Today and Tomorrow
Jan. 19th, 2009 10:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sienamysticToday I finished a reread of Pamela Dean's Juniper, Gentian, and Rosemary and watched the first two eps of Wonderfalls, and also did eight loads of laundry. Yowza.
Juniper, Gentian, and Rosemary is an interesting book for me. I like it very much in some ways (every character in it, just about, is a fully-realized person), but there are parts of it that just don't shake out right and I don't know if it's a flaw in the novel or in how I'm choosing to read it. The book came out almost exactly ten years ago, and I actually went back over to rec.arts.sf.written and read a bunch of old threads discussing the book - there was a lot of good stuff being written about it but I wish I could grab some of these people and get them to restart a new discussion now that they've likely reread the book. If I get around to it, I may go back over there and start one, or if anybody feels like having the discussion here, I'd be happy to kick it off. Although really, I don't think I have anything new and intelligent to say about it - a lot of the stuff that bugged me still does. I just want to listen to *other* people being smart about it!
And as for Wonderfalls, all I can say is that I'm in love. What a dear little show. I've been told it ended abruptly, which is sad. It also makes me growl about the length of time they're waiting to air the last three eps. of Pushing Daisies.
Tomorrow, a longer MRI (actually, it's two of them. No doubt double the price, although they do it all at once) of my lower spine. So it's the tube again for me. Sigh.
Juniper, Gentian, and Rosemary is an interesting book for me. I like it very much in some ways (every character in it, just about, is a fully-realized person), but there are parts of it that just don't shake out right and I don't know if it's a flaw in the novel or in how I'm choosing to read it. The book came out almost exactly ten years ago, and I actually went back over to rec.arts.sf.written and read a bunch of old threads discussing the book - there was a lot of good stuff being written about it but I wish I could grab some of these people and get them to restart a new discussion now that they've likely reread the book. If I get around to it, I may go back over there and start one, or if anybody feels like having the discussion here, I'd be happy to kick it off. Although really, I don't think I have anything new and intelligent to say about it - a lot of the stuff that bugged me still does. I just want to listen to *other* people being smart about it!
And as for Wonderfalls, all I can say is that I'm in love. What a dear little show. I've been told it ended abruptly, which is sad. It also makes me growl about the length of time they're waiting to air the last three eps. of Pushing Daisies.
Tomorrow, a longer MRI (actually, it's two of them. No doubt double the price, although they do it all at once) of my lower spine. So it's the tube again for me. Sigh.
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Date: 2009-01-20 07:00 pm (UTC)