I thought that she couldn't blow me more away than in The Telling and Left Hand of Darkness, I was wrong.

The Dispossessed?
Awesome, just awesome.
Here's the beginning:

There was a wall. It did not look important. It was built of uncut rocks roughly mortared. An adult could look right over it, and even a child could climb it. Where it crossed ( Read more... )

End 2008 -  Books I've read in the last part of the year

Most of the comments are just for me, to know what they're about and in case I would want to reread any of them.

Book List

Butcher, Jim - Furies of Caledron
Butcher, Jim - Academ's Fury
Butcher, Jim - Cursor's Fury
Butcher, Jim - Captain's Fury
Butcher, Jim - Princep's Fury

Gilman, Laura Anne - ( Read more... )

Today, I tired to write a short piece without adjectives or adverbs as an exercise. It hurt my brain ( Read more... )

I wondered during the trip home if it was good news or bad news that would await me.

My Labrador has been sick these past couple of days and he went to the vet again today. Hopefully - as I am in the train writing this and skiving on Nanowrimo *shock* - he’s well and the vet finally knows what’s wrong with him. My dad and his humor (^_^) suggested ( Read more... )

 
I have a mitigated response to this book.

I really liked the idea of horse gods. Unfortunately, the background to this world, its history and its magic lacked details. 
Since I didn't understand the world-building, I found some of what happened inconsistent. For example:
If the stallions are gods - why do they have to wear bridle and saddle? Go ( Read more... )

I just read a review (SPOILERS for Last Argument of Kings, third book)  on amazon.co.uk which confirms my theories on how the First Law trilogy (Joe Abercrombie) ends.

And I've only read 77 pages into The Blade Itself, the first book. This is utterly depressing.

ETA: It's also the mark of a good writer: what was promised in the beginning happens at ( Read more... )

My heart is sore pained within me:
and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
Fear and trembling have seized me:
and darkness has overwhelmed me.

And I said: o that I had wings like a dove!
For them I would fly away and be at rest.

Lo, would I flee far away,
and live in the wilderness.

I would wait for him who will save me
from my cowardice and from ( Read more... )

You tortured him. You completely destroyed him.
And should I have? should I have made it more comfortable for him?

++++

I was looking forward to a book written by Pratchett and Gaiman. I enjoy Pratchett's wacky humor and Gaiman's writing.
Unfortunately, this book went nowhere near the expectations I had of it and the hype that surrounded it. This, in ( Read more... )

So, I saw that Cassie's book was up for the Locus Award (you can nominate any book out in 2007 here) while I was there nominating Rothfuss' Name of the Wind (more about the novel later).  My first thought was hell no. My second was that if she won over Name of the Wind, I was seriously gonna hit something.
Then I calmed down, took a deep breath and ( Read more... )

Tinsel Town : strangely compelling. A British soap opera.  The link leads to a 13 parts focusing on two characters of the soap.

I love the music Requiem for a Dream (Remix). It's a nice flow to write to.  It can be fond here: as an FMA AMV or with a fanvid trailer of SG-1. The SG-1 is purer, FMA has Ed talking and a mini intro with another piece of ( Read more... )