Reading Wednesday

Finished reading: Phantom by Jo Nesbø. It's a typical Harry Hole page-turner, though not one of Nesbø's better novels. Overall, not one I would recommend, though I'm not sure how I would rate it in the grand scheme of the series. One thing that I did like, though, is that there were a lot of callbacks to The Redeemer, with a few characters from that novel appearing in brief roles. Since I read that one recently, it was nice to see, and I hadn't really expected it because I don't remember much of that happening in The Leopard (though it's been quite a while since I last read that one).

Currently reading: Sourcery by Terry Pratchett. I only remember the vague details of how this novel ends, so it'll be an interesting ride on the way there. ... I must admit that even though I've read this novel before, it only just clicked that the sourcerer is called such because he's a source of magic. [/facedesk] I think this is probably even laid out explicitly in the book, but I didn't get it until now. Anyway. Not too many thoughts on this one, except I find it a bit less quotable than some of the ones that came before it. And I like Conina a lot. And I feel a little bad for Coin (though let's see if I'll continue to feel that way when I get to the end).

Reading next: I actually have no idea. While I have more Jo Nesbø to read, I kind of want to hold off on that for now. So, the next book will probably either be Pat Cadigan's Tea From an Empty Cup, or some nonfiction. Or something else. Maybe a saga? I think I have Egil's Saga floating around somewhere in my book piles....

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☆ Still feeling sniffy and useless, still ignoring my to-do list because my brain can't handle anything that takes concentration. It's a little troublesome, because watching things pile up always makes me nervous, but everything on that list is stuff that can wait, so it's fine. I don't have anything to worry about.

☆ No submissions for Nordipalooza yet... I am going to interpret this to mean that everyone has decided to take the full time provided to them in order to get their submissions done. Let's be real, that's usually what happens anyway, and typically the only one to have their submission done in the first few days that posting is open is -- well, me.

☆ Received some new fragrance in the mail this week, and I'm incredibly disgruntled because I can't smell it. This cold needs to clear up ASAP, seriously.

☆ I've started listening to Apocalyptica again. When I was in high school, I tried them out a little, but they didn't click for me. Now, they suit my taste better. Anyway - man, are they ever awesome. Metal music played on cellos? Yessss please. I'm still catching up on all of the albums I missed, so it's hard to pick favourite songs. But Misconstruction and Quutamo are pretty cool. My favourite back then and now is still the same song though - their cover of Edvard Grieg's Hall of the Mountain King. I am not a Grieg fan at all, but Apocalyptica makes it sound so badass.

☆ The tracklist for my Redtail FST is finished, and I've decided on the order for everything. Now I just need to put together all of the extra material - there are a lot of instrumentals in this, as well as some songs in Finnish, so I'm going to want to include some brief discussions of reason for the song choices. This is probably the fastest I've ever put a tracklist for a fanmix together. Usually I take months on these things. The idea of including some Sibelius on there just plain didn't work out - it didn't mesh with the rest, so I swapped him out - but now I'm kind of curious about the idea of putting together a mix made up entirely from classical music. Not necessarily for this fandom, I'm not sure how well it would fit, but maybe for something else. Would have to do a lot more investigating, though, since that's a really broad form of music, and not one that I have much experience with at all.