This month, I've prioritised my studies so much, I've sadly not got as much reading or listening as I'd have wanted. But there is stuff to review still...
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Books
Just the one book this month, and it's a short one - White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
I've read Dostoevsky before - I enjoyed Notes from Underground when I read it a few years ago, for some reason reading about a man complaining all the time was strangely fascinating. I thought White Nights could be similar - an almost existential discussion about life - but it didn't end up being that.
It's more a short story than a novel, coming in at just under fifty pages long. It's about a man and a woman who end up spending a few nights together, just talking with each other about love and various philosophical ideas surrounding love, and that's pretty much it. From memory, I don't remember there being a plot per se, more just Dostoevsky waxing lyrical about love through the two characters, and the book itself doesn't actually go anywhere. Spoiler, but they don't get together in the end - the woman was in love with someone the whole time, who hadn't shown up before, then that person arrived and they got together. The fact I can summarise it like this concerns me a bit - either I didn't get the point, or it really was almost surface-level.
Dostoevsky's a great writer, but this wasn't it for me.
Music
There hasn't been much on the album front either. When I've been listening to something, it's usually been whilst I study, so I don't have much to review on that front. The only real album I've listened to is Ricochet by Snail Mail, who's a solo indie artist. This is her third album, and Ricochet was my first taste of her music.
It was alright...nothing spectacular, in my opinion. Most of the songs are dreamy jangly pieces, with the odd ornate strings, but in the end they all seemed to blend into one another, with no real standouts. It's 41 minutes of a soft blanket you can sink in, and struggle to get out of.
TV
I'm still watching Twin Peaks - I'm midway through the second season, so again, don't spoil anything. It's alright, I guess...it's very strange, with plenty of odd twists you wouldn't have seen coming, and now the supernatural are getting involved. That was what I was expecting, obviously, but from the start of the first season, I was bracing myself for a standard, if odd, detective story, and I am a bit disappointed it's now more fantastical than that. But I loved the first season, the finale was great. Just not entirely convinced I'll enjoy the rest of the show as much.
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