Writing 23-06-06
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hawkwing_lbProgress notes for 23 June 2006:
"The Queen’s Mirror"
New Words: 526
Total Words: 1431
Darling du jour: N/A
Reason for stopping: draft
"Untitled #3" aka the very strange angel story
New Words: 323
Total Words: 1364
Darling du jour: N/A
Books in progress: Robert Gildea, Marianne in Chains: Daily Life in the Heart of France during the German Occupation; Jo Walton, The King's Peace; Thucydides, A History of the Peloponnesian War.
Exercise: Reps, short run, 40 situps, 22 pressups.
The Blue Place, by Nicola Griffith, is an interesting noir-type book. It has lush language and a harsh and complex protagonist, but to my taste the love story angle drags once Aud (the main character) reaches Norway, and for fifty pages or so it became an exercise in endurance until I reached the end and things sped up again.
Last night, I forgot that one of the books I read on Monday was Jane Lindskold's Wolf Captured. Possibly this is because it is not a particularly memorable book: the fourth installment in the Firekeeper series lacks the freshness of the first two and the interesting character relationships of the third. Still a fun read, but the action drags in parts and the exposition is at times rather heavy-handed.
Tomorrow is the 5am shift. Gah.
"The Queen’s Mirror"
New Words: 526
Total Words: 1431
Darling du jour: N/A
Reason for stopping: draft
"Untitled #3" aka the very strange angel story
New Words: 323
Total Words: 1364
Darling du jour: N/A
Books in progress: Robert Gildea, Marianne in Chains: Daily Life in the Heart of France during the German Occupation; Jo Walton, The King's Peace; Thucydides, A History of the Peloponnesian War.
Exercise: Reps, short run, 40 situps, 22 pressups.
The Blue Place, by Nicola Griffith, is an interesting noir-type book. It has lush language and a harsh and complex protagonist, but to my taste the love story angle drags once Aud (the main character) reaches Norway, and for fifty pages or so it became an exercise in endurance until I reached the end and things sped up again.
Last night, I forgot that one of the books I read on Monday was Jane Lindskold's Wolf Captured. Possibly this is because it is not a particularly memorable book: the fourth installment in the Firekeeper series lacks the freshness of the first two and the interesting character relationships of the third. Still a fun read, but the action drags in parts and the exposition is at times rather heavy-handed.
Tomorrow is the 5am shift. Gah.
