Okay, so life doesn't entirely suck :)
Apr. 23rd, 2002 09:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annathepiperI got a new photo album today, to put my Great Big Sea pictures in -- I've gotten so many from Mary that I figured it was high time I gave them their own album. And I really like the one I picked, because it's got paper pages interspersed between the photo pages, so that you can take all kinds of notes about what's in the pictures and everything. It also occurred to me, as I was putting the pictures into place, that I could also use the pages for any further Autograph Opportunities that might arise, should I get within talking distance of my favorite Newfoundlanders again. ;) It'd be nice to actually ask them for an autograph MYSELF.
Amy Chused is staying with us again for a week and she brought us chocolate. Yum yum yum.
Becky says she's reading Elfquest, which amuses me; she says her favorite character so far is Treestump.
I've read a few new books lately. The Dragon DelaSangre kind of disappointed me; it touts itself as another of the "give a good look at previously misunderstood monsters" sorts of books, but the protagonist acted in ways that struck me as fairly stupid, yet were apparently required to make the plot go. And although the impression given by the blurb was that his greatest desire was to find a woman of his own kind, he does this fairly quickly on in the story and the main thrust of the plot is about something else entirely -- and furthermore, the mate he winds up choosing strikes me pretty much as a bitch. Even aside from that these characters weren't supposed to be humans, they were supposed to be dragons, I just couldn't find them sympathetic at all. I've read plenty of books that feature vampires or werewolves or elves and have found at least something with which to sympathize in their protagonists, but nothing was there for me.
Living Dead in Dallas, on the other hand, was a fun read -- a sequel to Dead Until Dark, which I'd liked a lot. And here we have examples of books in which I do in fact find something to sympathize with in supernatural characters. The heroine is a telepath, and her love interest is a vampire.
I was kind of bummed by Tami Hoag's latest, Dust to Dust, though. Good writing from her as always, very gripping and suspenseful, but the ending wasn't exactly happy -- and I missed the romantic chemistry that's a big factor of a lot of her other books. She's got another one coming out this fall, but it'll be a while before I get to read that in paperback.
My little brother has sent me a lengthy email with a report on the descendants of James Beaumount Highland, our great-great-grandfather, who was apparently born in 1848. It traces down through his son Marcus, who was the father of our grandpa Burgoyne, and then down through Dad and me and my brothers. It's pretty cool. I'm looking forward to seeing what else Marc digs up.
I fixed the broken compiler on murkworks.net, finding the proper libraries to upgrade with Gyles' help. Go me!
And tomorrow: GREAT! BIG! SEA!
Amy Chused is staying with us again for a week and she brought us chocolate. Yum yum yum.
Becky says she's reading Elfquest, which amuses me; she says her favorite character so far is Treestump.
I've read a few new books lately. The Dragon DelaSangre kind of disappointed me; it touts itself as another of the "give a good look at previously misunderstood monsters" sorts of books, but the protagonist acted in ways that struck me as fairly stupid, yet were apparently required to make the plot go. And although the impression given by the blurb was that his greatest desire was to find a woman of his own kind, he does this fairly quickly on in the story and the main thrust of the plot is about something else entirely -- and furthermore, the mate he winds up choosing strikes me pretty much as a bitch. Even aside from that these characters weren't supposed to be humans, they were supposed to be dragons, I just couldn't find them sympathetic at all. I've read plenty of books that feature vampires or werewolves or elves and have found at least something with which to sympathize in their protagonists, but nothing was there for me.
Living Dead in Dallas, on the other hand, was a fun read -- a sequel to Dead Until Dark, which I'd liked a lot. And here we have examples of books in which I do in fact find something to sympathize with in supernatural characters. The heroine is a telepath, and her love interest is a vampire.
I was kind of bummed by Tami Hoag's latest, Dust to Dust, though. Good writing from her as always, very gripping and suspenseful, but the ending wasn't exactly happy -- and I missed the romantic chemistry that's a big factor of a lot of her other books. She's got another one coming out this fall, but it'll be a while before I get to read that in paperback.
My little brother has sent me a lengthy email with a report on the descendants of James Beaumount Highland, our great-great-grandfather, who was apparently born in 1848. It traces down through his son Marcus, who was the father of our grandpa Burgoyne, and then down through Dad and me and my brothers. It's pretty cool. I'm looking forward to seeing what else Marc digs up.
I fixed the broken compiler on murkworks.net, finding the proper libraries to upgrade with Gyles' help. Go me!
And tomorrow: GREAT! BIG! SEA!