Gadget girls unite!
Start of June our household is pulling up stakes and moving.....two buildings over. Just a transfer in our complex to a bigger place, a nice two bedroom apartment that we can actually fit our bookshelves into. I am extremely excited and thinking about how to decorate. Steampunk is the theme I have settled on but really leaning on the Victorian end of it. It is mostly daydreaming until I get any sort of space and money and time so....
The Tidal Poole by Karen Harper
The second in the Elizabeth I as the main detective. It was as good as the first one, meaning I will be continuing to read the series. Yay!
The Plot to Save Socrates by Paul Levinson
It looked interesting. And for the first half it was. It revolved around a dialogue with Socrates uncovered by a man who belongs to an old old gentleman's club told from the point of view of his protege who he shows it to. The mystery is whether it is real or not and who wrote it.....oh and time travel is involved. The problem is that while the plot I wrote out can be told in a detached manner and keep one's interest, it changed it's mind about what kind of story it was. It morphed into a story that needs a reader's connection to the protagonist not the plot to matter and it's dry detached voice just missed all that it could have had in the earlier plot.
Solar Lottery by Philip K. Dick
He is hard to read in the same way that Gibson can be hard to read or Tanith Lee. They do not make their action or plot so blunt that sometimes it passes through one's mind in poetic turns of phrase without one getting what is exactly going on. I like this kind of writing. It would not work for romance novels, they need to be blunt and direct. Science fiction and fantasy by far do not (don't get me wrong the other end of total abstract does not work either). In this novel the plot is woven together well, with some nice action, and characters that you can understand. This may not end up being my favorite book by Dick after I read more of his since I did not connect especially with any one character, I still think it is a good one.
And daydreaming about colors or pieces of furniture has shown me some very neat pages of stuff which if course may not end up in our home but is fun to look at. Just some lamps for now.
"You turn the light on like water"
"Note: these would get very hot so no touching"
The Tidal Poole by Karen Harper
The second in the Elizabeth I as the main detective. It was as good as the first one, meaning I will be continuing to read the series. Yay!
The Plot to Save Socrates by Paul Levinson
It looked interesting. And for the first half it was. It revolved around a dialogue with Socrates uncovered by a man who belongs to an old old gentleman's club told from the point of view of his protege who he shows it to. The mystery is whether it is real or not and who wrote it.....oh and time travel is involved. The problem is that while the plot I wrote out can be told in a detached manner and keep one's interest, it changed it's mind about what kind of story it was. It morphed into a story that needs a reader's connection to the protagonist not the plot to matter and it's dry detached voice just missed all that it could have had in the earlier plot.
Solar Lottery by Philip K. Dick
He is hard to read in the same way that Gibson can be hard to read or Tanith Lee. They do not make their action or plot so blunt that sometimes it passes through one's mind in poetic turns of phrase without one getting what is exactly going on. I like this kind of writing. It would not work for romance novels, they need to be blunt and direct. Science fiction and fantasy by far do not (don't get me wrong the other end of total abstract does not work either). In this novel the plot is woven together well, with some nice action, and characters that you can understand. This may not end up being my favorite book by Dick after I read more of his since I did not connect especially with any one character, I still think it is a good one.
And daydreaming about colors or pieces of furniture has shown me some very neat pages of stuff which if course may not end up in our home but is fun to look at. Just some lamps for now.
"You turn the light on like water"
"Note: these would get very hot so no touching"