It's that day again

[selenay]

I am already more than half way through Black Powder War, which is excellent and I'm going to be very impatient waiting for the next Temeraire book.

Um, I may also have got a few chapters into Persuasion. Er.

Books are just not safe around me! You know what I'd love? A week where I could just forget all about responsibilities, jobs and even writing and just read solidly. That would be a heavenly holiday. Anyone want to reassure me that I'm not crazy to have two three books on the go by reciting your current reading list?

However, the short holiday that I did get was lovely. I read a lot over the weekend, I got far more writing done than I ever imagined I would and I rested a bit. The writing, though, I'm very pleased with because Mage Murders is starting to feel like a novel. Hopefully a novel that will get finished.

Les Miserables on Thursday was absolutely amazing: I'd forgotten just how good it is live. The voices were fantastic, Valjean and Javert were well matched, and the music was as good as it always is. Definitely retains its title as my favourite musical :-)

Now, sadly, it's Monday and I'm back at work again *sigh* However, it's Easter in a couple of weeks which means that I'll get a couple of short weeks then. And it's now only five days until new Doctor Who :-) Da and I are planning a trip into London on Saturday to visit bookshops, but we'll be making darned sure that we're back well before 7pm.

Is there even any point in mentioning that the data warehouse has fallen over and my reports aren't running? As usual?

Comments

[gmul.livejournal.com]

I've been saving this for your Monday amusement since I saw it mentioned by my friend Dominic recently.

I'm sure you don't need help in how to win arguments, but just in case:
http://www.pigdog.org/auto/mr_bads_list/shortcolumn/1914.html

[selenay]

*g* I enjoyed that, thank you :-) Scarily, most of those arguments would go straight over the heads of my colleagues...

Like the icon, too :-)

[gmul.livejournal.com]

would go straight over the heads of my colleagues...
As long as that's not taken as a reason to stop you! :-)

[historyterry.livejournal.com]

Thankyou again for my lovely book :-)!

As to my current reading list, and about having more than two on the go, how about this:
* Lost languages
* The Egyptian book of the dead
* Egyptian gods
* Metamagical themas
* Doing your masters dissertation
* Martial - Epigrams
* Greek myths (volume 1 of 2)
* Learning Greek
* Persian fire
* Moby dick
* Biggles defies the swastika
* and, erm, some South American anthropology thing that's been languishing at the back for about three years...

of course, most of this doesn't get touched that often on account of late night badfic taking over :-).

[selenay]

OK, I feel much better now :-) How many of them are directly connection to college work? I'm assuming that Biggles may be just for fun...

The late night badfic, though? Still can't work out how you do that!

[historyterry.livejournal.com]

I realised I'd forgotten Britain BC :-).

And, erm... none of them are *directly* connected to college work. Though you have to admit, the historiographical context of Biggles has a distinct appeal. If you're interested in comparing current attitudes to a mid-20th C anthropological / socio-political perspective. Possibly :->.

Yeah, I know, that didn't really make much sense.

As for the late night badfic... It's got to the stage where I'm reading stuff I don't need to remember, so it hardly matters if I fall to sleep. Whereas I'd quite like to be able to recall the content of most of those books.

Hope your day is going well.

Tx

[yragg.livejournal.com]

Sends reassurance.

I have five on the go at the mo.

Margaret Atwood - Alais Grace
Carlos Ruiz Zafon - The Shadow of the Wind
Robert Rodi - Closet Case
Marion Zimmer Bradley/Julian May/Andre Norton - Black Trillium
Octavia E Butler - Mind of my Mind

There's nothing wrong at all having a week with books, it works wonders for me. Reading and listening to music at the same time is one of my favorite things to do.

[selenay]

Are the Trillium books good? I keep looking at them and thinking that I should try them, but never quite managing it.

My idea of heaven: a sofa, a stack of good books, some good music and a mug of tea. Possibly some chocolate, too. Having a week free for that kind of thing would just be bliss *sigh*

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Not so much "on the go", but to be attacked sequentially:

A Darkling Plain - Philip Reeve
The Cell - Stephen King
The Belly of the Bow - KJ Parker
The Proof House - KJ Parker (follows BotB, so it'd be silly to read them together)
PDF Hacks - O'Reilly
iText in Action - the authors of iText

I don't really know whether to count those last two: they're technical books, but I will be reading them across the fiction, albeit at work. Oh hell, no I won't. I'll read them at home too. I am that sad...

[selenay]

This was just a not so subtle way of finding out what my f-list is reading and seeing whether you lot come up with good books for me to try :-)) What are the KJ Parker books about? Are they good?

I'd probably count the technical books, if you're readign them on your own time :-) The third book in my list is a history book and I've been known to devour the odd technical book. Often for fun rather than for career :-)

[paranoidangel]

I'm currently reading the first His Dark Materials book, and Human Nature (on the BBC site) in advance of the episode, and a Bugs book and one of the History of Britain books.

And I won't see Doctor Who till Sunday night as I'm away this weekend. Which actually describes most of the weekends Doctor Who is on - Saturdays are really not a good night to have telly on :)

[selenay]

I read the first half of the first His Dark Materials book and got distracted by other shiny books. I really need to go back and read it properly, then nick the rest from my father :-)

Which History of Britain are you reading?

And you do seem to be away on Satudays a lot every Doctor Who run :-) It has to be Saturday, though, for tradition's sake! Guess you'll be videoing them then...

[paranoidangel]

I read the first half of the first His Dark Materials book and got distracted by other shiny books. I really need to go back and read it properly, then nick the rest from my father :-)

I only started yesterday, so I'm not very far through yet.

Which History of Britain are you reading?

Whichever one has my purple bunny bookmark in :) I managed to get through loads of stuff on why the civil war happened, then lost the will to live and had to give up for a while.

And you do seem to be away on Satudays a lot every Doctor Who run :-) It has to be Saturday, though, for tradition's sake! Guess you'll be videoing them then...

Yes. Although now I have freeview I can tape Confidential too!

And if you want a book rec, I've just had two people rec the Calypso Chronicles (http://www.calypsochronicles.com/) books to me. I've only got as far as ordering it from the library (cos nothing is in the Wallingford branch). It looks good to me, though, and I liked the sample chapter on the website.