Current
Kings of the North, by Cecelia Holland
AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers, ed. Nnedi Okorafor
Tolstoy, by Henri Troyat
Next books
Angels & Visitations: A Miscellany, by Neil Gaiman
Alexander the Great: The Hunt for a New Past, by Paul Cartledge
Short Trips: The History of Christmas, ed. Simon Guerrier
Books acquired in last week
The Past Through Tomorrow, by Robert A. Heinlein
The Illustrated Man, by Ray Bradbury
Who Killed Kennedy: The Shocking Secret Linking a Time Lord and a President, by James Stevens
Aurora: Beyond Equality, eds. Vonda N. McIntyre and Susan Janice Anderson
Fools, by Pat Cadigan
The Harem Of Aman Akbar, by Elizabeth Scarborough
Hex, by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
Doctor Who: 365 Days of Memorable Moments and Impossible Things, by Justin Richards
Doctor Who: the Time Lord Letters, by Justin Richards
P.I.G.S., by Cecilia Valagussa
I must be the anti- because “Amy’s Choice” and “The Lodger” were my favourites, while I found “The Hungry Earth”/”Cold Blood” dull. Not awful, just a bit slow-moving and unambitious. It’s like a Pertwee story with modern production values—but production values are not the only things that have changed since 1970. (Neve McIntosh did a super job of acting through all those prosthetics, though—they were right to bring her back.)
“Vincent and the Doctor” had a magnificent performance from Tony Curran, but the heart-warming scenes at the end felt very hollow in the knowledge that Vincent killed himself less than two months after painting the church at Auvers. A limitation of the celebrity historical format, I suppose.