Just tell them stories
I've managed to pack quite a bit into what started out quite a sleepy Sunday: a sunny walk along the river, among the houseboats, swans, geese and crows, crepes for breakfast, a bit of yoga. I've just returned after a desperate rush into the garden to rescue the laundry from — of all things — a hailstorm.
I've also just finished a book: The Mask of Mirrors by M.A. Carrick (a pseudonym for the collaborative efforts of Marie Brennan and Alyc Helms), which felt somewhat old-fashioned in a rather refreshing way — more like the kind of twisty, page-turning secondary world fantasy I used to read twenty years ago. The setting evoked Renaissance Venice (with a dash of the Balkan coastal cities as well), the characters are all, in various ways, con artists attempting disparate kinds of heists, there are various political plots afoot, and everything is artifice in one manner or another.
The eleventh prompt for the book meme asks for:
11. A book that came to you at exactly the right time
( My answer )
( The other days )
I've also just finished a book: The Mask of Mirrors by M.A. Carrick (a pseudonym for the collaborative efforts of Marie Brennan and Alyc Helms), which felt somewhat old-fashioned in a rather refreshing way — more like the kind of twisty, page-turning secondary world fantasy I used to read twenty years ago. The setting evoked Renaissance Venice (with a dash of the Balkan coastal cities as well), the characters are all, in various ways, con artists attempting disparate kinds of heists, there are various political plots afoot, and everything is artifice in one manner or another.
The eleventh prompt for the book meme asks for:
11. A book that came to you at exactly the right time
( My answer )
( The other days )