argh.
Today is the Mondayest of Mondays.
Death sucks. Also menopause sucks. And moving offices sucks. And stupid-ass bureaucratic bullshit sucks. ::snarl::
In light of that, have an athletic Boston terrier.
In other news, I read Kate Elliott's Black Wolves yesterday, and anyone who likes GRRM and isn't reading Elliott is LOSING OUT. Everything I read by Elliott just gets better, and I hadn't thought she could do better than the Crossroads trilogy. Turns out I was wrong: Black Wolves is even better. More complex, more clear, more engaging characters caught up in an epic religious and political conflict with no easy answers (or possibly no answers at all). Family loyalties, political and religious ideologies, ethnic tensions, and economic constraints are all implicated and stressed to the breaking point.
Plus, swordfights and GIANT EAGLES and kickass older women (and men!) and young love and science and secret societies and and and! So great. Cannot wait for the next one, which sadly is not out yet. I will salve my longing by rereading the Crossroads Trilogy (which is set in the same world but some years before: you don't have to have read it to read Black Wolves, but it won't hurt).
(I do feel better now than I did when I drafted this: two hours of singing and a glass of scotch with ginger simple syrup and lime helps immensely. And now to bed...)
Crossposted from DW, where there are
comments; comment here or there.
Death sucks. Also menopause sucks. And moving offices sucks. And stupid-ass bureaucratic bullshit sucks. ::snarl::
In light of that, have an athletic Boston terrier.
In other news, I read Kate Elliott's Black Wolves yesterday, and anyone who likes GRRM and isn't reading Elliott is LOSING OUT. Everything I read by Elliott just gets better, and I hadn't thought she could do better than the Crossroads trilogy. Turns out I was wrong: Black Wolves is even better. More complex, more clear, more engaging characters caught up in an epic religious and political conflict with no easy answers (or possibly no answers at all). Family loyalties, political and religious ideologies, ethnic tensions, and economic constraints are all implicated and stressed to the breaking point.
Plus, swordfights and GIANT EAGLES and kickass older women (and men!) and young love and science and secret societies and and and! So great. Cannot wait for the next one, which sadly is not out yet. I will salve my longing by rereading the Crossroads Trilogy (which is set in the same world but some years before: you don't have to have read it to read Black Wolves, but it won't hurt).
(I do feel better now than I did when I drafted this: two hours of singing and a glass of scotch with ginger simple syrup and lime helps immensely. And now to bed...)
Crossposted from DW, where there are
comments; comment here or there.