"Everyone cries when they're stabbed"

[danceswithwords]

I was hoping to post this past weekend, but I'm dealing with a perfect storm of work crap and house crap right now on top of an enormous backlog of other RL things that I'd been putting off for way too long, and adding stomach flu into the mix did not improve the situation. I'm hoping that things will settle down by, uh, September. *crosses

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[asta77]

Stomach flu? Oh Noes! I hope it's only the 24 hour kind.

I'm thrilled you loved Slings & Arrows. The first season is my favorite. The others are excellent too, but the B romances in subsequent seasons never matched that of Jack and Kate, imho. Plus, I love Rachel McAdams. And I was fond of seeing Jack struggle and succeed and how, in helping Jack, Geoffrey helped himself.

I feel like I can't talk too much about the show without getting into future events and I don't want to spoil anything for you. But once you get to the end you look back and see it was all one big story in 18 parts.

[danceswithwords]

It lasted longer than 24 hours, but I'm well over it now, thank goodness.

And I was fond of seeing Jack struggle and succeed and how, in helping Jack, Geoffrey helped himself.

I really liked that too, and I also got the sense of how aware all the actors were that they age out of certain roles and have to find new ways of participating as they grow older, and Geoffrey was making a new place for himself there.

[cofax7]

Oh, I loved the Riddlemaster books, but then I read them as they came out. I particularly loved that so much of the focus was on Raederle and her choices, not just on Morgon. And I loved the resolution of the plot, which worked far better and was more understandable than most McKillip plots are (for me).

Speaking of food and fish, I just finished John McPhee's The Founding Fish, which is about the American shad, and well-recommended, although leisurely and a bit structurally-unfocused.

I think next Thursday I may get to join you folks!

[danceswithwords]

As I was telling brynnmck, I think part of my issue is just that I have a pretty low threshold for magic and mysticism in fantasy, which has kept me away from a lot of books in the genre. I also saw the resolution coming pretty early, which might not have helped, though I did think it was a neat idea. I really liked Raederle too, though! She wasn't the main actor, but she was a fully-realized person who made her own decisions.

I hope you can join us next Thursday! The Teeth were particularly toothy last night.