This Year 365 songs: February 7th

Today we have Snow Crush Killing Song

 

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We are in a stretch where the annotations are sort of short, and I often don't have a lot to say.  Today's annotations are about the approach to narrative structure for this album, but I feel like I'd mostly be repeating myself to include my thoughts on this.

This is a nice sombre song, though. And I am shocked still by how much Mountain Goats I haven't heard before.

Semiosis (Sue Burke)

I can't really tell if I liked this book or not. Parts of the world-building felt underdeveloped or under-explored, and I never really felt like Stevland was as alien of an intellect as the premise suggested he was supposed to be.  I think I might have preferred a narrower slice of time, with more depth, where a lot of the other details are conveyed because they are part of the collective history of the people in the story, but that would be a very very different structure for the book.

I think this book is about and raises a lot of interesting questions, but I'm not super satisfied with the way those questions were explored (it is not an enraging miss on its premise, the way Mysterium was, though).