knowing as much as I do about him, he probably only partly realized he was doing so; he was good enough at observing and recording miseries, and recognizing their immediate cause, while still being blind as a Britisher of his time. ( Although it does rankle that... )
Quite excited about the upcoming Laudna novel. It'll be very nice indeed if it ends with her meeting Imogen-and the audiobook would of course allow us to literally hear that meeting with Marisha and Laura's voices. Though I'm still holding out hope for a Lord Estheross novel someday.
I am currently nearly done with Anthony Trollope's The Macdermots of Ballycloran, which has very much been the First Novel He Wrote, with the kind of accompanying issues of putting together a compelling a story such works often suffer from. There are certainly much stronger moments in it as well. It perhaps says something that Trollope definitely exposes the evils of colonialism in it when, knowing as much as I do about him, he probably only partly realized he was doing so; he was good enough at observing and recording miseries, and recognizing their immediate cause, while still being blind as a Britisher of his time. ( Although it does rankle that... )
Quite excited about the upcoming Laudna novel. It'll be very nice indeed if it ends with her meeting Imogen-and the audiobook would of course allow us to literally hear that meeting with Marisha and Laura's voices. Though I'm still holding out hope for a Lord Estheross novel someday.
