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[aamcnamara]

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I had been working on this in bits and drabs, and then I didn't write for a few days--I'm not sure why, except that it was far too hot out and I needed a break. Also, endings are hard.

But it rained and other happy things happened and anyway I made a bunch of progress today, and hit 80k words, and I am reassured in where I am going and how fast. There's a hidden subplot I never really put in, but... well. That's what revisions are for.

Some books I read in the meantime:
Stepsister Scheme: I had thought for a while I should read one of Hines' books. It was entertaining--some dark material, but done up in a fluffy wrapper. If the library had had the sequel when I went to look for it, I definitely would've checked it out--I still might reserve it, though I seem to be running out of summer.
A Game of Kings, on recommendation of csecooney. Delightful! I was saddened by some parts of this book (why?!) but entertained by many others. Overall, though, I quite enjoyed it. I would like to read the sequels--I suspect that I can get them at my college library, so I will try to do that.
...I feel like I read something else recently, too, but I can't remember what it was. Maybe I'll think of it. That's the trouble with not writing things up right after you read them.

Right now I'm reading The Female Man, and rather liking it. It's like a post-modern feminist The Dispossessed, with less physics. (I just went to see what history thought of this summation. Apparently they were published in the same year, but Female Man was written first. Which sums up a lot of how I've been reading SF literature from the past.)

Comments

[csecooney.livejournal.com]

You read it! You read it FAST! You said DELIGHTFUL!
*dances!*

[aamcnamara.livejournal.com]

Thank you for suggesting it!

[csecooney.livejournal.com]

Just WAIT 'til you get to France in the next book! And then the opium dens. And then RUSSIA! (Oh, that's the killer. Russia. Waaahhh!) Oh, but then. In England. THEN! And France again in the final book. That terrible, gorgeous final book. That BOOK that made my eyeballs twitch and gave me a sort of nervous breakdown and/or joyful out of body religious experience at dawn of the last day after a week and a half of doing nothing but read...

[aamcnamara.livejournal.com]

I look forward to it! I like it when people tell me books to read, 'cause I know there is so much good out there I am missing, but just walking around libraries picking up books will only get you so far.

[aliseadae]

Would I like it?

[aamcnamara.livejournal.com]

You probably would! Lymond reminded me in bits of characters like the Mad Duke and Chrestomanci, but he is entirely his own person (as are both the others).

[aliseadae]

Ooh. Mm.

[vcmw]

Maybe I will need to try The Game of Kings again.
I got bogged down in it but I think it's because I was reading it based on the recommend of romance readers and so I was expecting some romance to get going early on. When this didn't happen I got confused.

[aamcnamara.livejournal.com]

Yeah--there is a romance element, but I wouldn't suggest solely reading for that. Read it for wit, trickery, politics, and the people, and the romance falls in after those.

[aliseadae]

Ooh. Maybe I would like it. I like wit, trickery, politics, and people.