itsnotmymind | Media Consumption 4/21/2024

I'm reading a booked about the creation of India and Pakistan, Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition, by Nisid Hajari. I read a lot of history books and most of them are pretty depressing, but this one I'm having a particular hard time for some reason. It deals with the different religious groups in what is now India and Pakistan in the aftermath of India being a British colony, and the violence that occurred between them.

I finally finished Fullmetal Alchemist and for graphic novels am now reading Christopher Priest's run on Black Panther. It was a present from my parents but for some reason they gave me the second volume. I did ask specifically for Priest's writing, but I think the first volume also has him as the writer. Anyway there is a lot of characters and a lot going on. I am somewhat enjoying it but probably won't seek out more when I am done with this volume.

The podcast I listen to, You're Wrong About, is doing a reading and discussion of a book called Michelle Remembers. The book is out of print, but it set off the Satanic panic in the 1980s. It tells of a woman who recovered memories in therapy of what she and the therapist concluded was child abuse by a Satanic cult. Of course it has been completely discredited, which may be why it is now out of print.

I'm watching The Midnight Club, a Mike Flanagan Netflix show that I somehow missed. I'm very intrigued by the story-within-a-story format.

Of course I'm listening to the new Taylor Swift album, The Tortured Poets Department. On a song-by-song basis I really like it, but as an album - well, that's a lot of tortured poets songs. It's a double album, so we are talking 31 songs here.