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Jan. 4th, 2008 06:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Curling up in an armchair with a cup of tea, a piece of fruitcake and Ballet Shoes* = good cure for post-Christmas Blues.
*The tv version was enjoyable, and reasonably faithful to the book, Sylvia/Mr Simpson-subplot notwithstanding. The book is better, though.
Christmas and New Years went well. No household crisis, no illnesses and not much quarreling. Tiny Niece is still young enough to shriek with delight anytime she opens a present, regardless of what she gets.
I've been reading A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire) over the holidays, but I don't think I'll continue with the rest of the series. Martin writes well, but I've grown less and less fond of this kind of fake-medieval, low on supernatural elements fantasy. And while the characters are reasonably complex, I didn't really warm up to anyone of them except for Tyrion, and to a lesser extent Dany.
Reading note from last year: I kind of regret that I bought the 2001 Faber Children's Classics edition of Noel Langley's The Land of Green Ginger, since it seems to be an abridged version. It is still a funny, lovely story, but most of the Omar Khayyam references (which were among the reasons I wanted to re-read it in the first place) and possible other stuff are left out.
*The tv version was enjoyable, and reasonably faithful to the book, Sylvia/Mr Simpson-subplot notwithstanding. The book is better, though.
Christmas and New Years went well. No household crisis, no illnesses and not much quarreling. Tiny Niece is still young enough to shriek with delight anytime she opens a present, regardless of what she gets.
I've been reading A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire) over the holidays, but I don't think I'll continue with the rest of the series. Martin writes well, but I've grown less and less fond of this kind of fake-medieval, low on supernatural elements fantasy. And while the characters are reasonably complex, I didn't really warm up to anyone of them except for Tyrion, and to a lesser extent Dany.
Reading note from last year: I kind of regret that I bought the 2001 Faber Children's Classics edition of Noel Langley's The Land of Green Ginger, since it seems to be an abridged version. It is still a funny, lovely story, but most of the Omar Khayyam references (which were among the reasons I wanted to re-read it in the first place) and possible other stuff are left out.
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Date: 2008-01-04 08:24 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-01-04 10:04 pm (UTC)I also appreciate the complexity of his characters (e.g Lady Stark, whom I admired for her strength and liked for her affection toward her family, but disliked for her behavior to John Snow), but I got bogged down in the second book, and ended up reading just the chapters about Stark's younger daughter. The first book had Stark as a powerful core figure, and without him, the second is too chaotic, IMO.
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Date: 2008-01-05 09:34 pm (UTC)Catelyn was a character that I felt had a lot of potentially interesting traits and a good storyline, yet she failed to engage me. I didn't care much for Arya until she left Casterly Rock (?).