Bad brain. Very idle. No biscuit.

My skills in time-wasting procrastination improve apace: over the past five days I've done none of the college work I'm supposed to be doing. Instead, I've screwed around, read books, slept and last night, when I ought to have slept, failed to sleep*, leading to me missing my lecture of the day.

The books: 15-18/16-19

Scott Westerfeld, Pretties and Specials.

I really, really like these books. The worldbuilding is fun and interesting, the plot is twisty and fast-paced, and Tally Youngblood is a very interesting, compelling character.

There was a minor hiccup in believability about halfway through Specials, but the ending felt note-perfect, and made up for it.

Steven Brust, The Phoenix Guards.

I read Dumas as a child (I was nine or ten, I think), and looking back, most of the action probably went right over my head. Brust's work here is, I think, very much a homage, and I enjoyed it exceedingly. I want more: alas, I will have to wait.



Persons who have read the books of P.C. Hodgell: are they worth reading? Should I read them?

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*There was the Purring Cat, the Coughing Parent, the Paw-in-the-Eye, and finally my very own coughing fit. Getting to sleep at 0430 does not encourage me to arise with wakefulness at any point before noon. Joy.

Bad brain. Very idle. No biscuit.

My skills in time-wasting procrastination improve apace: over the past five days I've done none of the college work I'm supposed to be doing. Instead, I've screwed around, read books, slept and last night, when I ought to have slept, failed to sleep*, leading to me missing my lecture of the day.

The books: 15-18/16-19

Scott Westerfeld, Pretties and Specials.

I really, really like these books. The worldbuilding is fun and interesting, the plot is twisty and fast-paced, and Tally Youngblood is a very interesting, compelling character.

There was a minor hiccup in believability about halfway through Specials, but the ending felt note-perfect, and made up for it.

Steven Brust, The Phoenix Guards.

I read Dumas as a child (I was nine or ten, I think), and looking back, most of the action probably went right over my head. Brust's work here is, I think, very much a homage, and I enjoyed it exceedingly. I want more: alas, I will have to wait.



Persons who have read the books of P.C. Hodgell: are they worth reading? Should I read them?

*

*There was the Purring Cat, the Coughing Parent, the Paw-in-the-Eye, and finally my very own coughing fit. Getting to sleep at 0430 does not encourage me to arise with wakefulness at any point before noon. Joy.