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 Finished reading The Likeness by Tana French today. It was very readable despite the frankly ludicrous premise. Very well done to get the reader to lay that aside and go for the ride anyway. I bought a set of French's books on recommendation from the interwebz, so I'm glad I'm enjoying them. The detective in this one was a main character in the previous book In the Woods, but got the narrative voice this time. 

We've been watching The Glory, a k-drama on Netflix, and we finished that a couple of days ago. It was quite slow-moving, but absorbing and featured one of the stars from The Uncanny Counter. It was a very different beast to that tho! It's interesting seeing these shows and trying to figure out the cultural background, and I'm aware I'm missing a lot of nuance. Violence in schools seems a big issue over there - or maybe it's the shows we're picking - or maybe it's the shows Netflix is picking. 

And I watched the Red Turtle, a Studio Ghibli animation I hadn't seen before. It was a fable that felt quite predictable, or perhaps familiar is a better word for it, but it was engaging. There's no dialogue, although the sounds of nature are important - the sudden silence of the birds/the forest itself giving warnings and so on. It was thoughtful and I enjoyed it.