It turns out that did *not* click through on my previous entry about Supernatural, so I am standing up to say that I maligned her with all that silliness, and my hat is off to her for not clicking through. “I am spoilerphobic,” she said, in righteous injury. “I belong to a spoiler-free Supernatural community on LJ which I have not read for the past year JUST IN CASE.” That’s okay. It was funny anyway. :) But now she has seen all of s5 SPN, so now I will post…
picoreview: Tamara Drewe
This largely rather charming movie was apparently adapted from a graphic novel, which I’m going to have to locate and read as a comparison. But taken on its own, it’s certainly worth watching, with two or three really outstanding performances and perfectly good ones from everybody else. There was the added bonus for me that I had no idea, going in, that it was about writers, and so the opening scene of a bunch of writers at work with the various processes voiced over was unexpectedly funny. :) On one…
reading meme: day five
Day 05 – A book you hate I really do wish I could remember the book I read when I was 19, the one that made me say, “Christ, I can do better than *this*,” and sit down to write my first novel. But I honestly have no idea what it was. There are, though, some books I can make blanket “I loathed this” statements about. In fact, there are authors who fit wholesale into that category: Jack L. Chalker is one of them. And for some reason I read…
quick mileage update
The Road Home: miles to Isengard: 568.6 thinks to do tomorrow: – vacuum – pack up & send books – write a picoreview of Tamara Drewe
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.…