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Uneventful weekend. I meant to do laundry, and grocery shopping, and accounts, but what I wound up actually doing was read (I finished Shopgirl and read The Golden Compass, Hoot to Kill, and Trader) and go to a movie (Girl with a Pearl Earring) with Esther. The girl at Cinema du Parc was nice enough to extend my membership by a month, since I'd failed to use up 6 of the 8 punches and it was expired. Oops.
Shopgirl continued to be slight, even when considered as a whole. Very obviously a first novel. The omniscient narrator continues to bug me ("'I'm fixing myself too,' he says. They realize that they will forever after have something to talk about." WTF?).
I liked The Golden Compass a lot. I've been sort of eyeing those books suspiciously for some time. It certainly had its flaws, but it was well worth reading and has me panting to get hold of the next one. Lyra's a delightful character -- a stubborn, resourceful, lying little barbarian of an 11-year-old girl.
Hoot to Kill, despite the title, was pretty good. Not one for the ages, and the dialogue a little clunky in places, but fun.
And I loved Trader, which by some oversight (and a crap review) I hadn't got around to until now. Hadn't realized it was one of his Newford books, and for once didn't feature the tin ear for dialogue that de Lint occasionally displays.
So the pile of books by the bed continues to shrink.
New PM started today. Poor girl has a ton o' stuff to read, but I think she'll do fine. Work is still busy, which makes me happy; no need to stretch it all out!
pepysdiary.Within all the morning. About noon comes one that had formerly known me and I him, but I know not his name, to borrow 5l. of me, but I had the wit to deny him.Quick thinking, Sam!
Uneventful weekend. I meant to do laundry, and grocery shopping, and accounts, but what I wound up actually doing was read (I finished Shopgirl and read The Golden Compass, Hoot to Kill, and Trader) and go to a movie (Girl with a Pearl Earring) with Esther. The girl at Cinema du Parc was nice enough to extend my membership by a month, since I'd failed to use up 6 of the 8 punches and it was expired. Oops.
Shopgirl continued to be slight, even when considered as a whole. Very obviously a first novel. The omniscient narrator continues to bug me ("'I'm fixing myself too,' he says. They realize that they will forever after have something to talk about." WTF?).
I liked The Golden Compass a lot. I've been sort of eyeing those books suspiciously for some time. It certainly had its flaws, but it was well worth reading and has me panting to get hold of the next one. Lyra's a delightful character -- a stubborn, resourceful, lying little barbarian of an 11-year-old girl.
Hoot to Kill, despite the title, was pretty good. Not one for the ages, and the dialogue a little clunky in places, but fun.
And I loved Trader, which by some oversight (and a crap review) I hadn't got around to until now. Hadn't realized it was one of his Newford books, and for once didn't feature the tin ear for dialogue that de Lint occasionally displays.
So the pile of books by the bed continues to shrink.
New PM started today. Poor girl has a ton o' stuff to read, but I think she'll do fine. Work is still busy, which makes me happy; no need to stretch it all out!
