purplecat: Kenneth Branagh as Henry V (Shakespeare)
purplecat ([personal profile] purplecat) wrote2020-05-27 08:38 pm

Reading, Listening, Watching

Reading: The Red Men by Matthew de Abaitua. I did a workshop with Abaitua at one point as part of a Liverpool creative writing festival (with an AI theme) and he seemed like a nice guy. It's an interesting book hypothesising AI simulacra of people, only because they are data based simulacra they are not perfect. I quite like the concepts but the book is a lot more male gazey than I expected. The kind of writing you tolerate in 1960s fiction but side-eye a bit in fiction from 2007. I know an awful lot about the breasts of the very few female characters but very little about the pecs of the many male characters.

Listening: Verity Podcast back catalog.

Watching: We watched the Tennant and Tate Much Ado about Nothing which is good, but more broadly comic in some scenes I feel could have done with a lighter touch.

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