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thessalian) wrote2006-03-07 10:44 am
thessalian) wrote2006-03-07 10:44 am
Retrial
So now that I've been book shopping, another update on how the 50bookchallenge is going.
Read:
Devices and Desires
Holistic Herbal: A Safe and Practical Guide to Making and Using Herbal Remedies
Cunninghams's Encyclopaedia of Magical Herbs
House of Leaves
The Bloody Chamber
Tipping the Velvet
Furnace
Neutron Star
Neuromancer
Memoirs of a Geisha
Lolita
Total: 11
In Progress:
Dune
The Bhagavad Gita
Beowulf
The Bible
The Secret History
Currently Reading:
The Secret History
Next Up:
Dune
I've had to kind of revise the format for my "Books Read" list because, frankly, my literary mood swings are prodigious and legendary. I might start up reading one book, then find the next morning that I'm just not in the mood at that point and pick up something else. The best way to ensure that I get through a book is to take it with me on the commute and ensure that it is the only book I take on the commute. However, since I've been home for the last week, with tonsil-based lurgy and fever wrecking my attention span, I've now progressed partway through nearly half a dozen new books. That's not counting the RPG sourcebooks (Changeling!), graphic novels and rereads.
So I'm in the middle of The Secret History at the moment. I like the way it sets itself up, and I do rather feel for the narrator. So thanks to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
weaselbitch for the suggestion; that one's on my list of books that make me glad I took on the challenge (along with Memoirs of a Geisha and Tipping the Velvet).
In other news, I am going over the stuff that accrued over the week-plus that I was away. On the way, I found a couple of author queries from people to whom I sent decisions yesterday, but (thorough being the watchword) I checked anyway. Almost nothing I sent out yesterday went. Fifteen emails down the fucking drain that I now have to retype. Argh, argh, ARGH. So not only do I have to repeat everything I did yesterday, but I have to put together a bunch of papers for decision for Ham-Fisted Editor, who doesn't seem to understand that his request for six papers with referees' opinions rather depends on having six papers with referees' opinions, and that I cannot pull expert commentary out of my arse for him. Argh.
Read:
Devices and Desires
Holistic Herbal: A Safe and Practical Guide to Making and Using Herbal Remedies
Cunninghams's Encyclopaedia of Magical Herbs
House of Leaves
The Bloody Chamber
Tipping the Velvet
Furnace
Neutron Star
Neuromancer
Memoirs of a Geisha
Lolita
Total: 11
In Progress:
Dune
The Bhagavad Gita
Beowulf
The Bible
The Secret History
Currently Reading:
The Secret History
Next Up:
Dune
I've had to kind of revise the format for my "Books Read" list because, frankly, my literary mood swings are prodigious and legendary. I might start up reading one book, then find the next morning that I'm just not in the mood at that point and pick up something else. The best way to ensure that I get through a book is to take it with me on the commute and ensure that it is the only book I take on the commute. However, since I've been home for the last week, with tonsil-based lurgy and fever wrecking my attention span, I've now progressed partway through nearly half a dozen new books. That's not counting the RPG sourcebooks (Changeling!), graphic novels and rereads.
So I'm in the middle of The Secret History at the moment. I like the way it sets itself up, and I do rather feel for the narrator. So thanks to
weaselbitch for the suggestion; that one's on my list of books that make me glad I took on the challenge (along with Memoirs of a Geisha and Tipping the Velvet).In other news, I am going over the stuff that accrued over the week-plus that I was away. On the way, I found a couple of author queries from people to whom I sent decisions yesterday, but (thorough being the watchword) I checked anyway. Almost nothing I sent out yesterday went. Fifteen emails down the fucking drain that I now have to retype. Argh, argh, ARGH. So not only do I have to repeat everything I did yesterday, but I have to put together a bunch of papers for decision for Ham-Fisted Editor, who doesn't seem to understand that his request for six papers with referees' opinions rather depends on having six papers with referees' opinions, and that I cannot pull expert commentary out of my arse for him. Argh.