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The Buried Pyramid, and other pieces of a weekend.
Got this - the latest Jane Lindskold book - at the library yesterday. I'm glad I did, but it's not as much as I'd hoped for, either, in ways I really can't explain without spoiling it. It's good. Part of it is that the era and place is one I would have enjoyed more a decade ago, but mostly, I think it's that I wasn't quite sure what to make of it. It wasn't what I'd expected, and I wasn't quite sure at times what it was instead. It was good; it wasn't Lindskold at her best, to my eyes, though.
I have no such ambivalencies about whatever frustrated writer wrote the text on the interior of the dust cover, which may have helped set the tone for my discomfort with the book. The first sentence starts: "Plucky young Jenny Benet, a recently orphaned American girl who was raised on the Wild West frontier and educated at a Boston finishing schooll, has...."
Really. Technically, you can describe her that way, but describing her so sets the stage for a tone that the book kind of lives up to and kind of doesn't, and that in any case, is not my sort of thing, quite. I'm not even sure I can say what it is I object to there, it just bothered me. The book was better than that - but it still was far from challenging my favorite Lindskold books, or in fact, any of her other books that I've read at all, for position on how much I like them.
Scott and I rewatched Pirates of the Caribbean this morning. I am pleased to find that it is actually one of the movies I thought I would enjoy rewatching, and did. (I have thought the same thing of several other films, and been quite wrong.) Also watched some of the cut scenes (of which I can only say, "most of these were quite rightly cut! what a waste of time!") and the blooper reel (stitched together a bit jerkily, often without any sign of why a particular segment was a blooper; but, when you actually catch what the blooper was, hysterical).
Pleased again with Eph these days. My RP has been fun, and I'm getting things done on the staff side. If there's always something more to do, well, it's not as bad for me as it was in that regard.
I had gotten two copies of a photo of mine - a 1:3 panoramic shot of Multnomah Falls - printed, and gotten frames and matting. The latter was finished last week, so I went ahead and put them together today. They look great. I'm very pleased with the effect.
And I still have gel pens. I'm very pleased. I hope I'm still pleased when I've started to use them, but I think I will be. I hope. :)
Gel pen photo here. Photo of framed waterfall photo (ironic, no?) here.
I have no such ambivalencies about whatever frustrated writer wrote the text on the interior of the dust cover, which may have helped set the tone for my discomfort with the book. The first sentence starts: "Plucky young Jenny Benet, a recently orphaned American girl who was raised on the Wild West frontier and educated at a Boston finishing schooll, has...."
Really. Technically, you can describe her that way, but describing her so sets the stage for a tone that the book kind of lives up to and kind of doesn't, and that in any case, is not my sort of thing, quite. I'm not even sure I can say what it is I object to there, it just bothered me. The book was better than that - but it still was far from challenging my favorite Lindskold books, or in fact, any of her other books that I've read at all, for position on how much I like them.
Scott and I rewatched Pirates of the Caribbean this morning. I am pleased to find that it is actually one of the movies I thought I would enjoy rewatching, and did. (I have thought the same thing of several other films, and been quite wrong.) Also watched some of the cut scenes (of which I can only say, "most of these were quite rightly cut! what a waste of time!") and the blooper reel (stitched together a bit jerkily, often without any sign of why a particular segment was a blooper; but, when you actually catch what the blooper was, hysterical).
Pleased again with Eph these days. My RP has been fun, and I'm getting things done on the staff side. If there's always something more to do, well, it's not as bad for me as it was in that regard.
I had gotten two copies of a photo of mine - a 1:3 panoramic shot of Multnomah Falls - printed, and gotten frames and matting. The latter was finished last week, so I went ahead and put them together today. They look great. I'm very pleased with the effect.
And I still have gel pens. I'm very pleased. I hope I'm still pleased when I've started to use them, but I think I will be. I hope. :)
Gel pen photo here. Photo of framed waterfall photo (ironic, no?) here.
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