Well, I am back in Britain and no longer on jetlag time, two weeks later, and mostly just getting by. Glasgow has had nothing approaching 'summer', not even the British variant of summer (e.g. a pleasant temperature and not raining), which is disheartening as we come into August and I think of those Stevie Nicks lyrics* and anticipate the seasons ( Read more... )

So I finished The Broken Kingdoms. It took a while for me to get into it, thanks to these periods of time where my brain does not want to read fiction, but then hit the whole holy shit compelling stage a couple days ago and finished.

It was good, but would have been better if ( only vaguely spoilery stuff. )

A few wee points before I go make myself a snack:

- Tepper's The Visitor, in synopsis:

PEOPLE: [do stuff]
APOCALYPSE: [happens]
PEOPLE: [do stuff]
WEIRD SHIT: [happens]

could have been better. I've enjoyed some of her lesser books more, mostly because I found the setting/characters hard to relate to. ( a bit spoilery in the vague sense )

Ugh, I am utterly exhausted, and I just have no motivation to post. Augh. So.

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Back now. Completely wiped. Jet lag is like a hangover without the fun bit beforehand. And, in some semblance of utter dumbassery, I decided I should work tomorrow and Friday. I need to not be allowed to make decisions.

In better news, I neglected to mention that my copy of LeGuin's Always Coming Home came with me on my travels, and it's so very ( Read more... )

With thanks to lesslikepie who posted it most recently, among others.

Unbelievably white! Also male! What else is new!

( Behind the cut, I have opinions. )

Uh, cause I can. Taken from various people. And I do not have my David Tennant Reading English Teacher icon anymore, sad day.

The book I am reading:
Madhur Jaffrey's memoir, Climbing the Mango Trees. It's a reread, but there's a lot to it I didn't remember, and I'm looking at it in a new light--how she grew up both privileged and colonised. I also ( Read more... )

I don't usually do these but she isn't on Twitter, which is where I usually send birthday wishes, and no one's made a post yet.

So happy birthday to
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A couple of random points:

- I am nearly done with Professor Layton and the Lost Future. The plot of this one is a massively convoluted WTF on the level of last week's Community, but it's fun. One really annoying point is ( Read more... )

So I sorta promised
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