2021 Pleasures
by Suzy McKee Charnas
Reading has been disappointing this year, but still:
The Weight of Memory by Shawn Smucker — a strange, then stranger story
with the dreamy inexplicability of fairy tales from an exotic country, mixed with
a sharp eye for grounding detail somewhere in the rural northeast. I started this
one evening, finished it at 7 a.m. the next day.
Here’s Alexander McCall Smith with a new series, and he seems to have captured
the slow civility + odd side of Nordic mystery (nothing Noir about it) with The Man with the Silver Saab, the third and newest of these stories of a Swedish
detective named Ulf Varg (“Wolf Wolf”) with a case to solve and a decision to make
about his dog’s nose.
And art — feed the eyes. Art on the web is FANTASTIC.
https://www.facebook.com/GrandArtists/photos/a.241068725964997/5662750403796775/ https://www.facebook.com/GrandArtists/photos/a.241068725964997/5788686027869878/ https://www.facebook.com/GrandArtists/photos/a.241068725964997/5921162484622231/
So is music — particularly music from films and TV. Some of this work is bloody gorgeous. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lalnGhxT3PQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WldRNFYUv9U
This one, above, let me actually hear the music without the bombast of full orchestration -- a bit of Hans Richter’s score for “Interstellar.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5URpJemLDrI And this, if you’re room for one more . . . Hope the links work!
Suzy McKee CharnasSuzy McKee Charnas is the author of the four-novel Holdfast Chronicles, The Vampire Tapestry, Stagestruck Vampires and Other Phantasms as well as several other books. She's been honored with the Hugo, Nebula, and the Otherwise Awards. Aqueduct Press published her novel, Dorothea Dreams, as part of its Heirloom Books series, and was pleased to release nine of her titles in e-book editions this fall.
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