Saturday Eve
News For Today
Well, the dollhouse is now down one human occupant, which means there will be more times that I have the house to myself, which is often nice.
When I finish and post chapter 476 today, that will be three chapters in one week, and they aren't even drastically shortened... one of them approached 4,000 words.
Personal Assessment
My back's been acting up since just before I laid down last night. I had a little bit of cruddy build up in my throat when I woke up. I slept fine, but don't remember any dreams.
Random link for the day.
The Onion AV Club's best books of 2010, where Jason Heller named The Habitation of the Blessed by Catherynne M. Valente.
Heller writes:
Tucked between her 2009 triumph Palimpsest-a kaleidoscopic fantasy about a sexually transmitted city-and her upcoming Stalinist folktale Deathless, Catherynne M. Valente quietly released a radically ambitious novel: The Habitation Of The Blessed, the first installment of a trilogy dubbed A Dirge For Prester John. As advertised, Habitation exhumes the medieval legend of Prester John, the apocryphal shepherd of a lost Christian tribe in the Orient. But as with Valente’s previous myth-spinning, she dissolves and reassembles the legend, drenching it in rich, shimmering prose and scholarly fantasy. Echoing between the 12th and 18th centuries, the tale exalts and humanizes John while casting him and his haunted quest for the divine against an epic backdrop of spirituality, historiography, monsters, magic, and Valente’s singularly blistering imagism. And things are just getting started.
Plans For The Day
Finish and post chapter 476, ring in the new year.
Well, the dollhouse is now down one human occupant, which means there will be more times that I have the house to myself, which is often nice.
When I finish and post chapter 476 today, that will be three chapters in one week, and they aren't even drastically shortened... one of them approached 4,000 words.
Personal Assessment
My back's been acting up since just before I laid down last night. I had a little bit of cruddy build up in my throat when I woke up. I slept fine, but don't remember any dreams.
Random link for the day.
The Onion AV Club's best books of 2010, where Jason Heller named The Habitation of the Blessed by Catherynne M. Valente.
Heller writes:
Tucked between her 2009 triumph Palimpsest-a kaleidoscopic fantasy about a sexually transmitted city-and her upcoming Stalinist folktale Deathless, Catherynne M. Valente quietly released a radically ambitious novel: The Habitation Of The Blessed, the first installment of a trilogy dubbed A Dirge For Prester John. As advertised, Habitation exhumes the medieval legend of Prester John, the apocryphal shepherd of a lost Christian tribe in the Orient. But as with Valente’s previous myth-spinning, she dissolves and reassembles the legend, drenching it in rich, shimmering prose and scholarly fantasy. Echoing between the 12th and 18th centuries, the tale exalts and humanizes John while casting him and his haunted quest for the divine against an epic backdrop of spirituality, historiography, monsters, magic, and Valente’s singularly blistering imagism. And things are just getting started.
Plans For The Day
Finish and post chapter 476, ring in the new year.