haven! also reading meme.
happy birthday gnomi! one of my favorite lunch dates, and also walking judaica encyclopedia. this calls for cake!
dancing boys: *high-kick*
so syfy has been running a haven marathon all day in preparation for the (delayed) season finale tonight, and i've been sitting on my couch pretty much all day watching it. i did get off my ass long enough to eat and wash my face and get dressed, at least. also i have kind of a cold and just don't have the energy to do anything else. also also i need to eat dinner but all i want is a bowl of chicken noodle soup with a giant matzo ball in it, but i don't know where to get one and i don't want to leave the house anyway. and i have the worst craving for a ho-ho, which is a problem now that hostess is (temporarily?) kaput.
i'm kind of excited for the haven finale. i'm really curious how they plan to lead into s4.
have a reading meme, as seen pretty much everywhere.
What are you currently reading?
to end all wars: a story of loyalty and rebellion, 1914-1918, by adam hochschild, about ww1 and the pacifist movement in britain. (my dad loaned it to me.) i'm liking it because i'm learning stuff, altho every so often i wish there was more about the pacifists/socialists/bolsheviks/conscientious objectors/anti-war crowd, and less about the generals and the prime minister and what exactly was happening to guys at the front. altho i think you need at least some of that for context, and, again, see: "learning stuff". because there's still so much i don't know about the war and attitudes for and against it, and what did and didn't happen and where.
What did you recently finish reading?
the ghost road, by pat barker, which is also about ww1, only it's fiction. (are we seeing a trend? :D ) i think regeneration is my favorite of the trilogy, but the ghost road is a very close second. i admit i was kind of reading it for ideas for the nanonovel - and ideas for things to research - but i really like it on its own merits. it was kind of hard to read because i knew how it ended (i read the last page but also, come on, ww1), and apiphile called it "very visceral but very clinical" and it really is (officers at the front, plus one of the main characters is a, er, i think he's actually trained as an anthropologist? a man of science, anyway, working with shell-shock patients at a hospital in london), but it's also really well-written and it's about ghosts and memory and it's kind of horrific but there's some poetry to it and it's just a really good book.
What do you think you’ll read next?
i was halfway thru the story of beautiful girl, by rachel simon, which my mom loaned me - i get history from dad and novels from mom - when i realized i should probably be reading up on ww1 for the nanonovel. so i should finish that so i can give it back. (it's about a developmentally disabled white woman in an institution, a deaf black guy who works there, their baby, and the woman who takes the kid to raise. not as depressing as it sounds, altho what i've read so far is set in the late 60s and 70s, when attitudes towards the mentally challenged were, er, not what they are today. ultimately it's a love story, tho.)
dancing boys: *high-kick*
so syfy has been running a haven marathon all day in preparation for the (delayed) season finale tonight, and i've been sitting on my couch pretty much all day watching it. i did get off my ass long enough to eat and wash my face and get dressed, at least. also i have kind of a cold and just don't have the energy to do anything else. also also i need to eat dinner but all i want is a bowl of chicken noodle soup with a giant matzo ball in it, but i don't know where to get one and i don't want to leave the house anyway. and i have the worst craving for a ho-ho, which is a problem now that hostess is (temporarily?) kaput.
i'm kind of excited for the haven finale. i'm really curious how they plan to lead into s4.
have a reading meme, as seen pretty much everywhere.
What are you currently reading?
to end all wars: a story of loyalty and rebellion, 1914-1918, by adam hochschild, about ww1 and the pacifist movement in britain. (my dad loaned it to me.) i'm liking it because i'm learning stuff, altho every so often i wish there was more about the pacifists/socialists/bolsheviks/conscientious objectors/anti-war crowd, and less about the generals and the prime minister and what exactly was happening to guys at the front. altho i think you need at least some of that for context, and, again, see: "learning stuff". because there's still so much i don't know about the war and attitudes for and against it, and what did and didn't happen and where.
What did you recently finish reading?
the ghost road, by pat barker, which is also about ww1, only it's fiction. (are we seeing a trend? :D ) i think regeneration is my favorite of the trilogy, but the ghost road is a very close second. i admit i was kind of reading it for ideas for the nanonovel - and ideas for things to research - but i really like it on its own merits. it was kind of hard to read because i knew how it ended (i read the last page but also, come on, ww1), and apiphile called it "very visceral but very clinical" and it really is (officers at the front, plus one of the main characters is a, er, i think he's actually trained as an anthropologist? a man of science, anyway, working with shell-shock patients at a hospital in london), but it's also really well-written and it's about ghosts and memory and it's kind of horrific but there's some poetry to it and it's just a really good book.
What do you think you’ll read next?
i was halfway thru the story of beautiful girl, by rachel simon, which my mom loaned me - i get history from dad and novels from mom - when i realized i should probably be reading up on ww1 for the nanonovel. so i should finish that so i can give it back. (it's about a developmentally disabled white woman in an institution, a deaf black guy who works there, their baby, and the woman who takes the kid to raise. not as depressing as it sounds, altho what i've read so far is set in the late 60s and 70s, when attitudes towards the mentally challenged were, er, not what they are today. ultimately it's a love story, tho.)