Snow, snow, go away; current reading; possible future reading/watching
I didn't leave the house today, and we had some rain and above-freezing temperatures, but as of when I was out yesterday, the picture in this tweet from the Nova Scotia CBC account accurately represented the current strata in our snowbanks. *shudders*
Rain is really not my thing, but at this point the ritual phrase of "at least it's not snow" has never felt so apt. (We may yet get more snow. Even for Nova Scotia, the forecast for the next few days has been mercurial. But at least in my city, there was no snow today.)
I'm reading a novel! It may be slow going, between the workload and the other workload, but it's the first one I've sat down with since reading Half-Off Ragnarok and Pocket Apocalypse back to back last month. (And okay, I did read a non-fiction book in there, which happens so rarely that it's almost embarrassing to track it, given how much non-fiction I theoretically want to read. But there are so many novels...! [The novels tab of my media-to-consume spreadsheet, which is still lacking additions from a couple of lengthy sources--like my to-read bookcase--currently has 564 titles. ;_;])
Anyway, what I now have on the go is Caitlín Kiernan's The Drowning Girl: A Memoir, which I've owned since it came out in 2012. Before it came out I'd read all of Kiernan's novels, IIRC, but I didn't wind up reading this one right away, and thus it got shelved...as did her next couple, so I haven't read any of her work since before The Drowning Girl came out. ^^; (This happens a lot with authors whose work I enjoy, other than Seanan McGuire and Sarah Rees Brennan. Anyone else, it's a gamble if I get to a new book immediately or a few years later.) The Drowning Girl got bumped high up on my "what do I read next?" short list when
sovay mentioned it to me a little while back, when I was posting about mermaids. ^_^ The opening lines, as
sovay told me then, are:
"I'm going to write a ghost story now," she typed.
"A ghost story with a mermaid and a wolf," she also typed.
I also typed.
Given the AUs I'm writing ("writing" >.>), you can see how that swayed me. *g*
My media prioritization is, as always, in flux. But off the top of my head and in no particular order, right now the main two categories look (oh-so-)roughly like this:
Novels: Ancillary Justice, Landline (Rainbow Rowell), Flex, Stranger (Rachel Manija Brown and Sherwood Smith), The Lies of Locke Lamora, Persona, the first Steerswoman book...probably another dozen or so that are just not coming to mind because it's 1 AM...
TV (if I don't note a season, I mean starting from the beginning; I'm not including things that are about to come back that I'm caught up on): The Fall season 2, Peaky Blinders season 2, Orange is the New Black, The Americans, Generation Kill, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Jane the Virgin, and Empire are what popped into my head first.
Small things:
--Tonight
wildpear came over for a largely spontaneous visit; while Casual Job's on, our regular hanging-out evening is off the table, and we hadn't seen each other at all since Ginny left. (We did not start The X-Files; watching things is a lower priority when we haven't actually had a chance to hang out for a while.)
--
scruloose is fighting a cold. :/ The good news is that he has a four-day weekend, and
wildpear says it's probably the same cold that's been making the rounds of our social circle. So far I've been spared. *fingers crossed*
--It amuses me that when I reblog a Leverage gifset on Tumblr that's specifically Parker, Eliot, and Hardison, I don't bother tagging it with their names anymore. I don't technically ship them as a triad, but "OT3" is true enough to work as shorthand anyway; they're certainly the closest I have.
...I'm sure there was something else, but it's gone now.
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Rain is really not my thing, but at this point the ritual phrase of "at least it's not snow" has never felt so apt. (We may yet get more snow. Even for Nova Scotia, the forecast for the next few days has been mercurial. But at least in my city, there was no snow today.)
I'm reading a novel! It may be slow going, between the workload and the other workload, but it's the first one I've sat down with since reading Half-Off Ragnarok and Pocket Apocalypse back to back last month. (And okay, I did read a non-fiction book in there, which happens so rarely that it's almost embarrassing to track it, given how much non-fiction I theoretically want to read. But there are so many novels...! [The novels tab of my media-to-consume spreadsheet, which is still lacking additions from a couple of lengthy sources--like my to-read bookcase--currently has 564 titles. ;_;])
Anyway, what I now have on the go is Caitlín Kiernan's The Drowning Girl: A Memoir, which I've owned since it came out in 2012. Before it came out I'd read all of Kiernan's novels, IIRC, but I didn't wind up reading this one right away, and thus it got shelved...as did her next couple, so I haven't read any of her work since before The Drowning Girl came out. ^^; (This happens a lot with authors whose work I enjoy, other than Seanan McGuire and Sarah Rees Brennan. Anyone else, it's a gamble if I get to a new book immediately or a few years later.) The Drowning Girl got bumped high up on my "what do I read next?" short list when
sovay mentioned it to me a little while back, when I was posting about mermaids. ^_^ The opening lines, as
sovay told me then, are:
"I'm going to write a ghost story now," she typed.
"A ghost story with a mermaid and a wolf," she also typed.
I also typed.
Given the AUs I'm writing ("writing" >.>), you can see how that swayed me. *g*
My media prioritization is, as always, in flux. But off the top of my head and in no particular order, right now the main two categories look (oh-so-)roughly like this:
Novels: Ancillary Justice, Landline (Rainbow Rowell), Flex, Stranger (Rachel Manija Brown and Sherwood Smith), The Lies of Locke Lamora, Persona, the first Steerswoman book...probably another dozen or so that are just not coming to mind because it's 1 AM...
TV (if I don't note a season, I mean starting from the beginning; I'm not including things that are about to come back that I'm caught up on): The Fall season 2, Peaky Blinders season 2, Orange is the New Black, The Americans, Generation Kill, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Jane the Virgin, and Empire are what popped into my head first.
Small things:
--Tonight
wildpear came over for a largely spontaneous visit; while Casual Job's on, our regular hanging-out evening is off the table, and we hadn't seen each other at all since Ginny left. (We did not start The X-Files; watching things is a lower priority when we haven't actually had a chance to hang out for a while.)
--
scruloose is fighting a cold. :/ The good news is that he has a four-day weekend, and
wildpear says it's probably the same cold that's been making the rounds of our social circle. So far I've been spared. *fingers crossed*
--It amuses me that when I reblog a Leverage gifset on Tumblr that's specifically Parker, Eliot, and Hardison, I don't bother tagging it with their names anymore. I don't technically ship them as a triad, but "OT3" is true enough to work as shorthand anyway; they're certainly the closest I have.
...I'm sure there was something else, but it's gone now.
Originally posted at http://umadoshi.dreamwidth.org/588688.html. Comment here if you like, or comment there using OpenID. Comments at DW: