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psalm_onethirtyone) wrote2007-08-28 07:19 pm
psalm_onethirtyone) wrote2007-08-28 07:19 pm
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"All We Know is What We're Told, and Most of That's Been Lies..."
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.
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.
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I love that book so much. SO much.
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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.
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Does this mean I have to read the rest of the books? What are all the titles?
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(also, he is Morvydd's half-brother, heh.)
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(Yes, well, shh.)
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(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.)
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AIM?
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Yes!
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xx
glad you liked The Winter Prince.
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It was amazing. You are amazing.
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