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Nov. 22nd, 2020 05:22 pmIt's been a cozy weekend — a bit of cooking, a few walks out in the clear winter sunshine, and quite a lot of reading and writing. I've finished off the first of my planned Yuletide treats, and am pretty satisfied with the result.
I've embarked on the beginning of a Dark Is Rising sequence reread. So far I've read the first three books, and it's reminding me again of how intensely I love this series. What it's also reminding me, though, is that the seeds of the extremely frustrating ending are very much there from the beginning — and knowing how the series concludes makes all those little hints all the more glaring. I think that Greenwitch remains my favourite — it's just such a weird little book, and any story that's about the unknowable, uncontrollable power of the sea is definitely going to find favour with me.
( Other books read this month )
I'm currently reading Guy Gavriel Kay's A Brightness Long Ago, which, like all his fiction, is set in a fake fantasy version of our own world — in this case, Renaissance Italy, with its mess of city states and warring dynasties. It's a very GGK novel (those familiar with his work will know what I mean), with his usual character types, and I love it a lot so far. There was a moment, early on in the book, where one of the characters quotes a poem by Ammar from The Lions of Al-Rassan, except of course that so much time and history has passed that he has no idea of the name of the poem's author, and I felt a bit weepy. Ammar's name is gone, lost in the dust of time, but his words remain, and people still quote them, and find them meaningful. Oh, my heart.
I've signed up for a seasonal multifandom gifting fest —![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
fandomtrees, which is very much in the style of last year's in_a_peartree (in which I participated), and fandom_stocking (in which I have not). If anyone is interested, I recommend signing up, and, if anyone is so moved to create gifts, my 'tree' is here. I'm requesting a lot of female-centric fandoms ... and icons of plants/trees/summery/wintery/autumnal/spring-like things. In any case, it looks like a fun, low-pressure fest.
I hope everyone's been having lovely weekends!
I've embarked on the beginning of a Dark Is Rising sequence reread. So far I've read the first three books, and it's reminding me again of how intensely I love this series. What it's also reminding me, though, is that the seeds of the extremely frustrating ending are very much there from the beginning — and knowing how the series concludes makes all those little hints all the more glaring. I think that Greenwitch remains my favourite — it's just such a weird little book, and any story that's about the unknowable, uncontrollable power of the sea is definitely going to find favour with me.
( Other books read this month )
I'm currently reading Guy Gavriel Kay's A Brightness Long Ago, which, like all his fiction, is set in a fake fantasy version of our own world — in this case, Renaissance Italy, with its mess of city states and warring dynasties. It's a very GGK novel (those familiar with his work will know what I mean), with his usual character types, and I love it a lot so far. There was a moment, early on in the book, where one of the characters quotes a poem by Ammar from The Lions of Al-Rassan, except of course that so much time and history has passed that he has no idea of the name of the poem's author, and I felt a bit weepy. Ammar's name is gone, lost in the dust of time, but his words remain, and people still quote them, and find them meaningful. Oh, my heart.
I've signed up for a seasonal multifandom gifting fest —
fandomtrees, which is very much in the style of last year's in_a_peartree (in which I participated), and fandom_stocking (in which I have not). If anyone is interested, I recommend signing up, and, if anyone is so moved to create gifts, my 'tree' is here. I'm requesting a lot of female-centric fandoms ... and icons of plants/trees/summery/wintery/autumnal/spring-like things. In any case, it looks like a fun, low-pressure fest.I hope everyone's been having lovely weekends!