Friday
1) Warm and horrifically humid. Ugh.
2) Finished The Son and really enjoyed it. The only problem I had was keeping everyone's genealogy straight. I think a lot, if not most readers will have to keep referring to the family-tree chart frontispiece. Well worth reading.
3) Read Douglas Smith's Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy. I think possibly this is the book the word "heartbreaking" was invented for. On a sidenote, the book contains some fascinating pages on the work of the American Relief Administration during the famine of 1921, clearly implying that American doctors were among the relief workers. American doctors! In Russia! I'm sure everyone can see where that might lead. Well, probably not for me, but someone could take that and run with it. ;-)
4) Started Neil Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane last night and could not put it down, which means that I'm already more than halfway through (it is a fairly short book, though). Holy wow, is it good. And fucking terrifying -- there's a scene that's on the par with some of Stephen King's best. It left me deeply shaken and made it difficult to fall asleep for a long time. (For those who have already read the book, it's the "bathtub" scene.)
5) Sorting through a rec list for fic I've recommended on my DW/LJ. It is slow going, but then pretty much everything is slow going these days. Especially when it's related to writing and/or fandom.
6) Chango's tenth birthday was July 14th. :D
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2) Finished The Son and really enjoyed it. The only problem I had was keeping everyone's genealogy straight. I think a lot, if not most readers will have to keep referring to the family-tree chart frontispiece. Well worth reading.
3) Read Douglas Smith's Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy. I think possibly this is the book the word "heartbreaking" was invented for. On a sidenote, the book contains some fascinating pages on the work of the American Relief Administration during the famine of 1921, clearly implying that American doctors were among the relief workers. American doctors! In Russia! I'm sure everyone can see where that might lead. Well, probably not for me, but someone could take that and run with it. ;-)
4) Started Neil Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane last night and could not put it down, which means that I'm already more than halfway through (it is a fairly short book, though). Holy wow, is it good. And fucking terrifying -- there's a scene that's on the par with some of Stephen King's best. It left me deeply shaken and made it difficult to fall asleep for a long time. (For those who have already read the book, it's the "bathtub" scene.)
5) Sorting through a rec list for fic I've recommended on my DW/LJ. It is slow going, but then pretty much everything is slow going these days. Especially when it's related to writing and/or fandom.
6) Chango's tenth birthday was July 14th. :D
Six things make a post.