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roadtrip!
it's a very small roadtrip, but... roadtrip!
hopefully the rain will hold off, and the twisty coast-highway will be beautiful, and at the end of it there will be good food and a warm place to sleep by the ocean.
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[booklog 2006]
85. - 87. The Summer Tree, The Wandering Fire, and The Darkest Road, the Fionavar trilogy by Guy Gavriel Kay. yet more good fluff courtesy of vyrin, this time in the form of densely-packed fantasy motifs...of DOOOOOM! also, naming your characters "Aileron" and "Tandem" does not help me to take things seriously. but that's ok, i don't have to.
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a gift, in the sunset
today was a sweet day; a perfect day, like the song says.
there was long lazy sleep, with no nightmares, and then i met jencallisto and we wandered through the tail end of the farmer's market. we ate satsumas in the afternoon sunshine, and the band played 'Midnight Train to Georgia.' we had a lunch of thanksgiving leftovers, much very good conversation ( Read more... ) -
[booklog 2006]
76. 1602, Neil Gaiman, Andy Kubert, Richard Isanove. Beautiful, and a good story indeed. I picked up dragonvpm's copy in El Paso and read half of it there, but didn't manage to finish it until borrowing asarwate's the other week. I might have to read it again before I give it back.
77. - 81. Dragon, Five Hundred Years After, The Paths of the Dead, The Lord of ( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
just a roll-call for my own records, this time, going short on the commentary.
65. Phantoms in the Brain, V.S. Ramachandran. a re-read, still good.
66. The Forgotten Beasts of Eld, Patricia McKillip. fairy tales, fluff.
67. The Book of Jhereg (containing Jhereg, Yendi, and Teckla),
68. The Book of Taltos (containing Taltos and Phoenix),
69. The ( Read more... ) -
come around the circle again, that time of year
a small thing, for now: Halloween thoughts and some bits of lovely ghost stories, from Neil Gaiman, in the New York Times today. -
laughter and memory and stubbornness
a few links, first.
from nacht_musik, who knows how to make me smile:
Kermit the Frog and Sandra Bullock, with another Mahna song...Phenomena! (even better, the phrase "Ik zie allemaal rare beestjes...")
from Zoz:
a series of video clips on/by Tats Cru, with some good footage of the creation of their Big Jimmy memorial mural, and other bits from their time ( Read more... ) -
[booklog 2006]
I know I've lost track of some of the books lately, but here's a few from the stack of recently-read.
59. & 60. Brokedown Palace & The Phoenix Guards, Stephen Brust. Mmmtasty fluff. I could use some more of this...
61. Bloodchild and Other Stories, Octavia E. Butler. I've read one other of her books, and liked it despite the tendency to ( Read more... ) -
brief cemetery photojournal
I went a-wandering this afternoon, down to the Mt. Auburn Cemetery on Piedmont Avenue, down the street from my house. The stones aren't old by east-coast standards, or by Spanish-mission ones either, but there are names from all over the world. It's a lovely place to go, winding roads and sidewalks spiraling up little hills, strange names and ( Read more... )