This is a blog post about The Rings of Power Seasons 1 and 2. It contains spoilers. My rewatch of Alloyed (season 1) over the weekend brought some thoughts about the idea of an alloy as a metaphor for the ways in which characters were manipulated by Sauron in the series. In episode one of … Continue reading Postal Modern Theatrette 15/10/2024: (Im)Purities
This is a blog post about The Rings of Power Season 2. It contains spoilers. There is a scene in the first episode of the second season of The Rings of Power that still haunts me. It happens after Sauron has reconstituted himself as Halbrand (and what a glorious manifestation of the abject that entire … Continue reading Postal Modern Theatrette 13/10/2024: The Decision to Do Good
Been awhile. I’ve been reading a lot for the new MA courses I’ve been teaching as well as for my research matters. I’ll share a fraction of these: More posts on this blog soon-ish. Continue reading What I’m Currently Reading 16/04/2024
Got a fair bit of reading done since the last post, most of which are for the articles I’ve been co-writing and editing. I’ve streamlined (even further) many components of my life to focus on that. Here’s what I finished reading (apart from the stacks of theory-related monographs I’m keeping off this list): And here’s … Continue reading What I’m Currently Reading 23/09/2023
So far, I have not been able to meet my yearly reading goals since the pandemic started. It’s a mixture of increased teaching/supervision workload, life being a pain in the you-know-what and the fact that I’m learning music and languages. So, I don’t beat myself up about it too much. Traditionally I read more between … Continue reading What I’m Currently Reading 05/08/2023
Been some time since I’ve updated this blog! In the past four months I’ve been reading quite a lot but have not finished that many books, which is what happens when you read multiple books at once. And that’s it for now! I regret I cannot do the short story picks this year because this … Continue reading What I’m Currently Reading 03/06/2023
I’m starting 2023 strong by reading a gratifying amount of books. The highlights thusfar are Shveta Thakrar’s Star Daughter, Angela Slatter’s The Bone Lantern (this glorious author gifted me a small parcel of her books as a get-well present and I feel so very lucky indeed!). Run, do not walk to get The Bone Lantern … Continue reading What I’m Currently Reading 12/02/2023
I actually have 11 fiction books in my current reading list now (not even bothering to count monographs and academic collections plus articles). More than half of those are for research articles I am writing. As for the other half: And that’s about it for now. My TBR list both physical and electronic is quite … Continue reading What I’m Currently Reading 11/10/2022
As I try to catch up on several months worth of short fiction reading, I’ve encountered so many gems. Here are my favourites for July! Continue reading Short Fiction I Enjoyed from July 2022