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kittydesadeWell, that was one of the dumber things I've done in a while. Capoeira today was Groot has become lamed by his own ridiculousness, which is to say he broke his foot trying to get logging done (as he's in the middle of a bunch of work projects, and his work is metal sculpture as tall as he is, and there's a REASON I call him Groot), I was inexplicably dizzy and I still have not accounted for it and I am SO CRANKY that I'm still having to be this careful. And then there was Puck, who was actually healthy but said I looked like he felt last night so, um. And then there was a new guy. So we only did movement exercises for about forty five minutes, so I figured eh it's just forty five, I'll take it easy, I'll be FINE.
If any of you are ever in my vicinity, physically, when I'm at a capoeira practice or doing exercise, and I tell you I'll take it easy? Do me a favor and sit on my legs until I agree to take a couple pre-emptive puffs on my inhaler.
So, you can guess what happened. Full on coughing wheezing coughing up goop because when I wheeze hard enough my body mistakes it for dry heaves asthma attack. So, yes. That was one of the dumber things I've done in a while. Four inhaler puffs and end of class later I'm fine again. Except for the vertigo, which, what the fuck, and also ARRRGH.
ANYWAY. So I guess this is a combination Wednesday Reads/bitch about my malfunctioning body post.
untonuggan kindly reminded me that Manners and Mutiny, the last of the Finishing School series was out, so I grabbed and devoured that. And now I have to go back and read her read on it. I'm... something. I'm not sure if it's been so long since I've read the rest that the enthusiasm doesn't have the first churn through the series momentum, or if it really was as disjointed in some aspects as it seemed? I'm trying to figure out how to describe what nagged at me, but I'm not sure how to except, the transitions between major scenes seemed either too long or too jarring in tone. Despite that, though, I did enjoy it quite a bit.
And then, having found my missing book I sorted out all the Phrynes, and read through 3-5 in short order. (Murder on the Ballarat Train, Death at Victoria Dock, The Green Mill Murder). They're murder mysteries, so obviously they're samey samey in the way of genre series with strict convention, I add this caveat mostly because in the last couple years I ran into a friend who *gasp, clutch pearls* doesn't like police procedurals. Look, I watched Criminal Minds up through season five? six? Whenever the bizarre Irish Mafia plotline started getting going, so I LOVE procedurals. So in our conversations about television I ended up saying a lot, well, I liked this, but probably BECAUSE it was a procedural so you probably wouldn't. So here I say, it is a murder mystery, with all of the prerequisites of murder mysteries checked off, and that tends to be a very identical checklist from book to book.
That said, I do like Kerry Greenwood's style of writing, the books are different from the TV show but I like them almost as much. (Look, I'm a sucker for the Nathan Page-Essie Davis chemistry, that's pretty much the big thing in the TV show's favor.) I did, coming to it from the TV show, have one moment of realization of holy shit these books are way darker and several people are way more hateful than they were in the show. Like, there's unexpected incest and a whole plot that was mostly about a family misunderstanding each other in the TV show turns out to be an evil mother trying to play her sons against each other so she inherits everything holy shit. Wow. But again, not detracting from the enjoyment! Just a surprise.
Um. What else. I am further into Karen Memory than a couple of pages! And while Elizabeth Bear's dialect for the book is incredibly strong (was Blood and Iron like this? I didn't get very far into it because the Kindle formatting for it at the time SUCKED and was very hard to read) I'm finding it kind of intriguing. There are a few phrases here and there that, I don't know if it's the narrating character's attitude that throws me out or the turn of phrase or both. It's not as relaxing rest sit back and devour as, say, a Phryne mystery, but it's fun. I'm enjoying it, I'm looking forward to reading the whole thing. If it helps, so far it reminds me of a lighthearted steampunk Deadwood. Yes, I just said a lighthearted Deadwood.
Oh, and I read Saga vol 5, which I think is the most recent volume so I think I'm current on that. Still enjoying it! Rather cranky about one character death, though. I liked her, dammit. ... actually that volume made me cranky in a couple of BUT YOU WERE DOING SO WELL/I LIKED HER DAMMIT ways. Still going to keep reading though, still enjoying.
I may, however, have to give up on Trailer Park Fae. The whole thing is ornate as hell without having any kind of underlying structure to support the ornateness, not in terms of overall plot so much as in terms of meat on the bones of each scene. Or maybe I mean tendons. There's actions, and there's ornate words to describe it, but it's hard to find the connection between the two. Plus I find myself just entirely apathetic about everyone and everything that's going on in it, which, usually urban fantasy is my thing. This, not so much. I may go back and finish it later, but right now I'm glad I only paid 2$ for this.
In the meantime I have a bunch of Trigun to read, Karen Memory to finish. and then either more Kerry Greenwood to get or other people's Wednesday Reads lists to peruse to look for recs. Either one. Oh, and I'm looking at reading Borderline and Company Town next, anyone have anything to say about those?
If any of you are ever in my vicinity, physically, when I'm at a capoeira practice or doing exercise, and I tell you I'll take it easy? Do me a favor and sit on my legs until I agree to take a couple pre-emptive puffs on my inhaler.
So, you can guess what happened. Full on coughing wheezing coughing up goop because when I wheeze hard enough my body mistakes it for dry heaves asthma attack. So, yes. That was one of the dumber things I've done in a while. Four inhaler puffs and end of class later I'm fine again. Except for the vertigo, which, what the fuck, and also ARRRGH.
ANYWAY. So I guess this is a combination Wednesday Reads/bitch about my malfunctioning body post.
untonuggan kindly reminded me that Manners and Mutiny, the last of the Finishing School series was out, so I grabbed and devoured that. And now I have to go back and read her read on it. I'm... something. I'm not sure if it's been so long since I've read the rest that the enthusiasm doesn't have the first churn through the series momentum, or if it really was as disjointed in some aspects as it seemed? I'm trying to figure out how to describe what nagged at me, but I'm not sure how to except, the transitions between major scenes seemed either too long or too jarring in tone. Despite that, though, I did enjoy it quite a bit. And then, having found my missing book I sorted out all the Phrynes, and read through 3-5 in short order. (Murder on the Ballarat Train, Death at Victoria Dock, The Green Mill Murder). They're murder mysteries, so obviously they're samey samey in the way of genre series with strict convention, I add this caveat mostly because in the last couple years I ran into a friend who *gasp, clutch pearls* doesn't like police procedurals. Look, I watched Criminal Minds up through season five? six? Whenever the bizarre Irish Mafia plotline started getting going, so I LOVE procedurals. So in our conversations about television I ended up saying a lot, well, I liked this, but probably BECAUSE it was a procedural so you probably wouldn't. So here I say, it is a murder mystery, with all of the prerequisites of murder mysteries checked off, and that tends to be a very identical checklist from book to book.
That said, I do like Kerry Greenwood's style of writing, the books are different from the TV show but I like them almost as much. (Look, I'm a sucker for the Nathan Page-Essie Davis chemistry, that's pretty much the big thing in the TV show's favor.) I did, coming to it from the TV show, have one moment of realization of holy shit these books are way darker and several people are way more hateful than they were in the show. Like, there's unexpected incest and a whole plot that was mostly about a family misunderstanding each other in the TV show turns out to be an evil mother trying to play her sons against each other so she inherits everything holy shit. Wow. But again, not detracting from the enjoyment! Just a surprise.
Um. What else. I am further into Karen Memory than a couple of pages! And while Elizabeth Bear's dialect for the book is incredibly strong (was Blood and Iron like this? I didn't get very far into it because the Kindle formatting for it at the time SUCKED and was very hard to read) I'm finding it kind of intriguing. There are a few phrases here and there that, I don't know if it's the narrating character's attitude that throws me out or the turn of phrase or both. It's not as relaxing rest sit back and devour as, say, a Phryne mystery, but it's fun. I'm enjoying it, I'm looking forward to reading the whole thing. If it helps, so far it reminds me of a lighthearted steampunk Deadwood. Yes, I just said a lighthearted Deadwood.
Oh, and I read Saga vol 5, which I think is the most recent volume so I think I'm current on that. Still enjoying it! Rather cranky about one character death, though. I liked her, dammit. ... actually that volume made me cranky in a couple of BUT YOU WERE DOING SO WELL/I LIKED HER DAMMIT ways. Still going to keep reading though, still enjoying.
I may, however, have to give up on Trailer Park Fae. The whole thing is ornate as hell without having any kind of underlying structure to support the ornateness, not in terms of overall plot so much as in terms of meat on the bones of each scene. Or maybe I mean tendons. There's actions, and there's ornate words to describe it, but it's hard to find the connection between the two. Plus I find myself just entirely apathetic about everyone and everything that's going on in it, which, usually urban fantasy is my thing. This, not so much. I may go back and finish it later, but right now I'm glad I only paid 2$ for this.
In the meantime I have a bunch of Trigun to read, Karen Memory to finish. and then either more Kerry Greenwood to get or other people's Wednesday Reads lists to peruse to look for recs. Either one. Oh, and I'm looking at reading Borderline and Company Town next, anyone have anything to say about those?