The Hound of the Baskervilles
Neil Brand's fully-scored adaptation for orchestra and actors, which was first staged in December 2022, broadcast on radio in February, and finally aired on BBC Four on Christmas Day 2023. I enjoyed it a lot on radio (the Brand intro I mention in the above link sadly wasn't included on TV, though you can find it on YouTube) and enjoyed it again with visuals... not that they add a lot, considering it's a staged reading, but actors are actors and can't help inject at least some physicality. I also wrote more about it on Letterboxd.
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
Monday 8 January 2024
Fiction
The Spider-Queen by Austin McConnell & Elizabeth McIvor
Chapters 2–3
Some books have long chapters; some books have short chapters; and this book has long chapters that should be short chapters. "***" has its uses to mark a passage of time or change of scene or whatever, but here it's too often used when a new chapter would feel appropriate. (I guess there are no rules about these things, it's just a personal feeling about pace or structure or whatever, but still, that's how I feel about it.)
Chapters 2–3
Some books have long chapters; some books have short chapters; and this book has long chapters that should be short chapters. "***" has its uses to mark a passage of time or change of scene or whatever, but here it's too often used when a new chapter would feel appropriate. (I guess there are no rules about these things, it's just a personal feeling about pace or structure or whatever, but still, that's how I feel about it.)
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