books! oh, and writing group
at the end of every writing group meeting (tonight was a writing group night) we discuss who's supposed to be turning something in right then for the next meeting, who's supposed to be turning something in AT the next meeting, and sometimes who's supposed to be turning something in the meeting after that. so tonight we're trying to figure out whose turn it is to submit on april 17, and my name comes up, and i announce "oh, there is no fucking way". i can work on one thing at a time, and right now bigbang is it, crap-ass writing and nonexistent plotting and excessive rambling and all. maybe in may i'll be able to think about something else. (not highly likely, but possible!)
wednesday reading meme:
What I'm currently reading:
midnight riot/rivers of london, by ben aronovich. which i'm liking! it's the kind of urban fantasy i prefer, in which the magical and fantastical are also creepy and arcane and old and genuinely dangerous and juuuuust under the surface, and the greater part of the population has no idea. the weird is just a little sideways from the normal. also, so far no werewolves or vampires. but there's a dog. :D and london, natch.
What I just finished reading:
the friar of carcassonne: revolt against the inquisition in the last days of the cathars, by stephen o'shea. i enjoyed it, i learned stuff i didn't know, it gave me the vaguest of plot bunnies (for a story about an earnest inquisitor who really genuinely believes he's doing good - like, he's not a greedy, dishonest, power-hungry clergyman - and the cathar heretic he, er, inquisits, who basically leads him to question everything) (and yes, that means exactly what you think it does :D ), and i wish it was longer. i think i'm used to my historical non-fiction being many hundreds of pages, rather than just a couple hundred.
What I plan to read next:
possibly moon over soho, the book after midnight riot. possibly something else. i have the new hawkeye trade and the new blade of the immortal to read, too, plus a growing pile of comics.
wednesday reading meme:
What I'm currently reading:
midnight riot/rivers of london, by ben aronovich. which i'm liking! it's the kind of urban fantasy i prefer, in which the magical and fantastical are also creepy and arcane and old and genuinely dangerous and juuuuust under the surface, and the greater part of the population has no idea. the weird is just a little sideways from the normal. also, so far no werewolves or vampires. but there's a dog. :D and london, natch.
What I just finished reading:
the friar of carcassonne: revolt against the inquisition in the last days of the cathars, by stephen o'shea. i enjoyed it, i learned stuff i didn't know, it gave me the vaguest of plot bunnies (for a story about an earnest inquisitor who really genuinely believes he's doing good - like, he's not a greedy, dishonest, power-hungry clergyman - and the cathar heretic he, er, inquisits, who basically leads him to question everything) (and yes, that means exactly what you think it does :D ), and i wish it was longer. i think i'm used to my historical non-fiction being many hundreds of pages, rather than just a couple hundred.
What I plan to read next:
possibly moon over soho, the book after midnight riot. possibly something else. i have the new hawkeye trade and the new blade of the immortal to read, too, plus a growing pile of comics.