It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.*

[bending_sickle]

I emailed the slavic lady therapist person again, to another email address. Here's to hoping?

Book Meme via hesychasm

What are you reading now?

1) 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
2) The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
3) Roverandom by JRR Tolkien
4) Le Silmarillion by JRR Tolkien
5) The Worm Ouroboros by Eric Rücker Eddison
6) Defiance by Lili St. Crow^
7) Beloved Enemies: Our Need for Opponents by David P. Barash^
8) NaNoWriMo 2012 by chaosvizier
9) The Sons of Durin by KivrinEngle
10) An Unexpected Journey by TechnicolourGrey

...yeah.

^ I'll get back to these eventually.

What did you just finish?

Does it look like I finish shit? (Seriously, though, I can't remember.)

What are you planning to read next?

The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien (repeat reading)
Contes et légendes inachevés (1-3) by JRR Tolkien
The Buddhist Religion: A Historical Introduction by R.H. Robinson & W.L. Johnson
Sweet William by John Hawkes

Links of the Day:
Random:
theweaselking's What's your favourite movie that you think is obscure, and that relatively few other people will have seen, but that you think they SHOULD see? ; How machines make wire mesh (i.e. chicken wire)
sarahtales's Fandom Meta My point is that I doubt that the dudes were flawless in their handling of fiction: the problem is the insistent pattern that goes ‘SHUT UP, WOMAN’S NAME, SHUT UP!!’


* Lemony Snicket

Comments

[capn-mactastic.livejournal.com]

1Q84 is on my to-read list too, if I ever manage to get to it. Also, apt title is apt, last count I had over 600 books on my to-read pile, so at one a week that's 12 years if I don't find anything new I want to read in that time...

I've never done that calculation before 0_0

[bending-sickle.livejournal.com]

1Q84 is looking good. It's not grabbing me like Kafka on the Shore but then it is a monster of a book. (Well, technically it's a trilogy, but still, big book, so things are taking their time in happening.)

And yeah, there are too many books to read. *sigh*

[capn-mactastic.livejournal.com]

Ungh, the slow starts tend to put me off, though I force through sometimes (looking at you, Scarlett Thomas.)

Way too many books *nods* Though I've developed a taste for cosy mysteries and at least those can be read fast, lol.

[bending-sickle.livejournal.com]

The thing with 1Q84 is that (the first book at least) is set up with alternating chapters focusing on Main Character 1 (Aomame) and Main Character 2 (Tengo). Each character's chapters read as their own book, and as of 80% of the first book, they've yet to meet, but their individual storylines are interesting. Halfway through the book I started flailing because things started to crossover (like Event A mentioned by Tengo was later investigated by Aomame) so it's really interesting to see how things are starting to come together.

And you should totally put H. Murakami's Kafka on the Shore on your to-read list because it was a glorious, wonderful, beautiful book.

[capn-mactastic.livejournal.com]

Ahhh, there was a book I read as a kid that did that and I really liked it. I've always meant to do something with a vaguely similar structure but it involves plotting instead of pantsing.

Oh noes, don't encourage me :P

[bending-sickle.livejournal.com]

...it involves plotting instead of pantsing - Ah, the time-honoured method of pantsing :) Would that make us pantsers, then? *cuddles*

[capn-mactastic.livejournal.com]

*snuggles* Pantsers of the world unite! LOL, stuff I'm reading keeps saying that plotting reduces on wasted words and I'm just like 'but then I won't have any left-overs to use in other stories...'

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

I like that my story is so awesome that you didn't have the heart to make me number 8 and instead made me number seven, part two. ;-)

[bending-sickle.livejournal.com]

Correct numerical progression is for losers.