but sooner or later they all will be gone
Remember last Wednesday's work PC issue with video drivers? Yeah, so that happened again this morning. Ugh. I don't know why - there's no malware or anything. IT guy checked! But it was another 90 minutes or so of him toodling around updating drivers and stuff that he'd updated last week (or so we thought!). Always a great start to the day.
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Hey, so
podcath recorded a bunch of ficlets I've written for the podfic anthology, and you can get them all here and here. Plus a kind anonymouse recorded Waiting to Spark, the Katara/Zuko story I wrote for last year's
white_lotus Lunar New Year Exchange.
Podfic yay!
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I really enjoyed last night's White Collar. I always love it when El gets to play a large part in an episode and she FINALLY told Peter what she'd done and it wasn't any big drama, just two mature adults agreeing that she'd made a mistake and that they'd fix it. Oh heart.
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Wednesday book meme:
What I'm reading now:
Dead Man's Boots by Mike Carey, the third Felix Castor novel. I just started it this morning, though, so I don't have much to say yet.
What I just finished reading:
The Devil You Know and Vicious Circle, the first two Felix Castor novels.
If you like noir detective fiction with ghosts and demons thrown in, you'll probably enjoy these. The writing is strong, Felix at least is a vivid character (his supporting cast, not so much, except for Nicky and Juliet), even though he is kind of a bastard (he's certainly no Peter Grant, I tell you what), and the plots are twisty enough to be pleasing but also not that hard to put together if you've read any detective fiction before.
I think Vicious Circle was more exciting than The Devil You Know, except for the momentum halting info dump right at the end - I was like, "Felix finally figured out what is going on; how are there still almost 200 pages to go?" but that was without factoring in the super long and mostly unnecessary storytime with Dennis Peace section.
Also, I felt like Felix was super slow to put the clues together - maybe it's just because I've read a book before, but the fact that he didn't immediately link Rafi's recovery with the sudden possession in the church until 3/4 of the way through makes me think he really has been hit in the head too many times. (Yes, I know, there's an in-story reason for it, and I have the advantage of knowing I'm reading a noir detective story so all the seemingly disparate plot threads will actually tie together somehow and Felix doesn't, but still. A little genre-savvy would be nice.) Still I enjoyed it.
What I plan to read next:
I don't know. There's still at least one more of these books around, but I might take a break and read This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz, since I'm going to see him speak in April. Otoh, there's still time to get to that, so who knows?
Plus, as usual, whatever comics come out today.
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This entry at DW: http://musesfool.dreamwidth.org/546164.html.
people have commented there.
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Hey, so
podcath recorded a bunch of ficlets I've written for the podfic anthology, and you can get them all here and here. Plus a kind anonymouse recorded Waiting to Spark, the Katara/Zuko story I wrote for last year's
white_lotus Lunar New Year Exchange.
Podfic yay!
*
I really enjoyed last night's White Collar. I always love it when El gets to play a large part in an episode and she FINALLY told Peter what she'd done and it wasn't any big drama, just two mature adults agreeing that she'd made a mistake and that they'd fix it. Oh heart.
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Wednesday book meme:
What I'm reading now:
Dead Man's Boots by Mike Carey, the third Felix Castor novel. I just started it this morning, though, so I don't have much to say yet.
What I just finished reading:
The Devil You Know and Vicious Circle, the first two Felix Castor novels.
If you like noir detective fiction with ghosts and demons thrown in, you'll probably enjoy these. The writing is strong, Felix at least is a vivid character (his supporting cast, not so much, except for Nicky and Juliet), even though he is kind of a bastard (he's certainly no Peter Grant, I tell you what), and the plots are twisty enough to be pleasing but also not that hard to put together if you've read any detective fiction before.
I think Vicious Circle was more exciting than The Devil You Know, except for the momentum halting info dump right at the end - I was like, "Felix finally figured out what is going on; how are there still almost 200 pages to go?" but that was without factoring in the super long and mostly unnecessary storytime with Dennis Peace section.
Also, I felt like Felix was super slow to put the clues together - maybe it's just because I've read a book before, but the fact that he didn't immediately link Rafi's recovery with the sudden possession in the church until 3/4 of the way through makes me think he really has been hit in the head too many times. (Yes, I know, there's an in-story reason for it, and I have the advantage of knowing I'm reading a noir detective story so all the seemingly disparate plot threads will actually tie together somehow and Felix doesn't, but still. A little genre-savvy would be nice.) Still I enjoyed it.
What I plan to read next:
I don't know. There's still at least one more of these books around, but I might take a break and read This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz, since I'm going to see him speak in April. Otoh, there's still time to get to that, so who knows?
Plus, as usual, whatever comics come out today.
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This entry at DW: http://musesfool.dreamwidth.org/546164.html.
people have commented there.