Fuzzy Day

[rolanni]

Sigh. I was sorta sick on Friday, but managed to Ignore it away. Today, it brought in the heavy guns. Two hour nap with Hexapuma, who is apparently on Medic Duty, and I'm tending toward feeling human. Hope it sticks.

Since I wasn't feeling good anyway, I caught up some fun stuff like balancing the checkbooks, typing up bookstore invoices, and trying again to access the new accountant's website, where I'm told there are Many Goodies awaiting me. Eh, not so much. I can find the Help files for the Goodies, but not themselves. I suspect I need to be looking with Special Eyes, or have pop-up suppression disengaged, or something. Have written for instructions.

In between the fun stuff, I printed out a reading copy of Mouse and Dragon. Always cool to read a cold manuscript and find out what we wrote.

I've also been doodling around with the Goodreads page, trying to make the place presentable. Added one of the video interviews we did with Buzzy Multimedia at Stellarcon, earlier this year. This segment, if I remember correctly, is about collaboration.

I've also been adding books. Up to 70 on the shelf. I had to hard-enter Masque World, since Goodreads had never heard of it (I'm shocked, shocked!), but declined to recommend it to my friends. What do y'all think, would you rather get a book recommendation on Goodreads on not?

In the course of my adding things in, Goodreads was also pleased to tell me that none of my friends have read War for the Oaks by Emma Bull, which truly is shocking. Go, go! Find this book and read it! One of my favorites of all time, and I have far better taste in books than I do in cinema.

I have postcards here to send to the last folks outstanding on the Epic Address Verification for Fledgling. I could do that tonight, I guess, or I could, yanno, file. But...I'm not gonna. Instead, I'm gonna find Steve and see if he'll collaborate on a viewing of the last Brisco County Jr. disc, which arrived in-house yesterday.

Tomorrow, I note, is Monday.

Comments

I live on LibraryThing, not Goodreads

[romsfuulynn.livejournal.com]

I did put the new Diana Gabaldon up in Goodreads.

But even though I do own Masque World, (the original) LibraryThing doesn't know I do (I have about 1/3 of my library in) I do have the more recently purchased omnibus electronic volume "New Celebrations" in my LibraryThing. (If I had time, I should note that it includes the volumes.)

LibraryThing does know about Masque World
http://www.librarything.com/work/199314

Re: I live on LibraryThing, not Goodreads

[ariaflame.livejournal.com]

Also mostly a librarythinger. I have a goodreads account theoretically for my bookclub, however my bookclub appears to have collapsed.

[mardott.livejournal.com]

I've read War for the Oaks. Loved it. Absolutely. But I guess I didn't 'friend' you on Goodreads - I was 'following' you.

I'm of an age (ahem) where I need to really pay attention on these networking sites.

I have remedied the situation and sent you a friend request. So you'll have at least one friend who has read Emma Bull.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

I'm a little fuzzy on the difference between friending, following, and fanning, myself. Doubtless, All Will Become Clear, in time...

[(Anonymous)]

I fully concur on War for the Oaks. It one of those from which whole scenes pop into my head at random. Love that book.

[redpimpernel.livejournal.com]

I certainly would like to get book recs from GoodReads. Or here. I've added War for the Oaks & Masque World to my to read shelf, I'll have to keep an eye out at used book stores to actually read them though.

Hope you feel better, soon.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

I should in all conscience say that Masque World is the "third" and, sadly, last, book in the Anthony Villiers series*. (There were supposed to have been more, but Alexei burned out, or Ace went chicken or -- too much scuttlebutt under the bridge to remember the particulars at this point). I don't say that it won't make sense without the other two (none of them particularly make sense, but that's OK); I will say that Masque World is, IMHO, the weakest of the three -- and that's even admitting that the game of Wonders and Marvels has warped my worldview forever.

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*Star Well, The Thurb Revolution, Masque World

[victorthecook.livejournal.com]

I've loved all three Villiers books since Tom Whitmore pulled them off the used-books shelf and pressed them into my hands many years ago. If I had to pick, I'd say I like _The Thurb Revolution_ best of the three -- but I'd hate to be forced to pick.

So what do you think of _Rite of Passage_, while we're spotlighting Panshin?

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

So what do you think of _Rite of Passage_, while we're spotlighting Panshin?

Honestly? I prefer the Villiers books. This probably says something Very Bad about my Literary Values(tm).

Rite of Passage wasn't a bad book; I read it during the years I was a reading Hoover, and I liked it OK, but even then, it was...a thought too earnest and a lot too preachy for my taste. I don't dare pick it up now.

One of the sadder reading-related things that happened to me in the last year or two was The Butterfly Kid by Chester Anderson, which I adored and read often. I picked it up with fond anticipation a while back, and -- couldn't get through it. The snarkiness I had so loved seemed...mean-spirited and spiteful. It was, as I say, sad. Better I had left it on the shelf.