we're not unreasonable - i mean, no one's gonna eat your eyes

[schmerica]

Vacation so far has been pretty much nothing but reading. Books read so far--

Rubicon: the Last Years of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland. Ancient history, amazingly good.

Point of Honour by Madeleine E. Robins. First in the Sarah Tolerance; alternate history Regency noir. AWESOME.

Black Powder War by Naomi Novik. Less to my taste than the first two Temeraire books (more battle scenes and less characterization and society stuff), but still very good.

Uglies by Scott Westerfeld. I've been somewhat iffy on the whole "YA novels taking place in future seems-to-be-utopia-which-turns-out-to-be-dystopia rebellion oh noes!" genre ever since I was the only person in the world not to like The Giver, but this was pretty fun, and gets better as it goes along; I'll be reading the rest of the trilogy.

Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman. Currently about two thirds of the way through. I'm not in love with it -- it might be my least favorite Gaiman so far. But my least favorite Gaiman is still worlds ahead of most other stuff.

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My official soundtrack for my weeklong summer vacation, if you are curious, consists of two songs: Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard doing "Pancho and Lefty," and Jonathan Coulton doing "Re: Your Brains." Make of this what you will.

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My father brought home strawberries today from the roadstands! Oh frabjous day, calloo, callay! (Fresh summer fruit is on my list of things that one is better off buying from the side of the road than an actual stores. Not on this list: everything else in the entire world.)

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My parents' dvd player is not working right this week, apparently. It will play some stuff, but not others, with very little method to its madness. One of the things that does work, apparently, are all of my sister's first season NCIS dvds. So, uh. Maybe I'll be watching that in between my reading? Hm.

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If I were in the mood to buy comics, a) what would you guy recommend, especially in terms of collections? and b) where is a good place to buy online?

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Callum Keith Rennie is hot.

Comments

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Hee. I have only seen a couple episodes here and there from the season that just ended, when I was home visiting -- apparently it is the show my parents and sister all watch together, now that Joan of Arcadia is gone. I haven't been especially charmed so far, but it's entertaining enough to watch without thinking for me.

[myriad69.livejournal.com]

My dad just loves it, but I've always thought "meh", and then we watched it with him at Christmas and got HOOKED! It's snarky and funny and has pretty decent mysteries. Plus, it's snarky. And you can pair everyone with everyone else and it works. And did I mention the snarkiness?

Plus, Abby rules.