books but not lots of them. also lentils.
What I just finished reading:
the killing moon, which i might have liked more than the hundred thousand kingdoms. there's a lot of really cool worldbuilding (based off ancient egypt and nubia) and i liked a lot of the characters and the religion and magic systems are neat altho it took probably most of the book for me to totally understand the mechanics of them. and i like that it's a fully-contained single story, even tho there's a second book in the series.
What I am reading now:
the amazing adventures of kavalier and clay, by michael chabon, because the only way it could be more in my wheelhouse would be if it was set in the 20s or mid-30s and had lots of cars. :D i mean, it's about nice jewish boys making comics in new york in the years of the american comic book's infancy. plus which, one of them's queer. :D
also i may or may not have read it before but never finished because i wanted to know what was going to happen but i didn't want to read straight through to find out, so i kept skipping ahead and eventually gave up. >.< i still can't believe i did that.
What I'm going to read next:
probably something i already own, altho i'm intrigued by sarah gailey's river of teeth because it's about an alternate america with hippos roaming louisiana. HIPPOS. don't tell me that's not intriguing.
in totally other news, i do expense reports at work for two of the tax partners, and one of them had two random fees on his business credit card (a delinquency fee and a late payment fee) that it turns out stem from an unpaid cab fare from... wait for it... april 2015. why is it just showing up now? who knows! apparently the cab fare has been showing up on every statement as a previous balance, but because the firm covers the credit card bill (because it's a firm card), the partner never actually sees the statements. so he never knew he had this unpaid cab fare from, let me remind you, two and a half years ago. there was much wtf and facepalming when someone at national hq explained to me what was going on.
look at these shoes. are these not fabulous shoes? they are fabulous shoes.
how do you feel about ancient lentils? have a fun and interesting article about ancient kurdish lentils that kindofsortof talks about how on this particular dig they're emblematic of when society started to become more stratified and less communal. there are lots and lots of lentils here.
footloose was on earlier and i could not get over how young everyone looked. sarah jessica parker was nineteen and she looked like a baby. it's such a cheesy movie but i still like it, and the scene where ren teaches willard how to dance is still adorable and fun.
the killing moon, which i might have liked more than the hundred thousand kingdoms. there's a lot of really cool worldbuilding (based off ancient egypt and nubia) and i liked a lot of the characters and the religion and magic systems are neat altho it took probably most of the book for me to totally understand the mechanics of them. and i like that it's a fully-contained single story, even tho there's a second book in the series.
What I am reading now:
the amazing adventures of kavalier and clay, by michael chabon, because the only way it could be more in my wheelhouse would be if it was set in the 20s or mid-30s and had lots of cars. :D i mean, it's about nice jewish boys making comics in new york in the years of the american comic book's infancy. plus which, one of them's queer. :D
also i may or may not have read it before but never finished because i wanted to know what was going to happen but i didn't want to read straight through to find out, so i kept skipping ahead and eventually gave up. >.< i still can't believe i did that.
What I'm going to read next:
probably something i already own, altho i'm intrigued by sarah gailey's river of teeth because it's about an alternate america with hippos roaming louisiana. HIPPOS. don't tell me that's not intriguing.
in totally other news, i do expense reports at work for two of the tax partners, and one of them had two random fees on his business credit card (a delinquency fee and a late payment fee) that it turns out stem from an unpaid cab fare from... wait for it... april 2015. why is it just showing up now? who knows! apparently the cab fare has been showing up on every statement as a previous balance, but because the firm covers the credit card bill (because it's a firm card), the partner never actually sees the statements. so he never knew he had this unpaid cab fare from, let me remind you, two and a half years ago. there was much wtf and facepalming when someone at national hq explained to me what was going on.
look at these shoes. are these not fabulous shoes? they are fabulous shoes.
how do you feel about ancient lentils? have a fun and interesting article about ancient kurdish lentils that kindofsortof talks about how on this particular dig they're emblematic of when society started to become more stratified and less communal. there are lots and lots of lentils here.
footloose was on earlier and i could not get over how young everyone looked. sarah jessica parker was nineteen and she looked like a baby. it's such a cheesy movie but i still like it, and the scene where ren teaches willard how to dance is still adorable and fun.