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.…
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…