someday i'll post the wednesday reading meme on wednesday

May 30, 2013 00:24

typo of the morning: a sign for "assport photos". (technically not a typo, as the "p" on the sign was busted.) hee.

What I just read:
a lot of comics! i'm all caught up on hawkguy hawkeye now and am liking it a lot. i love that almost every issue starts with or has at least one instance of "i know this looks bad". clint's adorable. screwed ( Read more... )

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apiphile May 30 2013, 09:24:41 UTC
Aww man, Gertrude Bell. Good reading choice. She was a pretty hugely influential person in the peace process.

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tsuki_no_bara May 31 2013, 00:04:25 UTC
i am constantly amazed and impressed by all the things she got away with. we haven't even gotten to ww1 yet and she's already famous.

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rysmiel May 30 2013, 14:24:55 UTC
I still read Unwritten, if that helps any.

Last Light of the Sun was ridiculously irritating to me because Kay had clearly looked at Welsh spelling but assumed that the letters mean the same sounds they do in English, which they do not, and ensuingly came out with quasi-Welsh names that are unpronounceable if read as Welsh.

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tsuki_no_bara May 31 2013, 00:26:03 UTC
does the mytharc make sense to you? with leviathan being dead and old stories vs new stories and i don't even remember how tom got to hades in the first place. i'm not sure if i'm having a failure of memory and understanding, or if mike carey just isn't explaining it that well.

i audited a welsh class in grad school - and that was a smart idea, as i have zero facility with languages, but i wanted to learn it - and all i remember about pronunciation is that i couldn't do the double-l, and w is a vowel. (like "oo", i think? see, i don't remember.) that's annoying about ggk's names, tho. my guess is he didn't think most of his readers would know how to pronounce them if they were really welsh, so he went with what looked good.

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rysmiel May 31 2013, 14:08:20 UTC
It does make sense to me, though I have only read up as far as the start of War of the Words more than once and my head's been full of other things lately my memory may be smoothing it out or backfilling. (I'm not quite sure how much of the "there are other leviathans" I am remembering is from interviews a couple of months ago when "The Wound" came out in collected form and how much is in the text.)

The really annoying thing about Kay's names in that is that it would have been trivially easy for him to get someone who knows Welsh (papersky for one) to look them over. w is "oo" and y is "uh". There are names in LLotS where Kay puts them together as if w were a consonant as in English.

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tsuki_no_bara June 1 2013, 00:40:47 UTC
>>(I'm not quite sure how much of the "there are other leviathans" I am remembering is from interviews a couple of months ago when "The Wound" came out in collected form and how much is in the text.)<<

i'd say interview, because i don't remember that at all. altho my memory is suspect....

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klgaffney May 30 2013, 18:28:07 UTC
Desert Queen sounds fascinating. I don't remember a THING about the GGK book, except man does he love his prose, but I remember liking it? Not like in a ground-breaking way, but as an enjoyable enough read. I mean, well, Vikings.

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tsuki_no_bara May 31 2013, 00:09:27 UTC
it is fascinating! it seems like she was always pointing off somewhere, saying "i want to go there", and going, come hell or high water or bedouins or the turkish government. there were no locked doors in her world.

>>I mean, well, Vikings.<<

that's kind of what's swaying me. i'm not even halfway done with gertrude, tho, so i might change my mind.

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