The Road Home: miles to Isengard: 568.6 thinks to do tomorrow: – vacuum – pack up & send books – write a picoreview of Tamara Drewe
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reading meme: day four
Day 04 – Your favorite book ever Ted says the answer to this is Guy Gavriel Kay’s TIGANA, and he’s probably right. I’ve read it, I don’t know, a dozen times, and it continues to work for me, which GGK either does or does not, for readers. I love its inevitability of tragedy and the moments of joy that counteract them–though largely they’re so well entwined you don’t get one without the other in that book. The doom is all *perfect*, and I just adore it. EMILY’S CLIMB, by L.M.…
New flickr set
I’ve started a new Flickr set, not of great shots or anything, but just snapshots taken around Dublin. I’ll put ’em behind the cut to spare the friends-list, but bigger versions are available as click-throughs…
reading meme: day three
Day 03 – Your favorite recent book *looks despairing* This would be easier if I’d read more than seven books this year, all of which I quite liked. I may have to go with Jack Campbell’s THE LOST FLEET: VICTORIOUS, which is the final book in the Lost Fleet series, which are military SF that do exactly what they say on the box. I have enjoyed them probably beyond their actual literary value because of that, but since there’s not much more you can ask for in books, yeah, I…
reading meme: day two
Day 02 – A book that you wish more people had read I’m not sure I have a good answer for this one. Possibly Kim Stanley Robinson’s “Science in the Capital” series, encompassing FORTY SIGNS OF RAIN, FIFTY DEGREES BELOW, and SIXTY DAYS AND COUNTING, which I find to be brilliant, thought-provoking, and exciting environmental novels. They remind me of Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” with their lyricism: they are books which should be read at least half-aloud to appreciate the rhythm of the words. They are not, I fear,…