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Logocentric (adj). Regarding words and language as a fundamental expression of an external reality (especially applied as a negative term to traditional Western thought by postmodernist critics). Sometimes I just write whatever I feel like. Other times I respond to prompts, many taken from the following places:  "The Soundtrackers Group"  "Blogging Circle of Friends " "Blog City ~ Every Blogger's Paradise" "JAFBG" "Take up Your Cross" Thanks for stopping by!  |
I'm definitely a binger of movies and television. If there's an entire season (or multiple seasons) of television, or a series of movies that I haven't watched, I will often try to get caught up all at one time so that I can experience everything together. I've gotten so used to the experience of watching something straight through, I'll often save up episodes of a show that still does weekly releases so that I can watch them all at once. The exception are shows that are episodic in nature (like police procedurals or case-of-the-week legal dramas); it's the interwoven narrative playing out over the course of a season that makes me want to consume it at my own pace and in its entirety, rather than experiencing it piecemeal and one episode at a time. The same is true of book series. For more episodic-type stories like mystery/thriller series where each book is a more or less standalone case or incident, I will often take my time to read them and will read other things in between. I really love authors like Michael Connelly, Mark Greaney, and Gregg Hurwitz, so I'll pace myself and read the books in their series a few a time, then move onto something else for a bit before returning to the next installment. But when it comes to books that are a "limited series" (like a trilogy, or the Harry Potter books, or similar), I tend to want to experience the entire narrative all at once before moving onto the next thing. Which sometimes means that I don't start big endeavors for a long time because I know that it's going to take a while to get through them. Now that Brandon Sanderson is finished with the first half of his Stormlight Archive series, I want to get into them... but with each book coming it at over a thousand pages, that's going to be quite the reading effort. Same with Stephen King's Dark Tower series, which is a 4,250-ish page investment. Those ones I'll probably have to break up with something else, if only because I'm not sure I can commit that number of hours to a single property without losing interest. The one thing that I'm definitely getting better at, though, is not being a completionist. I used to feel like if I invested time in something (especially television, which takes less time to consume than books), I had to see it through to the end. And I know a lot of shows build, so it's not uncommon to have to watch a handful of episodes before a show really hits its stride. Or, in some cases, a season or two. And while there are times where I'll power through to get to the good stuff, I'm also doing a much better job of smashing that eject button if I'm really not motivated to watch something. If it doesn't catch and hold my attention in some way, shape, or form, I'm doing a better job of just moving onto the next thing after one book in the series, an episode or two, etc. Which has saved me a lot of frustration and wasted time. |
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