and again books
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jazzfishI do things other than consume media but honestly they're not that interesting, at least not to me. Stupid plague.
That's not entirely true. Erin and I visited the town of Smithers over the weekend. It's a pleasant place about four hours west of here, population 5000 and another 5000 outside the city limits, a walkable downtown and a game store and two sushi restaurants and plenty of other stuff, all of which was closed. Oh well.
We did hike out to see a couple of very pretty glacier-fed waterfalls on Monday morning. We started out in the middle of a cloud that was creeping its way up the valley, so that you stared across the stream at a grey sky that was a little less grey right above you, and gradually you realised that you were staring at a mountain, with water pouring down it. Lovely. Perhaps next time we'll take the much longer & more difficult hike up to the actual glacier.
What are you reading?
Nth reread of Susan Cooper's dreamlike Seaward, because I need a transition after finishing Strange & Norrell. I wonder if it will make any more sense this time, or if it really is just a collection of fairytale images. I love it either way.
What did you just finish reading?
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. Such a wonderful book. I'm embarrassed that it took me fifteen years to get to a second read. It is long, and physically awkward, and I can't rush through it... but it's so, so worth it.
Ebook, Hambly's The Silicon Mage. Bits kept coming back to me as I read: the general arc of the book, the trip from the Citadel to Angelshand and back again; Caris and Pella and the Regent; the plague rose; the denouement ("It was the Dead God who saved me"). But somehow I'd completely blanked out the actual climax, the confrontation with Suraklin. Odd. I spent that entire two chapters thinking "Caris deserved better," and my irritation was only somewhat mollified by Antryg returning him to life.
What do you think you're going to read next?
Reread of Gideon the Ninth and then on to Harrow, because Sarah's been after me to read Harrow so she can talk to me about it. After that, /finally/ The Baron of Magister Valley.
That's not entirely true. Erin and I visited the town of Smithers over the weekend. It's a pleasant place about four hours west of here, population 5000 and another 5000 outside the city limits, a walkable downtown and a game store and two sushi restaurants and plenty of other stuff, all of which was closed. Oh well.
We did hike out to see a couple of very pretty glacier-fed waterfalls on Monday morning. We started out in the middle of a cloud that was creeping its way up the valley, so that you stared across the stream at a grey sky that was a little less grey right above you, and gradually you realised that you were staring at a mountain, with water pouring down it. Lovely. Perhaps next time we'll take the much longer & more difficult hike up to the actual glacier.
What are you reading?
Nth reread of Susan Cooper's dreamlike Seaward, because I need a transition after finishing Strange & Norrell. I wonder if it will make any more sense this time, or if it really is just a collection of fairytale images. I love it either way.
What did you just finish reading?
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. Such a wonderful book. I'm embarrassed that it took me fifteen years to get to a second read. It is long, and physically awkward, and I can't rush through it... but it's so, so worth it.
Ebook, Hambly's The Silicon Mage. Bits kept coming back to me as I read: the general arc of the book, the trip from the Citadel to Angelshand and back again; Caris and Pella and the Regent; the plague rose; the denouement ("It was the Dead God who saved me"). But somehow I'd completely blanked out the actual climax, the confrontation with Suraklin. Odd. I spent that entire two chapters thinking "Caris deserved better," and my irritation was only somewhat mollified by Antryg returning him to life.
What do you think you're going to read next?
Reread of Gideon the Ninth and then on to Harrow, because Sarah's been after me to read Harrow so she can talk to me about it. After that, /finally/ The Baron of Magister Valley.
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