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May. 7th, 2007 02:09 amHola! Things around here have been quiet lately. I went on a job interview, but haven't heard anything back yet. BLARGH. (They told me I would know within ten days; whatever, hurry up and call me already!) Not trusting my own luck, I wore BPAL's Perpetuum Bonum so I had a little voodoo working for me.
So far, my reading has been as slow as ever. I started, but gave up on Colleen McCullough's Caesar's Women. Too much about politics, not enough story about you know, Caesar's women. I'm still interested in reading a novel set in Antiquity, so if anyone has suggestions, I would love to hear them.
Anyway, so after that, I read The Prestige by Christopher Priest, which![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mythicalgryphon had lent me. Thanks by the way, it was a really good read. ^_^ Although TOTALLY different from the movie. Except that they are bastardy magicians and they hate each other. The big reveals are still the same though (you know what I mean, if you've seen the movie). I was surprised to see that there was a subplot set in the present, which the filmmakers did away with entirely. I think the film works better without the framing device, but the book is much creepier because of it. The only thing I didn't like was how abruptly the subplot ended; I actually flipped through the endpapers to make sure there wasn't anything else.
The other book that I read this month was The Queen's Secret by Jean Plaidy. I'm always excited when a new Plaidy book gets reissued. This one was about Katherine of Valois, wife of Henry V and mother of the Tudor dynasty. I enjoyed the book, but Plaidy does get kind of repetitive in it. And the other problem (which it has in common with Plaidy's book about Eleanor of Aquitaine) is that by telling the story with the Queen's first person narrative, a lot of story gets told to you secondhand because said Queen is locked up in a castle somewhere or otherwise missing the action. Like, Joan of Arc's rise to action and subsquent trial and execution are important to the story and timeframe, but you only hear about it as gossip told to Katherine. Which is kind of awkward and distancing. But otherwise it's not a bad read. And it's impossible to not imagine Emma Thompson and Kenneth Branagh while reading it.
In other news, the weather here has been rainy, stormy and tornado-y for about a fortnight. If tornado warnings pre-empt Heroes tomorrow night (there's be nothing else on tv for the past two days), I will be mightily pissed.
Here's a picture of our new roses that I took during a break in the showers. I believe they're called Rio Sambas.
So far, my reading has been as slow as ever. I started, but gave up on Colleen McCullough's Caesar's Women. Too much about politics, not enough story about you know, Caesar's women. I'm still interested in reading a novel set in Antiquity, so if anyone has suggestions, I would love to hear them.
Anyway, so after that, I read The Prestige by Christopher Priest, which
mythicalgryphon had lent me. Thanks by the way, it was a really good read. ^_^ Although TOTALLY different from the movie. Except that they are bastardy magicians and they hate each other. The big reveals are still the same though (you know what I mean, if you've seen the movie). I was surprised to see that there was a subplot set in the present, which the filmmakers did away with entirely. I think the film works better without the framing device, but the book is much creepier because of it. The only thing I didn't like was how abruptly the subplot ended; I actually flipped through the endpapers to make sure there wasn't anything else. The other book that I read this month was The Queen's Secret by Jean Plaidy. I'm always excited when a new Plaidy book gets reissued. This one was about Katherine of Valois, wife of Henry V and mother of the Tudor dynasty. I enjoyed the book, but Plaidy does get kind of repetitive in it. And the other problem (which it has in common with Plaidy's book about Eleanor of Aquitaine) is that by telling the story with the Queen's first person narrative, a lot of story gets told to you secondhand because said Queen is locked up in a castle somewhere or otherwise missing the action. Like, Joan of Arc's rise to action and subsquent trial and execution are important to the story and timeframe, but you only hear about it as gossip told to Katherine. Which is kind of awkward and distancing. But otherwise it's not a bad read. And it's impossible to not imagine Emma Thompson and Kenneth Branagh while reading it.
In other news, the weather here has been rainy, stormy and tornado-y for about a fortnight. If tornado warnings pre-empt Heroes tomorrow night (there's be nothing else on tv for the past two days), I will be mightily pissed.
Here's a picture of our new roses that I took during a break in the showers. I believe they're called Rio Sambas.
