Two days at once

06-06-06

More sun today. I'm going brown in patches, but if this keeps up I'll be getting sick. The rockpools down on the shore are teeming with life: crabs and tiny flat fish and strange long-bodied antenaed things less than the length of my finger joint. Death and life and life and death, all within millimetres of each other.

Got the first line of a short story, too. On the Ile de Rien, in the Oceans of Night, the powers that were upheld the status quo with fire and steel and casual disregard for anyone who happened to be in their way.

I have chunks of ice melting in a bowl on my desk, in the hopes that that'll help keep the room a bit cooler than it was yesterday evening. Country like Ireland, you don't get a/c in private houses, and we don't have so much as a fan.

Weather like we have this week, feels like that might have been a bit of an oversight.

07/06/06

It's clouded over today, but it looks more like heavy heat mist than cloud from here. I'm off to town. The Lies of Locke Lamora is in at Waterstone's. Hopefully it won't heat up too insanely before I get back.

If the sun comes out again, I can sip cool drinks and sit in the shade reading my new book. Whee!

Two days at once

06-06-06

More sun today. I'm going brown in patches, but if this keeps up I'll be getting sick. The rockpools down on the shore are teeming with life: crabs and tiny flat fish and strange long-bodied antenaed things less than the length of my finger joint. Death and life and life and death, all within millimetres of each other.

Got the first line of a short story, too. On the Ile de Rien, in the Oceans of Night, the powers that were upheld the status quo with fire and steel and casual disregard for anyone who happened to be in their way.

I have chunks of ice melting in a bowl on my desk, in the hopes that that'll help keep the room a bit cooler than it was yesterday evening. Country like Ireland, you don't get a/c in private houses, and we don't have so much as a fan.

Weather like we have this week, feels like that might have been a bit of an oversight.

07/06/06

It's clouded over today, but it looks more like heavy heat mist than cloud from here. I'm off to town. The Lies of Locke Lamora is in at Waterstone's. Hopefully it won't heat up too insanely before I get back.

If the sun comes out again, I can sip cool drinks and sit in the shade reading my new book. Whee!

Book!Book! (The Lies of Locke Lamora)

The Lies of Locke Lamora is really, truly, and astonishingly good. A little bit jumpy at the start, perhaps, but once it gets going? Worldbuilding, character and plot on crack. If you don't read it -- well, you won't regret it, because you won't know what you're missing -- but you really, really ought to. Because it is good. Pushing brilliant.

Now, who do I have to bribe, threaten or thieve from to get an early copy of the next one?

Book!Book! (The Lies of Locke Lamora)

The Lies of Locke Lamora is really, truly, and astonishingly good. A little bit jumpy at the start, perhaps, but once it gets going? Worldbuilding, character and plot on crack. If you don't read it -- well, you won't regret it, because you won't know what you're missing -- but you really, really ought to. Because it is good. Pushing brilliant.

Now, who do I have to bribe, threaten or thieve from to get an early copy of the next one?