1594 - "It wouldn't do to make things up. This is fiction, not a lie."
Yesterday was good. We had dinner at some pub place with the "best international beer selection in Canada." and if this is true, Canada is a pretty pathetic place. Most of their "unusual" stuff was in bottles and the on tap was the usual selection of national brand crap and Granville Island. I did try something I hadn't before that I'd been meaning to, but even that I could have just bought at the local liquor store.
They did have some stouts/porters that weren't Guinness which is unusual.
I miss Portland.
Then we went to True Confections and stuffed myself full of Grand Marnier-Orange-Chocolate cake. Then we came home.
Books!
Finished Un Lun Dun by China Mieville.
I think I prefer his adult stuff more since he goes way hard on the bleakness then, but this was really good. Good stuff about prophecy-predicted heroes and what happens when the prophecy is wrong. I got this copy from the library, but I've got one coming in at the bookstore.
Almost finished Voice of the Fire by Alan Moore. I really enjoyed this one too although I do think that Moore works better in graphic format. This was a series of interconnecting stories set in Moore's hometown of Northhampton moving through time, ending with a first-person chapter from the POV of Moore himself.
(As much as I try to avoid relevance, the quote on this entry is from the book.)
Next up:
Temple of the Golden Pavillion by Yukio Mishima and A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin.
They did have some stouts/porters that weren't Guinness which is unusual.
I miss Portland.
Then we went to True Confections and stuffed myself full of Grand Marnier-Orange-Chocolate cake. Then we came home.
Books!
Finished Un Lun Dun by China Mieville.
I think I prefer his adult stuff more since he goes way hard on the bleakness then, but this was really good. Good stuff about prophecy-predicted heroes and what happens when the prophecy is wrong. I got this copy from the library, but I've got one coming in at the bookstore.
Almost finished Voice of the Fire by Alan Moore. I really enjoyed this one too although I do think that Moore works better in graphic format. This was a series of interconnecting stories set in Moore's hometown of Northhampton moving through time, ending with a first-person chapter from the POV of Moore himself.
(As much as I try to avoid relevance, the quote on this entry is from the book.)
Next up:
Temple of the Golden Pavillion by Yukio Mishima and A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin.