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Feb. 3rd, 2016 02:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittydesadeWelp. Because getting lightly (not grabbed, just circled) accosted by a random person on the street a block from work and outside of a police station and yelled abuse at was exactly what the day needed.
I have taken aspirin for the headache, I was going to report it to the police but there were no police in the station, presumably out on patrol (it's a very small, sort of satellite office thing) and having reported it to the garage security worker who was there, and since I have no major day jobligations I am going to do my Wednesday Reads posts before I start writing because that's what I want to do.
Pretty much I only read two (three) authors, Tanya Huff's Fifth Quarter and No Quarter, which were enjoyable even if I did want to punch some people. And even if I think one of the characters in the book got off relatively lightly. Still enjoyable! And towards the end some of the characters in the first book made an appearance too, so that was fun.
And then, because Amazon had the other two books for $2 and I wanted to see if I wanted them, I started Angelfall by Susan Ee and it is first person present tense, which is jarring sometimes, and her writing grace fails her sometimes, but ahahahahah oh god the story and the characters are engaging and fun. It's a YA trilogy, the second and third are World After and End of Days and there's some fast and loose with the mythology in ways that don't entirely hang together/seem like they're fast and loose so the plot can move along and the characters can do cool shit, and I don't care because the whole thing amused me. The two main characters spend their entire courtship insulting each other in the insecure annoyed I'm-cranky-and-rattled-and-nitpicking ways. It's awesome. I enjoyed it.
The third author is Eric Foner because I'm still reading Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad only I'm reading it in chunks before bed.
And I've started on Kevin Hearne's Iron Druid series, which is not bad! I do not at all regret buying them, although oh my god the first book does suffer from beginning novelist syndrome don't put your entire exposition within the space of ten fucking pages dude. I don't care how much you spackle it over with "but tell me how you" no! No no no. You are not good enough to do ten solid pages of straight exposition. No. Bad. Other than that though, I'm enjoying. And I need to finish Kate Elliott's Jaran, but I haven't been taking as much straight time out for reading lately. Should fix that.
I have taken aspirin for the headache, I was going to report it to the police but there were no police in the station, presumably out on patrol (it's a very small, sort of satellite office thing) and having reported it to the garage security worker who was there, and since I have no major day jobligations I am going to do my Wednesday Reads posts before I start writing because that's what I want to do.
Pretty much I only read two (three) authors, Tanya Huff's Fifth Quarter and No Quarter, which were enjoyable even if I did want to punch some people. And even if I think one of the characters in the book got off relatively lightly. Still enjoyable! And towards the end some of the characters in the first book made an appearance too, so that was fun.
And then, because Amazon had the other two books for $2 and I wanted to see if I wanted them, I started Angelfall by Susan Ee and it is first person present tense, which is jarring sometimes, and her writing grace fails her sometimes, but ahahahahah oh god the story and the characters are engaging and fun. It's a YA trilogy, the second and third are World After and End of Days and there's some fast and loose with the mythology in ways that don't entirely hang together/seem like they're fast and loose so the plot can move along and the characters can do cool shit, and I don't care because the whole thing amused me. The two main characters spend their entire courtship insulting each other in the insecure annoyed I'm-cranky-and-rattled-and-nitpicking ways. It's awesome. I enjoyed it.
The third author is Eric Foner because I'm still reading Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad only I'm reading it in chunks before bed.
And I've started on Kevin Hearne's Iron Druid series, which is not bad! I do not at all regret buying them, although oh my god the first book does suffer from beginning novelist syndrome don't put your entire exposition within the space of ten fucking pages dude. I don't care how much you spackle it over with "but tell me how you" no! No no no. You are not good enough to do ten solid pages of straight exposition. No. Bad. Other than that though, I'm enjoying. And I need to finish Kate Elliott's Jaran, but I haven't been taking as much straight time out for reading lately. Should fix that.