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piranhasick. i know who gave it to me -- the woman in the store who was coughing and sneezing left and right without so much as a hand in front of her mouth. i gave her a wide berth, but she insisted on walking up to me and yakking. i was this close to handing her a handkerchief -- except i didn't have one. wear a face mask, you damn disease vector, you!
so, sore throat, fever, sinus headache, runny nose. joy. the only good thing is that i bought a lot of books that i can now plow through. finished both jumper and his majesty's dragon within the last day.
nano reviews:
jumper (by steven gould) -- wonderful escape/revenge coming of age fantasy. not a single stupid teenager in sight either. i like it when a book doesn't make me roll my eyes at the idiocy of the people involved. davy discovers he can teleport when his abusive father hits him once too often. it helps that davy is precocious because that way the plentiful angst didn't overwhelm this reader. it also helps that i was abused and somewhat precocious, and sought escape in books, like davy -- instant identification. and yes, i fantasized that i could teleport. it's such an old trope, but i thought it was well used here, bringing up a lot of the ethical questions that come with such power.
his majesty's dragon (by naomi novik) -- dragons! excellent dragons, as a matter of fact. i want a dragon just like temeraire, *sigh*. i have a big, soft spot for dragons. unfortunately i do not have a soft spot for the napoleonic wars or military SFF in general, and therefore the last part of the book was distasteful for me to plow through; i skipped the gruesome details of battle (not particularly gruesome really, just that i don't want to read about creatures i like getting sliced open; i have a squick about humans using animals for war). but the earlier parts were fun, and she's got the "master and commander" style lingo down pat. russ, are the next two volumes full of military battle stuff? if so, i'll pass, if not i might give them a try. not sure.
this is one of those books that has great seeds but didn't develop as i wanted it -- i would have liked a lot more "precocious dragon grows up intellectually" instead of "precocious dragon grows up physically and practices aerial maneuvres". i can definitely see why some fanficcers say "to hell with canon"; i've immediately wanted to take the world and the dragons and do my own thing with them, which doesn't happen often.
and now back to bed and catherine asaro.
so, sore throat, fever, sinus headache, runny nose. joy. the only good thing is that i bought a lot of books that i can now plow through. finished both jumper and his majesty's dragon within the last day.
nano reviews:
jumper (by steven gould) -- wonderful escape/revenge coming of age fantasy. not a single stupid teenager in sight either. i like it when a book doesn't make me roll my eyes at the idiocy of the people involved. davy discovers he can teleport when his abusive father hits him once too often. it helps that davy is precocious because that way the plentiful angst didn't overwhelm this reader. it also helps that i was abused and somewhat precocious, and sought escape in books, like davy -- instant identification. and yes, i fantasized that i could teleport. it's such an old trope, but i thought it was well used here, bringing up a lot of the ethical questions that come with such power.
his majesty's dragon (by naomi novik) -- dragons! excellent dragons, as a matter of fact. i want a dragon just like temeraire, *sigh*. i have a big, soft spot for dragons. unfortunately i do not have a soft spot for the napoleonic wars or military SFF in general, and therefore the last part of the book was distasteful for me to plow through; i skipped the gruesome details of battle (not particularly gruesome really, just that i don't want to read about creatures i like getting sliced open; i have a squick about humans using animals for war). but the earlier parts were fun, and she's got the "master and commander" style lingo down pat. russ, are the next two volumes full of military battle stuff? if so, i'll pass, if not i might give them a try. not sure.
this is one of those books that has great seeds but didn't develop as i wanted it -- i would have liked a lot more "precocious dragon grows up intellectually" instead of "precocious dragon grows up physically and practices aerial maneuvres". i can definitely see why some fanficcers say "to hell with canon"; i've immediately wanted to take the world and the dragons and do my own thing with them, which doesn't happen often.
and now back to bed and catherine asaro.
Re: Disease vector
on 2006-07-12 21:04 (UTC)