Despite the allure of sleeping all day...
Mar. 11th, 2009 02:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sienamysticI'm going to go back to work tomorrow and see if I can handle a full day. If not, I'll see if I can put in at least a good half-day. Much of my work revolves around the computer, and I'm still not allowed to lift anything heavier than ten pounds until cleared by the doctor for it, so working on the database will be just about all I'm good for.
Reading Mary Gentle's Sundial in a Grave: 1610 and while I'm enjoying it, I don't know if I would have picked up the book knowing that the bulk of it is focused on
a dom/sub relationship and how one member of it goes from completely freaked-out by it to accepting. It's just not quite what I expected from the book, and a similar plot-line threw me in ASH, where it just seemed oddly out of place and did strange things to the characterization of Ash. Not that that's probably exactly what Mary Gentle wanted, but it didn't really work for me. Here, the relationship works a bit better, but it takes up so many pages, and similar scenes have been repeated to the same conclusion, and I'm just...not really as interested as Gentle thinks I should be, I guess. Part of it too is that I hate hate hate overly cocksure, bratty characters and while I'm learning to cope with this one, I don't know if I have much fondness in me yet for the character.
Despite my grumblings, the book is interesting, so I'm continuing on.
Reading Mary Gentle's Sundial in a Grave: 1610 and while I'm enjoying it, I don't know if I would have picked up the book knowing that the bulk of it is focused on
a dom/sub relationship and how one member of it goes from completely freaked-out by it to accepting. It's just not quite what I expected from the book, and a similar plot-line threw me in ASH, where it just seemed oddly out of place and did strange things to the characterization of Ash. Not that that's probably exactly what Mary Gentle wanted, but it didn't really work for me. Here, the relationship works a bit better, but it takes up so many pages, and similar scenes have been repeated to the same conclusion, and I'm just...not really as interested as Gentle thinks I should be, I guess. Part of it too is that I hate hate hate overly cocksure, bratty characters and while I'm learning to cope with this one, I don't know if I have much fondness in me yet for the character.
Despite my grumblings, the book is interesting, so I'm continuing on.
