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Jan. 10th, 2023 02:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darchildreThings:
- The spring choir session has started! I usually enjoy the spring session more, because there's more variety in the music we sing (it doesn't all have to be Christmas-related or -adjacent). This session, most of music looks like it's going to be pretty good, which is nice.
- My library is switching to the web-based version of its library software starting in February, so we're all practicing with it now. The switch isn't really going to be that difficult but none of the keyboard shortcuts I know are going to work any more and I resent having to move the mouse more. I resent almost any time I have to use a mouse rather than the keyboard, really.
- I've started doing a thing where, instead of getting up in the morning and dinking around on the internet for an hour before breakfast, I'm getting up in the morning and reading a book instead. I like it, though it does mean selecting some of my reading specifically for qualities like "readable when I am not quite awake yet". More difficult books are for later in the day.
- It's not a morning book, because it's an audiobook, but I'm currently listening to the second volume of Legend of the Condor Heroes by Jin Yong and it's great. You can tell that the novel was originally serialized because there are occasional slightly awkward recaps of the story so far, but the serial nature gives the story one of its greatest strengths which is that there Always Something Interesting Happening. Whether that something is a long kung fu demonstration, a tense political scene in which Genghis Khan's generals are challenged to fight a leopard, or the dramatic reveal of somebody's relative that they've thought was dead for years, it is Interesting and it is Always Happening. I have some slight quibbles with the translation (why are you literally translating people's names?) and the audiobook reader (who consistently mispronounces the word "gallant") but in general I really enjoyed the first volume and the second seems like it's also going to be amazing.
- The spring choir session has started! I usually enjoy the spring session more, because there's more variety in the music we sing (it doesn't all have to be Christmas-related or -adjacent). This session, most of music looks like it's going to be pretty good, which is nice.
- My library is switching to the web-based version of its library software starting in February, so we're all practicing with it now. The switch isn't really going to be that difficult but none of the keyboard shortcuts I know are going to work any more and I resent having to move the mouse more. I resent almost any time I have to use a mouse rather than the keyboard, really.
- I've started doing a thing where, instead of getting up in the morning and dinking around on the internet for an hour before breakfast, I'm getting up in the morning and reading a book instead. I like it, though it does mean selecting some of my reading specifically for qualities like "readable when I am not quite awake yet". More difficult books are for later in the day.
- It's not a morning book, because it's an audiobook, but I'm currently listening to the second volume of Legend of the Condor Heroes by Jin Yong and it's great. You can tell that the novel was originally serialized because there are occasional slightly awkward recaps of the story so far, but the serial nature gives the story one of its greatest strengths which is that there Always Something Interesting Happening. Whether that something is a long kung fu demonstration, a tense political scene in which Genghis Khan's generals are challenged to fight a leopard, or the dramatic reveal of somebody's relative that they've thought was dead for years, it is Interesting and it is Always Happening. I have some slight quibbles with the translation (why are you literally translating people's names?) and the audiobook reader (who consistently mispronounces the word "gallant") but in general I really enjoyed the first volume and the second seems like it's also going to be amazing.
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Date: 2023-01-10 11:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-01-10 11:42 pm (UTC)The audiobook grabbed me where a previous attempt at reading the book had not, but ymmv.