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What I'm reading right now
Jul. 17th, 2007 12:42 amThe Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume I, Arthur Conan Doyle. You'd think I'd have read Holmes before. You'd be wrong. I've read "The Hound of the Baskervilles" and The Seven Percent Solution (which hardly counts), and I've acted in a stage adaptation of "The Man with the Twisted Lip," but I've never sat down and just straight-up worked my way through the Holmes canon. I'm glad I finally started. Like I said to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kleric last week, when the student is ready, the master will appear.
Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life, John Kabat-Zinn. It's been suggested to me that I'd be a bit less tightly-wound if I were to adopt some sort of mindfulness practice. Kabat-Zinn's work has been recommended to me. We'll see how it goes.
DC Showcase Presents Jonah Hex, Volume I. Beaucoup Kevin described it best: five hundred pages of pure cruelty.
Recently finished:
A Storm of Swords, George R.R. Martin. I dunno about this one. A Game of Thrones is one of the best novels I've read, but this one leaves me a little unclear where he's going with the series. After the big pivotal event of the novel, the whole thing has so many loose threads that it ends up being a bit of a mess. And I thought the ending was thoroughly unnecessary. Those of you who've read it know what I'm talking about.
War for the Oaks, Emma Bull. This helped kick off the whole HAPPY FAERIES RUNNING AROUND THE CITY RIGHT BEFORE OUR EYES TRA LA LA LA LA genre of fantasy. Ordinarily, that sort of thing makes me stabby, but this one is well-written enough to make it enjoyable. Of course, it doesn't hurt that it's set in Minneapolis. (There's a line about "the featureless backside of the Hyatt-Regency Hotel" in which a character laments that nobody builds buildings with windows that open anymore. I work in the the featureless backside of the Hyatt-Regency Hotel. I couldn't agree more.) I was never here in the 80s, but after reading this, I get the sense of what it was like. Apart from the faeries, I mean. Tra la la la la.
kleric last week, when the student is ready, the master will appear. Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life, John Kabat-Zinn. It's been suggested to me that I'd be a bit less tightly-wound if I were to adopt some sort of mindfulness practice. Kabat-Zinn's work has been recommended to me. We'll see how it goes.
DC Showcase Presents Jonah Hex, Volume I. Beaucoup Kevin described it best: five hundred pages of pure cruelty.
Recently finished:
A Storm of Swords, George R.R. Martin. I dunno about this one. A Game of Thrones is one of the best novels I've read, but this one leaves me a little unclear where he's going with the series. After the big pivotal event of the novel, the whole thing has so many loose threads that it ends up being a bit of a mess. And I thought the ending was thoroughly unnecessary. Those of you who've read it know what I'm talking about.
War for the Oaks, Emma Bull. This helped kick off the whole HAPPY FAERIES RUNNING AROUND THE CITY RIGHT BEFORE OUR EYES TRA LA LA LA LA genre of fantasy. Ordinarily, that sort of thing makes me stabby, but this one is well-written enough to make it enjoyable. Of course, it doesn't hurt that it's set in Minneapolis. (There's a line about "the featureless backside of the Hyatt-Regency Hotel" in which a character laments that nobody builds buildings with windows that open anymore. I work in the the featureless backside of the Hyatt-Regency Hotel. I couldn't agree more.) I was never here in the 80s, but after reading this, I get the sense of what it was like. Apart from the faeries, I mean. Tra la la la la.
