"All We Know is What We're Told, and Most of That's Been Lies..."

[psalm_onethirtyone]

Well, HACC--it's going to be a little difficult, I have to go in to-morrow morning for a standardised test or they won't let me take classes there, it's a trouble. But I hope I do all right. It's a two-hour test, and I think it's the hardest part, really, of acceptance. And then I'll be doing human bio at Polyclinic.

I finished The Winter Prince--I think I've been reading too many books lately with too much poignancy, with I cry partly with relief by the end, because the emotions are too strong and when they finally let you go you're that much lighter, and amazed--it was wonderful. And it was frightening, and saddening, and very beautiful, and crafted--it's like reading a piece of ironwork, or an inlaid tabletop, or a mosaic. Or a hope chest. Very built with hands, you know. Very made and very complex and very difficult. And of course it's not the only book, but I'm half-scared to read the rest, even though I want to know more, and I want to feel more--a little afraid to feel more, too. It's just one of those books--Cherryh's the same way. I wish I hadn't been reading it at the gym, because I couldn't cry the way I wanted to.

And it was also one, like Cherryh's, where I kept talking to the characters aloud, which is a bad thing also to do at the gym. "NO, LLEU!" I would say, and everybody would turn and go O_o?. "AHHH. NO. MEDRAUT, DON'T DO THAT...!" I was interrupting their Fox News. >_> I should read books like this at home, except that the only way I can read them is to do it at the gym, because otherwise the feeling part gets overwhelming and I have to keep stopping, constantly--when I do it at the gym my body is so tired that I don't hurt as much as otherwise I would.

This is why I'm a slow reader. (It was a wonderful book. Thank you, Manon.)

The light has been frankly gorgeous to-day. I don't think there's anything else of note to say.

Comments

[mhari.livejournal.com]

^__________^

I love that book so much. SO much.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

I can see why. XD

[mhari.livejournal.com]

*beams*

I don't like Coalition of Lions as well, though this is probably just because it's not what i thought a book about Goewin would be.

But then we have TELEMAKOS! Who is a terrible child and I adore the pants off him. If he wore pants. Which he may not.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

*giggles*

Does this mean I have to read the rest of the books? What are all the titles?

[mhari.livejournal.com]

A Coalition of Lions; The Sunbird; The Lion Hunter. You will probably have to hit the used bookstores for the first two, since they're out of print. >__< And libraries really suck at stocking Wein.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

I'll try my ILL first. It's usually pretty reliable and amazingly full of the unexpected--I just got Mabon and the Mysteries of Britain from it.

[mhari.livejournal.com]

Oooh! Geekery! ^_^

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

It's awesome! XD And totally incomprehensible! Did you know that Mabon is an allegory for Lancelot and Jesus? Honestly, I think you should have to pick one.

(also, he is Morvydd's half-brother, heh.)

[mhari.livejournal.com]

...holy conflation, Batman.

(Yes, well, shh.)

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

I KNOW, RIGHT?

(Modron: La la la I am waiting by this ford.
Uriens: Hey, you're SMOKIN'.
Modron: So I am. Sex?
Uriens: YEAH!
Modron: Hee hee.

LATER

Modron: Thanks!
Uriens: ...?
Modron: This son I'm now going to have is going to be the saviour of his people. Excuse me while I go about my business now.
Uriens: ...Morgan's going to kill me.)

[mhari.livejournal.com]

:D :D

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

So--yes. Half-brother, half-sister. :D He is amused by this knowledge.

[mhari.livejournal.com]

Snork.

AIM?

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

But promises not to harass her.

Yes!

[ewein2412]

rainbowjehan, you're in HARRISBURG? As in, Harrisburg PA? I grew up in Harrisburg. I went to Harrisburg Academy, I taught a writing course at HACC. Of all the library systems in all the world, Dauphin County is the MOST LIKELY to be able to provide you with my books.

xx

glad you liked The Winter Prince.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

!! Yes, yes, I am! Oh, my word! And yes, I'm totally in Dauphin County, although my library itself is in Newport. Well, that's great. ^___^ That's absolutely terrific.

It was amazing. You are amazing.

[mhari.livejournal.com]

Heh, I didn't even think of that! *blush*