On reading, restaurants, & road work

[ajodasso]

My new job is treating me well, but, for these first few weeks, that hasn't always been the case with my commute. Tuesday, yesterday, and today are the first three days I've managed to make my preferred start-time, which are minor victories. I've missed working in an academic museum environment, although the commute is still substantially long

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[ladynorbert]

I also did not much care for Tale of the Body Thief. The first three books are very enjoyable, though, my personal favorite being Queen of the Damned.

[ajodasso]

The Queen of the Damned is not only my favorite book in this series, but also quite possibly one of my favorite books of all time. I like it for reasons similar to why I like American Gods, actually; both cover a huge amount of ground and have sections that feel like short stories, quiet little glimpses that don't bear directly on the main plot, but which nonetheless have profound impact on / resonance with the greater whole.

[teithiwr]

Slow and dense describes my reading experience of Hild pretty well. But oh, I loved that book. Will be interested to hear what you think of it.

[ajodasso]

I get the impression that a sequel is on the way, if I'm not mistaken? Saw the author say that somewhere.

[teithiwr]

Yes, so I've heard! Really looking forward to it.

[ladymouse2]

Hoping the weather will level off soon enough to give you back some needed energy for just plain living! So sorry for everyone stuck in that killer winter weather. Be warm, be safe. Thrilled you have a museum job again.

> Many of you also know I have intense issues with character-torture that does nothing to further plot or teach me anything new about, well, the characters involved. Hurt the ones I hold dear without sound narrative cause to do so, and I will have it in for you until such time as you fix what went wrong. And if you don't fix it, if I'm mad enough, sometimes I'll even fix it myself.<

Never been a major reader of vampire books (no prejudice against them, just a spotty interest) but gratuitous torture porn gets me exactly where you also describe and I too have done "fix-its" as well as walking severely away from said author often for the duration.

[ajodasso]

The only vampire books I've loved and will recommend to people are the first three Vampire Chronicles (as named above), plus Let the Right One In (the Swedish novel on which the excellent Swedish film adaptation is based; I didn't care for the US remake of the Swedish film, bleh) and Sunshine by Robin McKinley (and I suppose maybe I maintain a soft spot for I Am Legend, the novel). Vampire stories, in order to really grab me, have to be vampire stories with a difference.

[noeon]

Belated congratulations on your new position!!!!

[ajodasso]

Thank you <3 How are you doing, by the by? Keeping warm, I hope.

[noeon]

I just put up a super whiny lj post, but I am all right. Tired! We've been on duty a lot, and the snow is just awful. However, we are WARM! Yay!

PS <3<3<3

[ajodasso]

Your whining is entirely called for, and your pun is MASTERFUL <3

[ajodasso]

Hild was sent to me last month by ida_pea, and she is one person in this world whose book recs have never done me wrong. It's doing well by 7th century Britain so far!