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Rainy Saturday
Saturday, June 3rd, 2006 06:48 pmI've been under the weather for the last while, and am slowly creeping toward feeling betterness. I'll be trying to post more regularly here. Management thanks everyone for their patience and understanding.
Since our last exciting installment, I've been reading. I finally finished Will in the World (Stephen Greenblatt), the most well-traveled book I've ever owned, then moved on in quick succession to Pretender (CJ Cherryh), Uglies (Scott Westerfield), Dead to the World (Charlaine Harris) and am about half done Dead as a Doornail.
I very much liked Uglies -- good worldbuilding, a believable protagonist, just the right amount of teen angst -- and I'm thinking I'm going to have to pick up Pretties. The third one, Specials is only out in hardcover at the moment, so I guess I'll have to wait.
The Sookie Stackhouse books are always great fun, though not so much that I'll buy them in hardcover, either. Ms. Harris is obviously riffing off the Anita Blake books, even unto the multiple supernatural love interests (collect them all!), but I find Sookie believable and the books thus far a hoot, while the Anita books just annoyed me.
I was trying to decide which of the non-fiction books I have in my TBR pile I'll tackle after I'm finished with ...Doornail (tough choice: The Man Behind the Iron Mask, Skeletons on the Zahara or It Happened in Maine), but -- joy! --![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
saruby's lender copies of Fruits Basket 8-13 arrived in yesterday's mail, so you know the non-fiction books are just going to have to wait a little longer...
Speaking of which,kinzel and I have been watching, courtesy of the Netflix recommendation system ("Liked Fruits Basket? Then you'll like..."), an anime series called Princess Tutu. The heroine is a duck, who is a girl, who is a sort of super-ballerina named Princess Tutu; she is trying to heal the Prince of her dreams, who suffers from a broken heart.
This is, to say the least, a Very Strange story, and oddly compelling in a completely different way than Fruits Basket. It also has a lot to say about storytelling and the process of creativity, as one of the characters is the writer who is writing the story of the Princess and the Prince with a broken heart. A great many of his machinations and motivations are familiar -- even the way he demands that his characters tell him what they're going to do. It's vaguely unsettling to experience this character from the point of view of the characters in his story. While I totally understand his need to up the ante, I want to ask him to cut Duck a little slack, here; she's only a kid...
The other thing I've been doing off and on is writing; had to tear out three chapters and rebuild them. That's done now, and tomorrow with luck I'll move on to new territory.
Progress on Carousel Tides
Since our last exciting installment, I've been reading. I finally finished Will in the World (Stephen Greenblatt), the most well-traveled book I've ever owned, then moved on in quick succession to Pretender (CJ Cherryh), Uglies (Scott Westerfield), Dead to the World (Charlaine Harris) and am about half done Dead as a Doornail.
I very much liked Uglies -- good worldbuilding, a believable protagonist, just the right amount of teen angst -- and I'm thinking I'm going to have to pick up Pretties. The third one, Specials is only out in hardcover at the moment, so I guess I'll have to wait.
The Sookie Stackhouse books are always great fun, though not so much that I'll buy them in hardcover, either. Ms. Harris is obviously riffing off the Anita Blake books, even unto the multiple supernatural love interests (collect them all!), but I find Sookie believable and the books thus far a hoot, while the Anita books just annoyed me.
I was trying to decide which of the non-fiction books I have in my TBR pile I'll tackle after I'm finished with ...Doornail (tough choice: The Man Behind the Iron Mask, Skeletons on the Zahara or It Happened in Maine), but -- joy! --
saruby's lender copies of Fruits Basket 8-13 arrived in yesterday's mail, so you know the non-fiction books are just going to have to wait a little longer...Speaking of which,
kinzel and I have been watching, courtesy of the Netflix recommendation system ("Liked Fruits Basket? Then you'll like..."), an anime series called Princess Tutu. The heroine is a duck, who is a girl, who is a sort of super-ballerina named Princess Tutu; she is trying to heal the Prince of her dreams, who suffers from a broken heart. This is, to say the least, a Very Strange story, and oddly compelling in a completely different way than Fruits Basket. It also has a lot to say about storytelling and the process of creativity, as one of the characters is the writer who is writing the story of the Princess and the Prince with a broken heart. A great many of his machinations and motivations are familiar -- even the way he demands that his characters tell him what they're going to do. It's vaguely unsettling to experience this character from the point of view of the characters in his story. While I totally understand his need to up the ante, I want to ask him to cut Duck a little slack, here; she's only a kid...
The other thing I've been doing off and on is writing; had to tear out three chapters and rebuild them. That's done now, and tomorrow with luck I'll move on to new territory.
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