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yuuagoI STILL FEEL LIKE CRAP. But I'm getting better little-by-little, yay! Hopefully in a few days I'll be able to do all the writing that I want to do.
For now, I guess I'll talk about books. :)a Since I took a photo of all the books that I just have sitting around in a pile on my floor on account of not having the shelf space and not wanting to bring them down to my trunk in the basement because I haven't read them yet. Well, not all of them.
Okay, it doesn't look like a lot, but it feels like a lot because there are several of them and I don't have space for them and my room is small. ... Since the photo is blurry I'll list them, I suppose. From top to bottom. Why on earth can't I take photos that aren't blurry, I do not know. Anyway.
Top downward:
1. Lynn Flewelling, Stalking Darkness. Part of the Nightrunner series. Still not sure how I feel about this series... It's kind of just generic crap fantasy, really, but for some reason (possibly because it's generic crap fantasy) I keep reading.
2. Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight. Haven't read it yet. Need to get around to reading Wintersmith first. For some reason I need to be in a particular sort of mood to read Pratchett.
3. Charlotte Bronte, Villette. I'm about halfway through this... not sure how I feel about it. It isn't bad but honestly, I would probably like it more if this edition didn't leave the French dialogue untranslated. I only know enough French to maybe understand 15% of those parts, so I miss a lot. Even endnote translations would be better than nothing.
4. Clive Cussler, Dark Watch. Haven't read it yet, but I like some of his other stuff. I like the occasional dime-store action novel, what can I say.
5. Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played With Fire. You can all laugh at my taste in novels, now. ;p Man, I'm really glad I waited until I had book 3 to read this, otherwise I would've been antsy for over a year with wanting to finish the series.
6. Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House. Pretty scary in certain parts, but overall, not so much. And I kind of wanted to give the main character a stern talking-to at times, since she's such a wingnut, but I expect that was intentional on the author's part.
7. Marilyn Chase, The Barbary Plague. An interesting book on the Black Plague epidemic in San Francisco in the late 19th / early 20th century. Can't decide whether to pass this one on to the library or keep it for reference.
8. Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest. As I've mentioned before... I kind of wish there were more Millennium novels, but on the other hand, the ending of this one could hardly be better.
9. Sigrid Undset, Kristin Lavransdatter. I only have a vague idea of what it's about, but I can hardly wait to read this one. *_*
10. Knud Jespersen, A History of Denmark. Partway through this... pretty basic, I suppose, but a lot of stuff that I didn't really understand suddenly makes sense now, and some parts of history I only had a vague idea about are more rounded in my mind now, so that's great.
11. Crichton & Wheaton, Scandinavia, Ancient and Modern. This is actually a reproduction of a book from the 1920s. I have it not necessarily for the factual information (because much of it will obviously be outdated or even outright incorrect) but more because I tend to be interested in what people thought of such-and-such places at such-and-such point in time.
12. Merry Wiesner-Hanks, Early Modern Europe, 1450-1789. This is a period of history I know fuck-all about, so it should be pretty interesting. This is a textbook, so obviously it'll be pretty broad... but hey, after reading it, I expect I'll come out knowing more than I did going in, so that's something!
13. Scott Chantler, Two Generals. Sort-of a biography of the author/artist's grandfather. Honestly, I originally got the book because it's beautiful, but I expect I'll enjoy it - I always like reading things about Canada in WWII.
14. Robert Ferguson, The Hammer and the Cross. This was the first book I'd read about the viking age. In some places it kind of felt like the author was, for a better word, reaching a bit. On the other hand, it was at least interesting! Should probably get around to reading the other books I have on the viking age now... at least they're much shorter.
15. Kirby & Hinkkanen, The Baltic and the North Seas. Basically, the history of this area as it specifically relates to the sea. Looks interesting, though I suspect this will be a difficult read.
16. Jeff Lemire, Essex County. Basically a long-ass graphic novel about life in small-town Ontario, or at least that's what it looks like. Haven't read it yet, but I look forward to.
And of course I have a zillion more books packed away that I haven't even looked at yet. Some day I will get through all of them. Some. Day..
For now I will just curl up with a pile of tissues and try to get through more of Villette.
For now, I guess I'll talk about books. :)a Since I took a photo of all the books that I just have sitting around in a pile on my floor on account of not having the shelf space and not wanting to bring them down to my trunk in the basement because I haven't read them yet. Well, not all of them.
Okay, it doesn't look like a lot, but it feels like a lot because there are several of them and I don't have space for them and my room is small. ... Since the photo is blurry I'll list them, I suppose. From top to bottom. Why on earth can't I take photos that aren't blurry, I do not know. Anyway.
Top downward:
1. Lynn Flewelling, Stalking Darkness. Part of the Nightrunner series. Still not sure how I feel about this series... It's kind of just generic crap fantasy, really, but for some reason (possibly because it's generic crap fantasy) I keep reading.
2. Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight. Haven't read it yet. Need to get around to reading Wintersmith first. For some reason I need to be in a particular sort of mood to read Pratchett.
3. Charlotte Bronte, Villette. I'm about halfway through this... not sure how I feel about it. It isn't bad but honestly, I would probably like it more if this edition didn't leave the French dialogue untranslated. I only know enough French to maybe understand 15% of those parts, so I miss a lot. Even endnote translations would be better than nothing.
4. Clive Cussler, Dark Watch. Haven't read it yet, but I like some of his other stuff. I like the occasional dime-store action novel, what can I say.
5. Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played With Fire. You can all laugh at my taste in novels, now. ;p Man, I'm really glad I waited until I had book 3 to read this, otherwise I would've been antsy for over a year with wanting to finish the series.
6. Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House. Pretty scary in certain parts, but overall, not so much. And I kind of wanted to give the main character a stern talking-to at times, since she's such a wingnut, but I expect that was intentional on the author's part.
7. Marilyn Chase, The Barbary Plague. An interesting book on the Black Plague epidemic in San Francisco in the late 19th / early 20th century. Can't decide whether to pass this one on to the library or keep it for reference.
8. Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest. As I've mentioned before... I kind of wish there were more Millennium novels, but on the other hand, the ending of this one could hardly be better.
9. Sigrid Undset, Kristin Lavransdatter. I only have a vague idea of what it's about, but I can hardly wait to read this one. *_*
10. Knud Jespersen, A History of Denmark. Partway through this... pretty basic, I suppose, but a lot of stuff that I didn't really understand suddenly makes sense now, and some parts of history I only had a vague idea about are more rounded in my mind now, so that's great.
11. Crichton & Wheaton, Scandinavia, Ancient and Modern. This is actually a reproduction of a book from the 1920s. I have it not necessarily for the factual information (because much of it will obviously be outdated or even outright incorrect) but more because I tend to be interested in what people thought of such-and-such places at such-and-such point in time.
12. Merry Wiesner-Hanks, Early Modern Europe, 1450-1789. This is a period of history I know fuck-all about, so it should be pretty interesting. This is a textbook, so obviously it'll be pretty broad... but hey, after reading it, I expect I'll come out knowing more than I did going in, so that's something!
13. Scott Chantler, Two Generals. Sort-of a biography of the author/artist's grandfather. Honestly, I originally got the book because it's beautiful, but I expect I'll enjoy it - I always like reading things about Canada in WWII.
14. Robert Ferguson, The Hammer and the Cross. This was the first book I'd read about the viking age. In some places it kind of felt like the author was, for a better word, reaching a bit. On the other hand, it was at least interesting! Should probably get around to reading the other books I have on the viking age now... at least they're much shorter.
15. Kirby & Hinkkanen, The Baltic and the North Seas. Basically, the history of this area as it specifically relates to the sea. Looks interesting, though I suspect this will be a difficult read.
16. Jeff Lemire, Essex County. Basically a long-ass graphic novel about life in small-town Ontario, or at least that's what it looks like. Haven't read it yet, but I look forward to.
And of course I have a zillion more books packed away that I haven't even looked at yet. Some day I will get through all of them. Some. Day..
For now I will just curl up with a pile of tissues and try to get through more of Villette.
Yuu. Fic writer & book lover. M/Canada.
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