Did you catch this marvelous feast for the eyes on @AmazonPrimevideo? Cause I binge watched the hell out of this one. In fact I loved it so much that now I am re-watching all six episodes to make sure I catch the few details that managed to escape my attention. .
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Although I didn’t finish the book in time, I’ve read just enough of Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman’s fantastical masterpiece to notice that the mini-series doesn’t deviate much from its source material. It actually does a great job of capturing Terry Pratchett’s odd sense of humor and Neil Gaiman’s penchant for humanizing celestial and supernatural beings. In other words it totally works cause Neil Gaiman wrote the book, the script and also happens to be the showrunner and I appreciate all of it.
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The basic premise of the series and book is that ... It’s the coming of the end of time and Crowley (the demon) and Aziraphale (the Angel) who have lived on Earth since the dawn of time are quite fond of the life they built for themselves and they are not feeling Armageddon. So they band together to prevent the coming of the Antichrist and preserve our blue planet. Everything that happens after these two forge their plan is basically batsh*t crazy to us and just another ordinary day for them.
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None other than David Tennant and Micheal Sheen could portray Crowley and Aziraphale so flawlessly. They did such a good job, even John Hamm (the archangel Gabriel) couldn’t dim their light. To my surprise they even managed to cast a convincingly cute Antichrist, which probably does not sound like a very sane observation and blasphemous at that. .
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Apart from great acting, the series is visually stunning. This is the kind of CGI that does not come particularly cheap but it also doesn't take anything away from the storytelling. Furthermore Queen’s music is all over the soundtrack (very faithful to the book) and you can’t go wrong with Queen. .
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Of course like every series this one has its flaws and pacing issues. But let’s just say that in this case the good clearly triumphed over the bad (pun intended 😉) ... and this adaptation is definitely worth your time. You’ll find more info on the series @goodomensprime.
Introducing my stack of books with #shortstories & #essays by black authors for the #OnceYouGoBlackOut challenge hosted by @reggiereads, @book_girl_magic, @absorbedinpages, @exlibrislls, @never_withouta_book, @lowelowexxoo & @thestackspod on bookstagram 😉 .
I am pleasantly surprised to find that my reading taste has slightly shifted and apart from my regular fix of fantasy & science fiction, I actually need to enrich myself with books that broaden my horizons. After 2 years of reading on purpose my brain fog attacks seem to have disappeared and I can effortlessly work my way through the most mind-boggling kind of sci-fi and challenging nonfiction material....Thank God 😒.... cause for a while I thought I was actually losing my mind. Thankfully it was the freaking Graves Disease which will never be fully under control but... at least I found a way to keep my 🧠 occupied and myself stress free & healthy.
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Anyways, off late my reading is somewhere between escapism and an occasional dose of reality to ground myself and make sense of the world. While you wouldn’t be able to tell from my total book collection, my essays and short stories book stack does represent where I am currently at in my reading journey. Ironically, the sci-fi/fantasy short stories collections featured here infuse magic and/or technology into the mundane as a way of examining modern society and more often than not these stories offer more food for thought than some of my non fiction books 🤔 .
In this stack you’ll find
📖 How Long 'til Black Future Month? - N.K. Jemisin
📖 Friday Black - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
📖 Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves - Glory Edim.
📖 The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations - Toni Morrison .
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❝A dead child, a runaway slave, a terrible secret--these are the central concerns of Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize-winning Beloved. It is the mid-1800s and as slavery looks to be coming to an end, Sethe is haunted by the violent trauma it wrought on her former enslaved life at Sweet Home, Kentucky. Her dead baby daughter, whose tombstone bears the single word, Beloved, returns as a spectre to punish her mother, but also to elicit her love. Told with heart-stopping clarity, melding horror and beauty❞
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Submitting #Beloved one of the most impressive #booktomovieadaptations to date for the #OnceYouGoBlackOut challenge hosted by @reggiereads, @book_girl_magic, @absorbedinpages, @exlibrislls, @never_withouta_book, @lowelowexxoo & @thestackspod on bookstagram 😉
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My introduction to this powerful story by Toni Morrison came by way of the movie. Very appreciative of the fact Oprah Winfrey took the time to produce and star in this otherwise underappreciated gem. Also my first introduction to an actress I still keep an eye on... Thandie Newton as Beloved.
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I got to see this adaptation on the big screen with my late aunt. My aunt always lovingly forced me to experience things without mentally preparing me for them. In this case she was totally right to spring this on me. Turns out this was a very limited screening, so in hindsight the fact that I even got to see this movie is even more special than I realized.
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From what I gather the movie is very faithful to it’s source material but fails to capture it’s complexity. I have not read the novel yet, but when it comes to the visualisation I can attest that the movie is as beautiful as it is heart-wrenching. Knowing that the novel ups the ante on the cinematic experience is the main reason for my procrastination. The movie left me very very shook...and I really have to mentally prepare for the ways in which this novel might effect me. .
However, all the aforementioned didn't stop me from acquiring a very special @foliosociety edition of Beloved. Simply because I know in my heart that once I have read the book, I will re-read this masterpiece for years to come ❤️
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