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- Choir tonight. Our concert is in (checks calendar) four weeks and I feel less than ready. I'm sure that things will work out but I'm not used to feeling this ill-prepared this close to performance time. It's stressful.
- I know that I've had TED Klein's Dark Gods sitting in my to-be-read pile for a couple months now, but I was in the mood for horror tonight so I finally picked it up tonight and started it. I only managed to get a few pages into the first story on break at rehearsal tonight but those few pages were enough to remind me that yeah, I really like TED Klein. I feel...hmm. I feel oddly at home in his writing, as though my mind is comfortable there. Not entirely comfortable - it's a horror story, after all - but a little like a place, a room, that you've been in so many times that you can walk around the furniture in the dark. I don't know what's going to happen in this story and I'm glad because horror should be a surprise the first time. But I can sink into Mr Klein's stories like a comfortable chair. It's lovely.
(The little author blurb in the back of the book is kinda hilarious. "He is currently at work on a new novel". Ahahaha. I mean, not that I would not jump up and down in immense glee if there ever was one. But, y'know, I'm not holding my breath.)
- I have also been reading Ursula K Le Guin lately. Every time I do that, I end up thinking "Wow, I really like this. Why have I not read more of her books?" I finished The Dispossessed the other day, which I loved, and now I am reading Always Coming Home, which is really good. And has a huge glossary in the back. I love fiction with glossaries and made-up words. One of the (many) reasons that I keep rereading Dune is so that I have an excuse to say "shai-hulud". Try it - it feels really good in your mouth. It's one of my favorite made-up words; that and Y'ha-nthlei and Elbereth Gilthoniel.
What made-up words do you guys like?
- Choir tonight. Our concert is in (checks calendar) four weeks and I feel less than ready. I'm sure that things will work out but I'm not used to feeling this ill-prepared this close to performance time. It's stressful.
- I know that I've had TED Klein's Dark Gods sitting in my to-be-read pile for a couple months now, but I was in the mood for horror tonight so I finally picked it up tonight and started it. I only managed to get a few pages into the first story on break at rehearsal tonight but those few pages were enough to remind me that yeah, I really like TED Klein. I feel...hmm. I feel oddly at home in his writing, as though my mind is comfortable there. Not entirely comfortable - it's a horror story, after all - but a little like a place, a room, that you've been in so many times that you can walk around the furniture in the dark. I don't know what's going to happen in this story and I'm glad because horror should be a surprise the first time. But I can sink into Mr Klein's stories like a comfortable chair. It's lovely.
(The little author blurb in the back of the book is kinda hilarious. "He is currently at work on a new novel". Ahahaha. I mean, not that I would not jump up and down in immense glee if there ever was one. But, y'know, I'm not holding my breath.)
- I have also been reading Ursula K Le Guin lately. Every time I do that, I end up thinking "Wow, I really like this. Why have I not read more of her books?" I finished The Dispossessed the other day, which I loved, and now I am reading Always Coming Home, which is really good. And has a huge glossary in the back. I love fiction with glossaries and made-up words. One of the (many) reasons that I keep rereading Dune is so that I have an excuse to say "shai-hulud". Try it - it feels really good in your mouth. It's one of my favorite made-up words; that and Y'ha-nthlei and Elbereth Gilthoniel.
What made-up words do you guys like?
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Date: 2010-03-16 08:41 am (UTC)that I can think of at the moment. I learned all the strange Elven songs from Lord of the Rings just because I liked the sound. (I did not learn Sindarin and am perversely proud of that. However, I still understood a lot because I read the Silmarillion often.)Hello *waves*, you seem nice and interesting :)
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Date: 2010-03-16 02:29 pm (UTC)I think Tolkein is one of the first things I read that had made-up words in it. It was sort of a revelation, one of those "Oh man, you can do that?" things.
I have yet to get through the whole of the Silmarilion. It's lovely, but I keep forgetting who everyone is. Next time, I will have to make some sort of chart.
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Date: 2010-03-16 08:09 pm (UTC)No, actually, there were several charts: one for the Elven tribes and then three for the major Elven families, plus three for the major human families. And of course, they intermarried. (So I made other charts trying to document all the marriages and family relations. ... Does that sound less geeky if I say that I never got it done right? Stupid long-living elves, not caring about generation gaps at all.)
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Date: 2010-03-16 08:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-22 06:25 pm (UTC)...also, must recommend heartily The Left Hand of Darkness.
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Date: 2010-03-22 06:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-22 06:45 pm (UTC)