Finally finished Part 1 of
Don Quixote.
Yay? But I am determined to finish this thing by the next book salon meeting.
Far more entertaining was
Tomorrow When the War Began,
which consuela recommended to me. Totally
Red Dawn
meets
The Outsiders,
but I loved it.
Kat will be happy to hear that I also got
The Last Rendez-vous
and
A Place of Greater Safety
off of hold at the library. So I guess that once I leave Spain and Tudor England, I will be back on familiar ground in France of the long nineteenth century.
Although I was a bit dismayed that
A Place of Greater Safety
is even longer than
Wolf Hall.
Although I was a bit dismayed that A Place of Greater Safety is even longer than Wolf Hall.
HA! I've just started it. I'm about 200 pages in. I can at least keep the people separate, unlike Wolf Hall, because they have separate names. My students studied the French Revolution for acadeca this year, but I'm not really as conversant with the history as I am Tudor England. I keep feeling like people pop up that I recognize (Necker! Saint-Just!) but then the details get lost.
Wow. I just googled "Holy Shit Quotient" and got 12,600 hits.
That one's out in the world now, propagating itself.
That's excellent.
It's cool. Not in a puffed up, "ahh, the wonder of me" Peter Pan way. But just seeing the process by which information is disseminated. It's like a little marked bit of language that I'm conscious of because I coined it. It got disseminated through TV Tropes and TWOP and got out into the world.
You should totally let erinaceous know. It would be cool, from an etymological point of view, to actually have a verbal ground zero to trace it from, like over a ten year or 20 year period.
Yes, you totally should. (Wouldn't erinaceous know anyway?)
Got the book, Dawn! Thanks!!
Has anyone here read Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel? I just finished reading it and thought it was well written and interesting, but I noticed there were strong opinions in both directions on amazon.com.
My coworkers and I read it a few months ago and blogged/podcasted a bit about it here, though none of us had a very positive opinion about it. I think it certainly succeeded in arousing an emotional reaction, but I really didn't like how it was done.
Got the book, Dawn! Thanks!!
Wow that was fast, I mailed it on Friday - Go USPS! Enjoy!
