melreads: Text: "The earth is doomed" (it's a Buffy quote) (Buffy: earth is doomed)
(discussion of fictional violence, & spoilers)

Friday, July 24, 2020
Hmm, I haven't actually read much in the last day or two. I was kind of looking at some things I might want to read in the future, some recommendations and such... For one thing, I have one of the Murderbot books, I think, and that seems like something I'd like. (I say "book" but I think maybe they're novellas?) I also saw some recommendations from the Expanse guys about "spaceship" SF, which might be interesting!

Sunday
I don't know that I have much to say. I finished the romance novel. (The one guy did commit suicide, the other guy did egg him on, but this is something that happened several years in the past, in the book, and the protagonists agree that there's not going to be a way to punish the egger-on, and they move on. A lot of Mary Balogh books seem to be about getting past the traumas that happened in your past.)

Meanwhile, I'm back to slogging through Cibola Burn. I'm to the part where there's a huge apocalyptic event on the other side of the planet Holden and Amos are on, and it seems for a while like everybody's absolutely going to die, but actually most of them don't, in the end. This book has now been done by the TV series, too. We watched one episode (of the 4th season, that is) and Rob seemed interested but we haven't come back to it. I guess I'll go finish it on my own, at some point. Rob and I tend to have difficulty coordinating on TV shows sometimes. Anyway, I will get through this book eventually. Possibly with another romance novel going in parallel!

melreads: text: "I think the sub-text here is rapidly becoming text." (subtext)
Spoilers always possible here!

Tuesday, July 21, 2020
These books (meaning the Expanse series) are really "boy" books, in a way. Lots of violence, I prefer my action without a whole lot of actual killing, but I'm not likely to get that wish unless I go back to reading romance novels. Even "girl" books usually have some violence. Heck, even romance novels often have some level of violence. Often there's a little murder mystery, or a violent suitor or something like that.

(Later) I was trying to remember one romance where an evil guy deliberately eggs somebody on to kill themself. - It took me a while to figure it out, but i think it's The Proposal - or at least one of the books in that series, a Mary Balogh series where all the protagonists were in the Napoleonic wars and all of them are traumatized. The maybe-suicide that I was thinking about was the heroine's late husband.

(Even later, continuing the thought) To say "maybe-suicide" is not fair to the evil guy. It was a suicide - the guy jumped off a balcony. It's just that the guy who could have been trying to dissuade him, didn't. (And he stood to inherit, so there's definitely motive there.) I've actually started re-reading this now, did I say that? I need an antidote between doses of Expanse, anyway.

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