small virtue
May. 15th, 2008 08:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hawkwing_lbCrawled out of bed at half seven this morning, after a very broken night's sleep. (The alarm went off at half five, but discretion appeared the better part of valour, considering I only fell asleep at three.)
Virtue and study took place, followed by 45 minutes worth of bouldering. I am not mighty this week: I am crampy and discommoded and weak instead, and fed up with being stood up by people who say, "Hey, sure, I'll climb with you," and dodge out at the last minute. Internets! If you know of sane, belay-competent climbers in Dublin who use the new Trinity wall, send them my direction! I am a sane, belay-competent climber in need of more friends!
Well, I think I'm sane, anyway. Who can say?
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Books 2008: 67-68.
67. E.E. Knight, Valentine's Exile
I really kinda like the almost Western feel of postapocalyptic "Vampire Earth" series. Not the world's most intellectual entertainment, but pretty good with the cool stuff nonetheless.
68. Ariana Franklin, Mistress of the Art of Death
1171. Adelia Aguilar, a woman doctor from Salerno, accompanied by an Arab and a Jew, is dispatched to England by the King of Naples in order to assist in proving that a Jewish community is not responsible for the murder of four children in Cambridge.
The prose is sparse and taut, the period detail well-researched, the characters fully-fleshed and beyond merely interesting. A historical mystery, it compares well in atmosphere to Connie Willis' Doomsday Book; tense and freighted.
I like it a very great deal.
Virtue and study took place, followed by 45 minutes worth of bouldering. I am not mighty this week: I am crampy and discommoded and weak instead, and fed up with being stood up by people who say, "Hey, sure, I'll climb with you," and dodge out at the last minute. Internets! If you know of sane, belay-competent climbers in Dublin who use the new Trinity wall, send them my direction! I am a sane, belay-competent climber in need of more friends!
Well, I think I'm sane, anyway. Who can say?
#
Books 2008: 67-68.
67. E.E. Knight, Valentine's Exile
I really kinda like the almost Western feel of postapocalyptic "Vampire Earth" series. Not the world's most intellectual entertainment, but pretty good with the cool stuff nonetheless.
68. Ariana Franklin, Mistress of the Art of Death
1171. Adelia Aguilar, a woman doctor from Salerno, accompanied by an Arab and a Jew, is dispatched to England by the King of Naples in order to assist in proving that a Jewish community is not responsible for the murder of four children in Cambridge.
The prose is sparse and taut, the period detail well-researched, the characters fully-fleshed and beyond merely interesting. A historical mystery, it compares well in atmosphere to Connie Willis' Doomsday Book; tense and freighted.
I like it a very great deal.
