Things:
- 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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