Comments | jade_sabre_301: it is WEDNESDAY

jade_sabre_301

it is WEDNESDAY

Jan 26, 2011 21:41

if I get through tomorrow I will be HALFWAY THERE maybe I will make a better post then.

I want to talk about something fandom-y! I am like three chapters away from finishing The Farthest Shore and the chapter I ended on today ended with Series Main Character mentioning wanting to see Book Two Main Character and I squealed like a little girl in ( Read more... )

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mcredhead January 27 2011, 06:24:18 UTC

http://www.aarome.org/apply-to-the-rome-prize.php

The trouble is for Literature you don't apply, you get nominated by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. So... get on their good list? Somehow? I dunno. All I know is I'm eying those pre-doctoral and post-doctoral fellowships! Though honestly, how much of a dissertation would I get done if I were in Rome?

Yay Handel! My choir is singing a Selig sind die Toten which is nowhere near as nice as Brahms and it makes me miss Chorale. And Tsung Yeh!

styromgalleries January 27 2011, 08:33:21 UTC

the chapter I ended on today ended with Series Main Character mentioning wanting to see Book Two Main Character and I squealed like a little girl in the (empty) teacher's lounge because I love them that much. SO MUCH.
:D :D :D :D JUST WAIT UNTIL THE NEXT ONE! ;)

Are you liking The Farthest Shore? It's pretty intense, right? At least, I think I remember it that way. It's part adventure story with awesome Ged being awesome and melancholy and all that, and part HOMG THIS IS REALLY DARK.

jade_sabre_301 January 28 2011, 05:49:17 UTC

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH WHERE WILL I GET IT THE LIBRARY IS GOING TO BOOT ME OUT FOR OWING TOO MUCH MONEY ALSO I JUST NEED TO OWN IT MYSELF AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH GOD I LOVE THEM.

I am liking it! It is a definite shift away from Atuan and that makes me a little sad because Atuan is so excellent, but it is equally breathtaking in its own way. And. Yes. It is Dark.

beth_shulman January 28 2011, 00:20:03 UTC

I think I'm reading either A Wizard of Earthsea or The Farthest Shore this weekend :D

jade_sabre_301 January 28 2011, 03:32:10 UTC

WIZARD OF EARTHSEA FIRST

OMG YOU HAVE TO READ THEM IN ORDER YOU HAVE TO READ THEM IN ORDER

seriously Wizard of Earthsea sets up everything and and--okay it's basically like not reading The Thief first, which okay is what I did and I still loved QoA (it is, in fact, almost exactly like not reading The Thief first), but like OMG, WIZARD SETS UP EVERYTHING

but you definitely don't want to start with Farthest Shore JUST SAYING.

beth_shulman January 28 2011, 04:16:10 UTC

OH OH OH OKAY :)

(And I didn't read The Thief first, either. I read KoA first - picked it up off a library shelf and said, hey, this cover looks different. And the blurb was intriguing, so I took it out. And loved it. And then read The Thief and wasn't spoiled because MWT never mentions the significance of Thief-itude. So yeah. Long ramble. But it would have been better to read them in order, which is what I will do here. Please let me not be bored.)

jade_sabre_301 January 28 2011, 05:55:01 UTC

:D :D :D :D

See when I finally read The Thief I spent the whole book thinking the twist would be that Gen had amnesia. WHOOPS GUESS NOT. I think it was my third readthrough when I realized the fact that he's actually the Thief of Eddis is the twist? :-b (I HOPE YOU ARE NOT BORED. It takes some warming up. But it is worth it.)

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