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Books I bought the other day on the B&N run with HH:
- Gail Carriger’s Blameless (because I lost my copy, re-reading to write fic with Chinese characters and my world did not feel right with a missing book in the series)
- Gail Carriger’s Etiquette and Espionage, book 1 of the Finishing School series (I’m not as taken with this series as I am with the Parasol Protectorate… I guess because I feel putting children in an environment where lying and two-facedness is just terrible, but I must make do until the Parasol Protectorate Abroad series comes out)
- Cherie Priest’s Fiddlehead (last book of the Clockwork Century series?! Sadface!)
- Helen Oyeyemi’s Mr. Fox (never read her before, might as well read some of her now)
- Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (because I ought to read some postcolonial literature sometime)
- Essential Arabic (gotta work on some vocabulary and not let that uni year go to waste)
- That comic book with shorts from ATLA. (I read Part 3 of The Search. Blech what they did with Ursa but at least they gave her a happy ending, and she apologized for abandoning Azula and Zuko. I guess.)
The Parasol Protectorate is always a pleasure to read, although I find I have less and less patience for Alexia Maccon and her interminable need to open her damn mouth every chance she gets instead of just listening and being smart about her questions. Same goes for Conall. But Ivy! And Lyall! And Biffy! I tried fancasting for them the other week, came up with:
Ivy: Amanda Seyfried
Lyall: David Tennant
Alessandro Tarabotti: Christopher Eccleston
Akeldama: Tom Hiddleston (Tom Cruise is no longer as effete as in his IWTV days sadly)
Channing Channing of the Chesterfield Channings: Fassbender
Biffy: Either Blair Dunlop or Ben Barnes
Countess Nadasdy: Julie Walters
Floote: Jean Reno
E&E is... already showing signs of disturbing the canon set in the PP books and that always makes me cranky. I guess I have very little patience for settings which are all cutesy on the surface ~dark brooding danger underneath~ but that might also be the YA standard which I can't deal with.
I considered buying more JR Ward Black Dagger Brotherhood books and then realized how much I didn't care given that I've already given away all my BDB when I left HALIFAX.
Cleaned my office today and then went to see Frozen followed by dinner at a Japanese resto with KK. It was a pretty decent movie. I kind of... don't like Elsa's SUDDEN REVELATION at the end about how to SUDDENLY control her powers? Like, really? It felt very ham-handed. Olaf was not as terrible as I feared and Kristoff could have been drawn Saami and that Hans thing, well, I could have done without it. Meh. Whatever. It was fun for a lark.
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- Gail Carriger’s Blameless (because I lost my copy, re-reading to write fic with Chinese characters and my world did not feel right with a missing book in the series)
- Gail Carriger’s Etiquette and Espionage, book 1 of the Finishing School series (I’m not as taken with this series as I am with the Parasol Protectorate… I guess because I feel putting children in an environment where lying and two-facedness is just terrible, but I must make do until the Parasol Protectorate Abroad series comes out)
- Cherie Priest’s Fiddlehead (last book of the Clockwork Century series?! Sadface!)
- Helen Oyeyemi’s Mr. Fox (never read her before, might as well read some of her now)
- Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (because I ought to read some postcolonial literature sometime)
- Essential Arabic (gotta work on some vocabulary and not let that uni year go to waste)
- That comic book with shorts from ATLA. (I read Part 3 of The Search. Blech what they did with Ursa but at least they gave her a happy ending, and she apologized for abandoning Azula and Zuko. I guess.)
The Parasol Protectorate is always a pleasure to read, although I find I have less and less patience for Alexia Maccon and her interminable need to open her damn mouth every chance she gets instead of just listening and being smart about her questions. Same goes for Conall. But Ivy! And Lyall! And Biffy! I tried fancasting for them the other week, came up with:
Ivy: Amanda Seyfried
Lyall: David Tennant
Alessandro Tarabotti: Christopher Eccleston
Akeldama: Tom Hiddleston (Tom Cruise is no longer as effete as in his IWTV days sadly)
Channing Channing of the Chesterfield Channings: Fassbender
Biffy: Either Blair Dunlop or Ben Barnes
Countess Nadasdy: Julie Walters
Floote: Jean Reno
E&E is... already showing signs of disturbing the canon set in the PP books and that always makes me cranky. I guess I have very little patience for settings which are all cutesy on the surface ~dark brooding danger underneath~ but that might also be the YA standard which I can't deal with.
I considered buying more JR Ward Black Dagger Brotherhood books and then realized how much I didn't care given that I've already given away all my BDB when I left HALIFAX.
Cleaned my office today and then went to see Frozen followed by dinner at a Japanese resto with KK. It was a pretty decent movie. I kind of... don't like Elsa's SUDDEN REVELATION at the end about how to SUDDENLY control her powers? Like, really? It felt very ham-handed. Olaf was not as terrible as I feared and Kristoff could have been drawn Saami and that Hans thing, well, I could have done without it. Meh. Whatever. It was fun for a lark.
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