![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
Jul. 18th, 2012 05:41 pm1. People continue to bewilder me. Here's an old story that a friend repeated to me recently:
( Read more... )
Sigh. Teacher's really aren't paid enough are they?
2. Struggling with new romance novel, Private Arrangements - it is well written, better than most of the others I've read to date. It reminds me a great deal of an EM Forsterer novel or Emma by Jane Austen, has that sort of feel to it. But the hero is a self-righteous ass that I keep wanting to smack upside the head. This is a problem. I figured out why he bugs me, he doesn't take responsibility for anything. He blames it all on other people. Characters like that drive me crazy. I'm only 35% of the way in, there is a possibility the writer will redeem him. The problem with e-books, is you can't skip ahead to find out. Well you can, but not easily.
It's interesting what makes it difficult to sympathize or feel for a character. It's different for everyone, I suspect - mainly from reading the discussion threads and reviews on Good Reads. Talk about diametrically opposed views - want proof that people see the same things in books - read those reviews.
( Read more... )
3. Thunderstorm that decided to wait until I walked home, almost killed me. I was standing across the street from a lightening strike. Okay, it was technically two streets away.
And then, when I got off the tube at 2nd Place, it decided to become a tropical storm, complete with lighting, thunder, and 50 mile per hour winds. Lovely. I took refuge for a bit in a bodega (needed to get watermelon and apples anyhow). Got bored and when the wind settled down a bit, braved the wilds - only to get soaked to the skin (and yes, I was carrying an umbrella).
( Read more... )
( Read more... )
Sigh. Teacher's really aren't paid enough are they?
2. Struggling with new romance novel, Private Arrangements - it is well written, better than most of the others I've read to date. It reminds me a great deal of an EM Forsterer novel or Emma by Jane Austen, has that sort of feel to it. But the hero is a self-righteous ass that I keep wanting to smack upside the head. This is a problem. I figured out why he bugs me, he doesn't take responsibility for anything. He blames it all on other people. Characters like that drive me crazy. I'm only 35% of the way in, there is a possibility the writer will redeem him. The problem with e-books, is you can't skip ahead to find out. Well you can, but not easily.
It's interesting what makes it difficult to sympathize or feel for a character. It's different for everyone, I suspect - mainly from reading the discussion threads and reviews on Good Reads. Talk about diametrically opposed views - want proof that people see the same things in books - read those reviews.
( Read more... )
3. Thunderstorm that decided to wait until I walked home, almost killed me. I was standing across the street from a lightening strike. Okay, it was technically two streets away.
And then, when I got off the tube at 2nd Place, it decided to become a tropical storm, complete with lighting, thunder, and 50 mile per hour winds. Lovely. I took refuge for a bit in a bodega (needed to get watermelon and apples anyhow). Got bored and when the wind settled down a bit, braved the wilds - only to get soaked to the skin (and yes, I was carrying an umbrella).
( Read more... )