Brief update

[blissfish]

*Our taxes are done, e-filed, and have been accepted by the IRS.  w00t.

*I did give in and make onigiri today.  The sweet, brief pain of wasabi always makes me happy.  It took most of my energy though.

*Yes, still feeling like ass.  Still running a fever off and on, and going from freezing to broiling pretty quickly.

*I'm really done with fever-dreams.  So far in the past two days, my husband has left me in especially petty fashion, my kitten has died in the dryer, I've fallen down an endless staircase, and there's been acid in my teacup.  Darn fever dreams.

*I'm reading Perdido Street Station.  I'm caught between enjoying the story, wishing the nomenclature didn't remind me so much of Storm Constantine's in Wraeththu, and thinking Mieville will be a great writer one of these days.  [hides from things being tossed at my head by serendipitygirl].

*Darling hubby is going out dancing tonight.  I am going back to bed.

Comments

[serendipitygirl.livejournal.com]

*headtilts* I've read the one book luv, it takes a wee bit more than that to make me a twittering fangirl. ;) Having said that, I think his prose reminds me more of Gaiman than Constantine (odd fact: I finished rereading Wraeththu just before starting this.) I'm told this is a good book but by no means his best by....well a good many people so I suppose we shall see.
Hope you manage to ditch the MDF* soon.



*Martian Deathwatch Flu - the microbes look like tiny little tripods

[blissfish.livejournal.com]

The prose is quite Gaimanesque, yes. It's the naming of things that strikes me as very Wraeththu. At least while reading about the Megalithica territories.

But I'm on NyQuil and could be imagining the whole thing.

[serendipitygirl.livejournal.com]

*ponders*
You might have something there - the one is so recent with newness in my recollections and the other less so so my own perspective (of course) biases.
On some reflection, I hadn't really considered the naming of things within the text. Which is .... odd.

On a wholly (mostly) unrelated note: when you read the original three Wraeththu books, did you get the sense that the Har renamed everything (as is stated in the latter books?) or, like me, did you think the names were simply to show how far in the future it was?

[blissfish.livejournal.com]

I got the impression that everything was renamed to blur any sense of temporal distance, and to make the names of everything fit in with the moods of each region and tribe. But mostly because it fit better with Constantine's flair for the gracefully melodramatic.

[serendipitygirl.livejournal.com]

Hee. Excellent. Esp. the Nail on the Head re: "Gracefully melodramatic" (though the newer books are a bit better about that....strangely, they do lack some of the grace of the earlier ones. One takes the good with the bad I suppose.)
I will say that reading those *now* put a rather ............... different spin on them than when I first read them. ;)

[serendipitygirl.livejournal.com]

Btw two things:
1. Right now I am wearing the exact friction of stars. :) Yay geek smelly stuff!
2. Check your email, I just sent you some musics.
Off to watch Dexter now.

[jenmarie.livejournal.com]

I have The Scar for sure and I think I have Iron Council too (I might have checked that one out from the library, though) if you want more New Crobuzon.