shenanigans
hey guys! i am having such a lazy sunday! well, now I am watching the masterchef finale(guilty pleasure! also, it makes me want to cook real food) but I slept in and then stayed in bed until the pm and then stuffed around on the internet until I made myself leave the house to get something to eat(lately my body has been telling my head I am not hungry while at the same time giving me headaches and making me feel like a hypoglycemic rodney mckay and yet I am not hungry!) and went to a cafe up the road as a treat as I didn't want to make anything. at this cafe:
1) I seated myself and had to wait for a menu
2) after I got my menu and started making 'i want to order' faces I still waited and then had to tell the waitress I wanted to order; she thought I was waiting for someone. No! and she didn't ask for my drinks order!
3) my pancakes came out fast, along with my coffee, BUT NO KNIFE!
but the food was okay, so my head settled down but my stomach was still denying that it was hungry so I didn't clear my plate. got some groceries from the local IGA, called my mum and then played A LOT of echo bazaar. you guys, it is addictive and KOL-esque and awesome.
I also spent some time reading Inception fic - I have already recced a couple on my delicious. Speaking on Inception, alasen and I saw it yesterday afternoon and I really liked it. I have questions and confusion but pretty! and smart! and CONFUSING! but good! I will speak no more as not to spoil, but I only spoke twice during the movie(I judge a movie by how often I talk to the person seeing the movie with me making my own jokes to improve mst3k style!) first time was to say I'M SO CONFUSED and second was to rub 2 fingers together indicating the fact that 2 characters should make out IMMEDIATELY.
it has the meelie seal of approval!
what else? Okay, i finally started reading books again(drawback of iphone - I stopped reading my real books!) I would love to do decent book reviews but I am really bad at describing why i like books! anyway, just so I don't forget:
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations is a book by Clay Shirky - interesting! especially the comparisons of how people used to use social mediums versus how they are today(slow vs immediate) and some of the impacts of social networking and the impacts on business and people. Some examples and chapters really flowed and others really dragged I couldn;t really figure out the ebb and flow of what was working for me and what wasn't but I don't regret the read.
Power and Majesty by Tansy Rayner Roberts: book 1 in the Creature Court series. Innnnteresting! Okay, I loved the 2 books TRR published years ago, Splashdance Silver and Liquid Gold - fantasy pirates! and started reading this new book in Galaxy and had to buy it. originally I was a little dubious as the back cover seemed to imply the possibility of 2 romantic interests for the protagonist and it ended up being WAY more complicated than that - the relationships are interesting in the book, the world building is good and there is a Mysterious Character with a Tragic Past that I am already hoping will get to have a larger role in the next book. Poet! call me! you and damon from the vampire diaries are my new fave bad boys!
anyway! okay - the book is about a girl, Velody who one day sees a boy fall from the sky and the boy steals a kiss and something more that night. Years later that something returns to her, placing her in the running for the leadership(king) of a bunch of feral powerful people fighting a secret battle at night to stop the sky falling and destroying the world. The other contender for King, Ashiol, doesn't want to become a monster and promotes Velody as the leader of the creature court. Velody has to navigate a minefield where she doesn't know the rules.
I am really explaining this badly - the book is also rather polyamourous and doesn't have a straight-up romance in it(at least not yet) - relationships are complicated and not very straightforward. The creature court is very sexual(not to the uncomfortable anita blake level) and not limited to heterosexual pairings if that interests you at all.
I will be picking up the 2nd book when it is out.
What a Dragon Should Know by G.A. Aiken - picked this up at the salvos for $3 for a cheap read, and ended up enjoying it a lot more than I thought i would! it is book 3 in a series, but you dont need the knowledge of the first 2 books, but those pairings do have a major presence in the book. here is the back of book blurb: Only for those I love would I traipse into the merciless Northlands to risk life, limb, and my exquisite beauty. But do they appreciate it? Do they say, 'Gwenvael the Handsome, you are the best among us - the most loved of all dragons?' No! For centuries my family has refused to acknowledge my magnificence as well as my innate humility. Yet for them, and because I am so chivalrous, I will brave the worst this land has to offer. So here I stand, waiting to broker an alliance with the one the Northlanders call The Beast. A being so fearful, the greatest warriors will only whisper its name. Yet I, Gwenvael, will courageously face down this terrifying...woman? It turns out the Beast, a.k.a. Dagmar Reinholdt, is a woman - one with steel-gray eyes and a shocking disregard for my good looks. Beneath her plain robes and prim spectacles lies a sensual creature waiting to be unleashed. Who better than a dragon to thaw out that icy demeanor? And who better than a beast to finally tame a mighty dragon's heart?
sounds vomit-y, right! Surprisingly not! Dagmar is awesome, a liar and manipulator and politically savvy woman who has survived 2 marriages and who breeds dogs for battle to respond to her commands and likes to watch other people having sex - she is pretty awesome! Gwenveal is okay too - perhaps I am supposed to know more about him from the first 2 books, but mainly he loves to take the piss and sleep around. The book has a nice touch of humour and good banter and half decent fantasy world building(well it's a little handwave-y but not awful I am looking at you Johanna Lindsey) and quite long at 470 pages.
The Ideal Wife by Mary Balogh - so boring! the main characteristic of the hero was that he was so nice he could forgive all of the secrets his new wife(who he married when she was pretending to be a quiet mouse) keeps from him. It was like cotillion but with all the humour and drama removed. boring! disappointed as I really liked some of her other books
World War Z by Max Brooks - reread - I have been carrying around "Feed" to read for the last couple of days but couldn't get into the mood, I read a World War Z fanfic(mad_maudlins awesome gen SGA fusion, Appendix B) and decided on a re-read of World War Z since I just got my own copy recently. Still just as good, but sometimes you want more of each persons story! Yay zombies! I've also been wearing my awesome new threadless shirt "The Horde".
1) I seated myself and had to wait for a menu
2) after I got my menu and started making 'i want to order' faces I still waited and then had to tell the waitress I wanted to order; she thought I was waiting for someone. No! and she didn't ask for my drinks order!
3) my pancakes came out fast, along with my coffee, BUT NO KNIFE!
but the food was okay, so my head settled down but my stomach was still denying that it was hungry so I didn't clear my plate. got some groceries from the local IGA, called my mum and then played A LOT of echo bazaar. you guys, it is addictive and KOL-esque and awesome.
I also spent some time reading Inception fic - I have already recced a couple on my delicious. Speaking on Inception, alasen and I saw it yesterday afternoon and I really liked it. I have questions and confusion but pretty! and smart! and CONFUSING! but good! I will speak no more as not to spoil, but I only spoke twice during the movie(I judge a movie by how often I talk to the person seeing the movie with me making my own jokes to improve mst3k style!) first time was to say I'M SO CONFUSED and second was to rub 2 fingers together indicating the fact that 2 characters should make out IMMEDIATELY.
it has the meelie seal of approval!
what else? Okay, i finally started reading books again(drawback of iphone - I stopped reading my real books!) I would love to do decent book reviews but I am really bad at describing why i like books! anyway, just so I don't forget:
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations is a book by Clay Shirky - interesting! especially the comparisons of how people used to use social mediums versus how they are today(slow vs immediate) and some of the impacts of social networking and the impacts on business and people. Some examples and chapters really flowed and others really dragged I couldn;t really figure out the ebb and flow of what was working for me and what wasn't but I don't regret the read.
Power and Majesty by Tansy Rayner Roberts: book 1 in the Creature Court series. Innnnteresting! Okay, I loved the 2 books TRR published years ago, Splashdance Silver and Liquid Gold - fantasy pirates! and started reading this new book in Galaxy and had to buy it. originally I was a little dubious as the back cover seemed to imply the possibility of 2 romantic interests for the protagonist and it ended up being WAY more complicated than that - the relationships are interesting in the book, the world building is good and there is a Mysterious Character with a Tragic Past that I am already hoping will get to have a larger role in the next book. Poet! call me! you and damon from the vampire diaries are my new fave bad boys!
anyway! okay - the book is about a girl, Velody who one day sees a boy fall from the sky and the boy steals a kiss and something more that night. Years later that something returns to her, placing her in the running for the leadership(king) of a bunch of feral powerful people fighting a secret battle at night to stop the sky falling and destroying the world. The other contender for King, Ashiol, doesn't want to become a monster and promotes Velody as the leader of the creature court. Velody has to navigate a minefield where she doesn't know the rules.
I am really explaining this badly - the book is also rather polyamourous and doesn't have a straight-up romance in it(at least not yet) - relationships are complicated and not very straightforward. The creature court is very sexual(not to the uncomfortable anita blake level) and not limited to heterosexual pairings if that interests you at all.
I will be picking up the 2nd book when it is out.
What a Dragon Should Know by G.A. Aiken - picked this up at the salvos for $3 for a cheap read, and ended up enjoying it a lot more than I thought i would! it is book 3 in a series, but you dont need the knowledge of the first 2 books, but those pairings do have a major presence in the book. here is the back of book blurb: Only for those I love would I traipse into the merciless Northlands to risk life, limb, and my exquisite beauty. But do they appreciate it? Do they say, 'Gwenvael the Handsome, you are the best among us - the most loved of all dragons?' No! For centuries my family has refused to acknowledge my magnificence as well as my innate humility. Yet for them, and because I am so chivalrous, I will brave the worst this land has to offer. So here I stand, waiting to broker an alliance with the one the Northlanders call The Beast. A being so fearful, the greatest warriors will only whisper its name. Yet I, Gwenvael, will courageously face down this terrifying...woman? It turns out the Beast, a.k.a. Dagmar Reinholdt, is a woman - one with steel-gray eyes and a shocking disregard for my good looks. Beneath her plain robes and prim spectacles lies a sensual creature waiting to be unleashed. Who better than a dragon to thaw out that icy demeanor? And who better than a beast to finally tame a mighty dragon's heart?
sounds vomit-y, right! Surprisingly not! Dagmar is awesome, a liar and manipulator and politically savvy woman who has survived 2 marriages and who breeds dogs for battle to respond to her commands and likes to watch other people having sex - she is pretty awesome! Gwenveal is okay too - perhaps I am supposed to know more about him from the first 2 books, but mainly he loves to take the piss and sleep around. The book has a nice touch of humour and good banter and half decent fantasy world building(well it's a little handwave-y but not awful I am looking at you Johanna Lindsey) and quite long at 470 pages.
The Ideal Wife by Mary Balogh - so boring! the main characteristic of the hero was that he was so nice he could forgive all of the secrets his new wife(who he married when she was pretending to be a quiet mouse) keeps from him. It was like cotillion but with all the humour and drama removed. boring! disappointed as I really liked some of her other books
World War Z by Max Brooks - reread - I have been carrying around "Feed" to read for the last couple of days but couldn't get into the mood, I read a World War Z fanfic(mad_maudlins awesome gen SGA fusion, Appendix B) and decided on a re-read of World War Z since I just got my own copy recently. Still just as good, but sometimes you want more of each persons story! Yay zombies! I've also been wearing my awesome new threadless shirt "The Horde".