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Bach is my favorite. It's amazing how after I started paying attention when his name came up, most of my favorite classical work ended up in his camp. Boroque and Bach, you have my heart completely....

Update on BookShoubu!2

or rather, philosophy on my predicament:

It is not really a matter of being disciplined and getting down to reading.
It is a fine wire-walk of keeping up with my intended reading beyond the library books that come with their own imperative--late fees.
There is a seduction to the newest on the pile. Unless they aren't really that interesting.
You find me reading Nevernever by Will Shetterly. It is fun, it is distracting me from writing Mortal Queen, though inspiring me to take up my inspired-by-Bordertown short and polish it a bit.
It is also not getting me any further with Midnight Never Come. But feeling guilty, I at least put it on my bed.

For Reviews and Additions you can glance at the following, mostly pretty pictures of book:

( My Sorrow Revealed... )

Before finishing this post, I finished NeverNever.

I recommend Otto and the Flying Twins, which I also finished this week: it's standalone of a prospective series, and has a fun magical world that doesn't feel done. It's pretty good stuff.

This morning I noted the llama was looking into my window, past an onion blossom.

Sometimes I do notice how weird my daily life can be--it has a certain poetic absurdity. There is nothing like being a homestead-bound agritourism employed novelist, nothing in the world....

BookShoubu!2

I cannot trust to pictures to illustrate my victories fully. I got a lot of books from the library since then.     >,<
However, I read a fair bit of Midnight Never Come while being restless yesterday, have been looking forward to the Tempest, and have about conquered the pile of newcomer acquisitions. Yostuba&! 5: hilarious, though I'm not sure why these comics are funny--they just are.
My major accomplishment was the devouring of this however:



This, friend, is a really good book. It also marks my first fantasy interacting with Norse mythology--and by interacting we mean "Loki POV" *squee*.
I will now have a compelling reason to learn something about Norse mythology when I get around to it.
A funny but still unsavory Trickster, a truly action-packed but clearly plotted narrative, and a definite feel to the world of it's very own.
Though I linked it a lot with "The Shadow Thieves"--there was some similarity in ambience and treatment of the mythology.

One cool writer trick is that the gods all speak absolutely contemporary, while the normal people are peasants of an ambiguous midieval age. It gave them a certain edge and an immediacy. I though it was neat, anyway.

World Domination, line by line: 22000 words.

HOWL COSTUME:
(I just bought a new edition of Howl's Moving Castle BtW, because they've finally got new art on it, and...iss loff.)

My intemperance in regards to books
surprises even me betimes.
I am declaring war (again) on my unread book pile. Here's an uncomprehensive pictorial indexing:


First is the "I own these and have not made time to read them" pile. Next is "I just went to the other library and was left there too long" pile. The first is merely all the books I've pretended to start, not the all the books I have yet to read--a few Shakespeare, classic novels, and literary non-fiction are still on a less prominent shelf.
(Note to Elf: obviously moving this pile is not a clever plan, or at least not clever enough to fool yours truly, love; Red)
Having been wiser last week, I only have three unread books from the usual library: Tantalize, Beastly, and Deconstructing Dylan. Deconstructing Dylan I have made significant headway into.
I read Yotsuba&!
*sigh*

I hereby declare it time for a new sakusen@!?seiko
book shoubu!2--Love at the Crossroads...

reports all too soon, dear reader.
Step One: Procrastination
putting in books as "want to read" on Facebook's Visual Bookshelf (check!)