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Matches 2 and 3 are gonna break my heart, no matter who wins.
Man I really thought this judge would go the other way!
Ah, I'm so sad The Sentence is officially out of the zombie running! Sigh. It's fine. Let's go Trees!
Amy wrote: "Man I really thought this judge would go the other way!"Amy, I've noted that you pretty consistently seem (here) to not favor The Trees; or perhaps you just really loved Matrix. I'm curious about your basis?
No One is Talking About This vs When we Cease to Understand the World: https://themorningnews.org/tob/2022/n...
Hi Phyllis - while I admired the work, the mash-up of slapstick with horror/revenge fantasy really didn’t work for me. I don’t mind either by themselves (though I have a limit to my tolerance of the former) but together it just really hit the wrong note. And the ending felt very (purposefully) messy in a way that my brain couldn’t just let be.
Really on the all-time shortlist for best judgments and commentary was fantastic today as well. What a blessed ToB day. RIP to my favorite though.
Kip wrote: "Really on the all-time shortlist for best judgments and commentary was fantastic today as well. What a blessed ToB day. RIP to my favorite though."I agree! I wrote this in the commentariat, but I feel like this year we've had the best judgments we've ever seen, and this was my absolute favorite. (For anyone who hasn't read Headley's The Mere Wife, I recommend it so highly, it was brilliant.)
Elizabeth wrote: "(For anyone who hasn't read Headley's The Mere Wife..."adding it to the list w/the TOB rec tag! :) (but also because she just seems great and so so smart!)
Tomorrow's QF includes our last 3rd & 4th seed books left in the tourney... which means the only real chances for decent upset points in the brackets competition! Opening Rounds saw a lot of upsets but QF winners so far are all 1st and 2nd seeds.
Thanks, Kip. It was a great ego-boost to be complimented on my commentary, but the real star was that judgment! I'll certainly be checking out Maria Dahvana Headley's Beowulf: A New Translation and its modern retelling The Mere Wife.
Shout out to Heather C, who is stomping us all into the ground in the brackets competition. Heather C has called it right in 10 of the 13 rounds so far. I am in awe, particularly as this was a year when everyone's predictions were all over the boards.
Phyllis wrote: "Shout out to Heather C, who is stomping us all into the ground in the brackets competition. Heather C has called it right in 10 of the 13 rounds so far. I am in awe, particularly as this was a year..."Wow, congrats, Heather!
Amy wrote: "Hi Phyllis - while I admired the work, the mash-up of slapstick with horror/revenge fantasy really didn’t work for me. I don’t mind either by themselves (though I have a limit to my tolerance of th..."Thank you, Amy. I suspect a lot of readers have a similar response. I rarely ever get the laugh out of slapstick, and in fact most comedy rarely works for me. I was surprised that I could appreciate it in this novel, yet I think it was what made the overall telling something I could take in.
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Beowulf (other topics)The Mere Wife (other topics)
The Echo Wife (other topics)
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QF1: In Concrete vs. Intimacies
QF2: Matrix vs. The Trees
QF3: No One is Talking About This vs. When We Cease to Understand the World
QF4: Nervous System vs. The Echo Wife