wednesday reading meme, also white collar and other stuff
i now have music at work, by which i mean someone suggested i check out spotify. so it's no longer quiet as death around my cube. this is good.
my reaction to the white collar season finale was basically "well that was contrived as hell". i was less than impressed, and also unsurprised that neal's dad turned out to be a bad guy after all. hmph. i did think the little blimp was cute, tho.
i'm now 600 words behind on my bigbang but it's late and i'm tired and i have a headache and i can't bring myself to care. also i have no idea what the plot is, which makes it kind of hard to write.
and now, the wednesday reading meme! because i haven't gone to bed yet so it's still wednesday.
What I'm currently reading:
the friar of carcassonne: revolt against the inquisition in the last days of the cathars, by stephen o'shea. for insmallpackages i asked for some non-fiction recs, and drvsilla said "oh, i have a tag for book recs", and there were LOTS OF POSTS. O.O and this sounded interesting. so i'm learning about the south of france in the very early fourteenth century, and also small-i inquisition (as opposed to "no one expects the spanish inquisition!" big-i inquisition), and franciscans and dominicans and cathars, and vaguely terrorized and fed-up french folks, and greedy clergymen. and the friar of the title, whose name was bernard délicieux, which i believe means "delicious bernard". heh.
What I just finished reading:
song of sorcery, by elizabeth scarborough, which i found sitting on a bench in the harvard square t station. it's mostly british-isles-flavored fantasy, with the occasional anachronistic detail. (a chocolate layer cake, and the cat's name is ching which is short for chingachgook. uh-huh.) it was cute, tho. there's a lovesick dragon. and a bear.
What I plan to read next:
i have no idea. maybe midnight riot (aka rivers of london) if i can remember to ask for/order it the next time i'm in a bookstore, or the provincials which my cousin recommended to me a year ago and is about southern (us) jews. or jonathan strange and mr norrell, which i've had for years and have still not read.
my reaction to the white collar season finale was basically "well that was contrived as hell". i was less than impressed, and also unsurprised that neal's dad turned out to be a bad guy after all. hmph. i did think the little blimp was cute, tho.
i'm now 600 words behind on my bigbang but it's late and i'm tired and i have a headache and i can't bring myself to care. also i have no idea what the plot is, which makes it kind of hard to write.
and now, the wednesday reading meme! because i haven't gone to bed yet so it's still wednesday.
What I'm currently reading:
the friar of carcassonne: revolt against the inquisition in the last days of the cathars, by stephen o'shea. for insmallpackages i asked for some non-fiction recs, and drvsilla said "oh, i have a tag for book recs", and there were LOTS OF POSTS. O.O and this sounded interesting. so i'm learning about the south of france in the very early fourteenth century, and also small-i inquisition (as opposed to "no one expects the spanish inquisition!" big-i inquisition), and franciscans and dominicans and cathars, and vaguely terrorized and fed-up french folks, and greedy clergymen. and the friar of the title, whose name was bernard délicieux, which i believe means "delicious bernard". heh.
What I just finished reading:
song of sorcery, by elizabeth scarborough, which i found sitting on a bench in the harvard square t station. it's mostly british-isles-flavored fantasy, with the occasional anachronistic detail. (a chocolate layer cake, and the cat's name is ching which is short for chingachgook. uh-huh.) it was cute, tho. there's a lovesick dragon. and a bear.
What I plan to read next:
i have no idea. maybe midnight riot (aka rivers of london) if i can remember to ask for/order it the next time i'm in a bookstore, or the provincials which my cousin recommended to me a year ago and is about southern (us) jews. or jonathan strange and mr norrell, which i've had for years and have still not read.