I think i love Friday the 13th!
It's never really been a bad-luck day for me, historically, not that i really am superstitious in that way. (Other ways, yes!) Remember this photo, the one i sold last year? The cheque arrived today! :)))) 100 lovely dollars. I think i'll probably have to take it to the bank to cash it/deposit it, mainly because I'm pretty sure it's in US dollars so i don't think i can put it straight into the bank via the ATM. I may lose a couple of dollars in the exchange rate but that's no bother. Now, what to do with it? I think I may just pop it in the travel account and buy something on one of my trips this year (unless i see something before then! *koff*). We're probably going to Quebec City in May and probably going to Rome in November though i don't imagine i'll hold on to it until then.
Pretty exciting though, getting paid for a photo i took. It's for a literacy program and it's going to be in a little book about museums and they did say they'd send me a copy when it's out.
I've finished the final book of the Game of Thrones series, book 5, A Dance with Dragons. That's number 5 for the year so far. I can't say i overly enjoyed it though. I've read all five over the past 6 or 7 months and i'm done with it for awhile. I have found that i don't like how he drops major characters for a whole book or even two, or barely touches on them. The story is almost too sweeping and large, it gets hard to follow sometimes. Then he also drops bombshells and kills off major characters. It's like bloody Hamlet, i think there won't be anyone left standing at the end! Parts of this book were good, parts of it were told from the point of view of strangers that didn't always really add much to the story. There was a couple of chapters scattered through about one character and she was only in it a couple last time as well and I still can't figure out what he's doing with her because it has absolutely nothing to do with the overall picture yet. It's frustrating and it's starting to piss me off. Apparently there was 6 years between the 4th and 5th books. I don't think i'll miss it if it's a long wait for the next one. But the series from book 1 was really good and the next series starts in April. I did enjoy the first three books quite a lot so i'm looking forward to the next series at least.
Pretty exciting though, getting paid for a photo i took. It's for a literacy program and it's going to be in a little book about museums and they did say they'd send me a copy when it's out.
I've finished the final book of the Game of Thrones series, book 5, A Dance with Dragons. That's number 5 for the year so far. I can't say i overly enjoyed it though. I've read all five over the past 6 or 7 months and i'm done with it for awhile. I have found that i don't like how he drops major characters for a whole book or even two, or barely touches on them. The story is almost too sweeping and large, it gets hard to follow sometimes. Then he also drops bombshells and kills off major characters. It's like bloody Hamlet, i think there won't be anyone left standing at the end! Parts of this book were good, parts of it were told from the point of view of strangers that didn't always really add much to the story. There was a couple of chapters scattered through about one character and she was only in it a couple last time as well and I still can't figure out what he's doing with her because it has absolutely nothing to do with the overall picture yet. It's frustrating and it's starting to piss me off. Apparently there was 6 years between the 4th and 5th books. I don't think i'll miss it if it's a long wait for the next one. But the series from book 1 was really good and the next series starts in April. I did enjoy the first three books quite a lot so i'm looking forward to the next series at least.