Lately... (blah, blah, blah)

[featherynscale]

...I've been far too tired to post much. This thing in which I get up before 7 a.m. is not agreeing with me much. Which is to be expected, I suppose.

...I've been reading a lovely little gargantuan novel called Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell, which is about British magicians, and is much funnier than I expected. The first several chapters concern the question "If there are so many magicians in England, why is nobody actually doing any magic?" This makes me giggle. I'm particularly fond of the sort of polite skewering of people and things that you get with a lot of older British humor, and this is a lovely revival of the practice. I'm only about 1/5 of the way into it, but if it should continue to be as good as the first bits were, I'll heartily recommend it to everyone, especially fionnabhar.

...There are Thelemites (that I don't know, even) using my Uncle Al icon. This also makes me giggle.

Comments

older British humor

[rfunk.livejournal.com]

Hmm, so is this book somewhat along the lines of P.G. Wodehouse?
I might have to check it out.


My sympathies on the early wakeup.... it took me a month to recover from getting my current job and regularly getting up before 7 for the first time since, um, high school I think, and I didn't really get back to semi-normality until I got permission to show up at 8:30 instead of 8. Amazing what a difference that half-hour makes.

Re: older British humor

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I think you might like it. Hell, Neil Gaiman liked it, which is a pretty heavy recommendation in my world.

And I would definitely feel better if I could wander in at 8:30. This 8:00 stuff is for morning people.

Re: older British humor

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Some of my kids are really into Neil Gaiman's new book Coraline, about a girl who moves to new house with her preoccupied parents. While exploring, she stumbles through a door into a mirror world populated by everything she's ever dreamed. I need to get around to reading it.

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

I'll have to check it out. Thanks for the suggestion. I love polite skewering!

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Well, I mean, everybody likes a little polite skewering every now and again, right?

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

Any reasonable sort would. Some of the parents of my students aren't very good sports.

My sympathies

[matchgirl42.livejournal.com]

get some sleep, honey. It'll make you less likely to want to messily hurt something.

*smiles sweetly*

Re: My sympathies

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I don't need to messily hurt things. There is Diablo II for that. :)

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

I also saw your icon out there in the wild the other day...it nearly made *me* giggle.

[hekatatia.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed the novel and the polite skewering, too...definitely put me in mind of a few persons and situations I'd experienced.

I've been considering a reread already. I especially love the second half of the book and want to experience it again. One passage in particular thrilled me more than anything I've read for years. Maybe ever. =)

[malvito.livejournal.com]

Did you get my yesterday evening attempt to email you my rezzie via Word format?

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Nay. I don't know what is occurring here -- try sending it to featherynscale@gmail.com?

(They haven't had any new candidates since the other day, so still a worthwhile pursuit)

[malvito.livejournal.com]

Good ... and thank you. I'll try the other email address ... by the way, where do you work?