Chasing Higher Fruit with axes
I was so excited when the office manager from the Catskills Ice Fest called me back with open spots: somehow I went from trying to schedule something for Jon's sake to actually wanting to do it myself. I think it might be the thrill of improvement. I booked Friday's "Catskills Ice Tour" -- and then found out about this year's first snowpocalypse.
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I'm reading Cold Days too. It's irritating me. It's getting a bit better as I keep reading, but the series was better when it was a detective series, with some randomly thrown in magic stuff, because that was fun. All this epic Evil Winter Summer Faerie Queen Of The Sidhe Fight Against The Outsiders crap is a bit tiresome.
Did I ask yet if you've Kip's book? I know I meant to. But I think I forgot. (Actually, I think I asked someone else on their LJ while reading a post while very tired because it sort of read like it was one of your posts about reading.) It's dead good. And in the same sorta genre (as the earlier bits in the series.) I think of it as Jim Butcher meets Scott Westerfield.
http://www.amazon.com/Pledge-The-Guild-Memoirs-ebook/dp/B00AX1ZC04/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1360644901&sr=8-1&keywords=pledge+pettigrew
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I actually kinda like some of the faerie stuff: it finally explains some of the nonsense in the earlier books. I could do with less of the politics; maybe in the next book.
Very tired? You? What, you think having baby twins is hard? :)
Sarah Dash, who only had one child at the time, commented in Tech Review that it was way harder than any all-nighter she had at the 'tute, a comment that has stuck with me since.
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