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nightdog_barks1) Ugh, I am so tired today, which is what usually happens when I take Benadryl the night before, but on the other hand, Benadryl is helping my sinuses cope with what has been a TERRIBLE allergy season here so there's that.
2) Finished Marina and Sergey Dyachenko's Vita Nostra and really liked it, although I will totally confess I am still not 100% sure about wtf actually happened or even what was going on. I mean ... I think I can hazard a guess, but a guess would be all it is. If you liked Lev Grossman's The Magicians, you'd probably like this. It has basically the same framework -- young people are sent to a Mysterious Place of Learning to study magic, but in the case of Vita Nostra, is it really magic, or just a new way of seeing? A lot of questions never get answered, but oddly enough, I was okay with that because I was too busy being swept along by events. I honestly thought the Goodreads reviewer Rincey said it best with her one-line summation: This book is like Harry Potter, but if it was written by Kafka. :D
3) Anyway, now reading Geoffrey C. Ward's A Disposition to Be Rich, which is a biography of Ferdinand Ward, the Bernie Madoff swindler/con man of the Gilded Age, who also happens to be the author's great-grandfather. Very good so far.
2) Finished Marina and Sergey Dyachenko's Vita Nostra and really liked it, although I will totally confess I am still not 100% sure about wtf actually happened or even what was going on. I mean ... I think I can hazard a guess, but a guess would be all it is. If you liked Lev Grossman's The Magicians, you'd probably like this. It has basically the same framework -- young people are sent to a Mysterious Place of Learning to study magic, but in the case of Vita Nostra, is it really magic, or just a new way of seeing? A lot of questions never get answered, but oddly enough, I was okay with that because I was too busy being swept along by events. I honestly thought the Goodreads reviewer Rincey said it best with her one-line summation: This book is like Harry Potter, but if it was written by Kafka. :D
3) Anyway, now reading Geoffrey C. Ward's A Disposition to Be Rich, which is a biography of Ferdinand Ward, the Bernie Madoff swindler/con man of the Gilded Age, who also happens to be the author's great-grandfather. Very good so far.