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Sep. 14th, 2007 11:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xifengThe weather's gotten cooler, which means the pollen count is up, which means allergies, which means I've been hopped up on DayQuil for the past three days and really haven't been doing much in the way of breathing, so I'm only now getting around to comments and e-mails. I'll probably crash soon in any case. (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
forgottensanity, I'll do something about the FTP issue this weekend, I promise--I just wanted to let you know I did get your e-mail. ♥)
Not a whole lot is going on. Joy thinks I've lost weight (it could be that I was wearing a black shirt today, or it could be due to my patented eating-crap-and-never-exercising weight-loss plan).
Also, I finished reading the Stone of Light series by Christian Jacq; Jacq's historical novels are kind of like Lucky Charms for me, in that I don't give a shit about them when I'm not consuming them, but once I'm onto them, I can devour the whole damn series/box in one go. I was a bit disappointed in the series; I realize it's fiction, but it's based on a real place and several of the characters are real people, and so much more (and better) mileage could have been gotten out of them. The fictionalized Paneb the Ardent doesn't hold a candle to the real one, with all his flaws and all his talent. (Read Ancient Lives by John Romer; you'll see what I mean.)
Also, the identity of the traitor worked, in that I couldn't guess who it was and was totally shocked when he was finally unmasked, and was equally disappointing in that villains and evil in Jacq's books are never multi-dimensional. People do bad things for a lot of reasons--sometimes it is for money or personal gain or revenge, and sometimes people do wrong because they believe that it is the right, or at least the best, thing to do under the circumstances. It's not all a matter of cackling, "Bwahahahahaha! Bwahahahahahaha!" while lighting flashes in the background.
My new project is re-reading all the Balzac I've got, supplemented with stuff from the IU library that in some cases has been newly translated; in a lot of cases, I haven't read this since high school. This will be interesting.
I hope Cousin Bette, at least, has aged well. I also hope Beatrix has aged well, even if I felt cheated when Camille Maupin enters a conventI was totally not reading her as a lesbian so put that thought out of your head.
forgottensanity, I'll do something about the FTP issue this weekend, I promise--I just wanted to let you know I did get your e-mail. ♥)Not a whole lot is going on. Joy thinks I've lost weight (it could be that I was wearing a black shirt today, or it could be due to my patented eating-crap-and-never-exercising weight-loss plan).
Also, I finished reading the Stone of Light series by Christian Jacq; Jacq's historical novels are kind of like Lucky Charms for me, in that I don't give a shit about them when I'm not consuming them, but once I'm onto them, I can devour the whole damn series/box in one go. I was a bit disappointed in the series; I realize it's fiction, but it's based on a real place and several of the characters are real people, and so much more (and better) mileage could have been gotten out of them. The fictionalized Paneb the Ardent doesn't hold a candle to the real one, with all his flaws and all his talent. (Read Ancient Lives by John Romer; you'll see what I mean.)
Also, the identity of the traitor worked, in that I couldn't guess who it was and was totally shocked when he was finally unmasked, and was equally disappointing in that villains and evil in Jacq's books are never multi-dimensional. People do bad things for a lot of reasons--sometimes it is for money or personal gain or revenge, and sometimes people do wrong because they believe that it is the right, or at least the best, thing to do under the circumstances. It's not all a matter of cackling, "Bwahahahahaha! Bwahahahahahaha!" while lighting flashes in the background.
My new project is re-reading all the Balzac I've got, supplemented with stuff from the IU library that in some cases has been newly translated; in a lot of cases, I haven't read this since high school. This will be interesting.
I hope Cousin Bette, at least, has aged well. I also hope Beatrix has aged well, even if I felt cheated when Camille Maupin enters a convent
