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Apr. 28th, 2005 07:34 pmWork is so stressful right now. Part of it is kind of fun - I react well to deadlines, since I kind of like the adrenaline rush that goes with meeting them. But HMOG, I'm so tired at the end of the day. And I don't have time to read LJ! Wahh!
Randomness: my Tivo broke for a week, then fixed itself at 8 PM last night, while I was on the phone with the Tivo consult guy, just in time for the Lost recap. My mother is now a huge Lost fan. I hope to convert her (and most of my RL friends) to Veronica Mars fans during the summer rerun season. VM is *such* a good show. I missed: all of this week's Gilmore Girls (catch-up shows & the new one), Grey's Anatomy, Joan of Arcadia, and a few others that I can't think of now. HUGE Drat on missing the new GG. What was Logan's family like?
Books read:
High Maintenance is dreadful. Not recommended. A thrift-shop find.
Same with The Full Cupboard of Life. I like the Alexander McCall Smith Mme. Ramotsme books alot; Lizette whatshername the reader is one of the best on books on tape/CD. But Cupboard is Smith waxing on What Woman Think and What Woman Are Like, and What Men Like in Women. ::shudders:: None of it rings true to the character, which I feel I know better than he does listening to this book. All could see in the words was the older white male Rhodesian/Scottman spouting off. I listened to 2 full tapes, never stopped seeing the author behind the words, hating what he was making Mme Ramotswe say, and returned it.
So instead I'm listening to one of his earlier books that I'd missed, Morality for Beautiful Girls. It's similar to the others, a marvelous travelogue for Botswana, and a quiet, gentle, moral "mom book" with a gentle mystery. This one has alot more of the history of Botswama, which I've enjoyed.
Never Let Me Go is quiet and poignant and completely backwardly-reflective, which makes sense, since it's Kazuo Ishiguro's speciality (he wrote Remains of the Day, which I now want to see again). It's an AU/lit-fic story about cloning set in England in a quietly indeterminate perhaps-present time. I read it as happening now, but it's a setting without cell phones, the Internet, faxes, blogs, etc. Now that I think about it, I suppose it is later narrowed down to the 70's & 80's, which would make sense. The big reveal is not made until page 81, so, the book reviewers really did blow it IMHO. It's an excellent companion book to Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood, also about cloning, which was my favorite book read last year. O&C is more realistic, if that makes sense, even though it's out-there sci fi than NLMG. I'm running out of time, anyway, NLMG is definitely recommended.
Randomness: my Tivo broke for a week, then fixed itself at 8 PM last night, while I was on the phone with the Tivo consult guy, just in time for the Lost recap. My mother is now a huge Lost fan. I hope to convert her (and most of my RL friends) to Veronica Mars fans during the summer rerun season. VM is *such* a good show. I missed: all of this week's Gilmore Girls (catch-up shows & the new one), Grey's Anatomy, Joan of Arcadia, and a few others that I can't think of now. HUGE Drat on missing the new GG. What was Logan's family like?
Books read:
High Maintenance is dreadful. Not recommended. A thrift-shop find.
Same with The Full Cupboard of Life. I like the Alexander McCall Smith Mme. Ramotsme books alot; Lizette whatshername the reader is one of the best on books on tape/CD. But Cupboard is Smith waxing on What Woman Think and What Woman Are Like, and What Men Like in Women. ::shudders:: None of it rings true to the character, which I feel I know better than he does listening to this book. All could see in the words was the older white male Rhodesian/Scottman spouting off. I listened to 2 full tapes, never stopped seeing the author behind the words, hating what he was making Mme Ramotswe say, and returned it.
So instead I'm listening to one of his earlier books that I'd missed, Morality for Beautiful Girls. It's similar to the others, a marvelous travelogue for Botswana, and a quiet, gentle, moral "mom book" with a gentle mystery. This one has alot more of the history of Botswama, which I've enjoyed.
Never Let Me Go is quiet and poignant and completely backwardly-reflective, which makes sense, since it's Kazuo Ishiguro's speciality (he wrote Remains of the Day, which I now want to see again). It's an AU/lit-fic story about cloning set in England in a quietly indeterminate perhaps-present time. I read it as happening now, but it's a setting without cell phones, the Internet, faxes, blogs, etc. Now that I think about it, I suppose it is later narrowed down to the 70's & 80's, which would make sense. The big reveal is not made until page 81, so, the book reviewers really did blow it IMHO. It's an excellent companion book to Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood, also about cloning, which was my favorite book read last year. O&C is more realistic, if that makes sense, even though it's out-there sci fi than NLMG. I'm running out of time, anyway, NLMG is definitely recommended.