Hearing the birds waking up is usually how I know I’ve gone from staying up pretty late to staying up really late. I am listening to them right now. It’s pretty :)
Whatcha reading? I just finished The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin. I already feel like I need to re-read it because it is dense but I’ve just picked up The Language of the Night so I’m gonna finish that one first. I’ve known about Le Guin forever, she’s always on the lists of notable sci-fi authors, but somehow I’ve never read her stuff until now and I think I’m hooked.
I just finished reading of Cordwainer Smith first volume of his Instrumentality of Mankind. I read it in a French translation I was given, not expecting much out of it, I was almost decided to just give to a friend of mine but then decided to give it a chance, just reading a few pages to see what it was all about and if it was any good… I could not put it down. Most of the time, I was very much impressed. It’s smart, it’s bright, deeply humane, and very imaginative too. It was subtle or not so subtle, depending the story. And most of the time it was very well crafted. I felt like a moron to never have read anything by this dude.
I liked the book so much I picked the next 3 volumes of that set… in their French translation, like the first volume I just read, as I was unable to get my hands on any English print edition.
This evening, not sleeping, and alone in our new but yet unfurnished apartment (save a few books, obviously), I started re-reading of The Hobbit, this one in its original English ;)
Does she? Had no idea, but that may not come has a surprise they both shared the same ability to create entire worlds that were so effing convincing :)
Hearing the birds waking up is usually how I know I’ve gone from staying up pretty late to staying up really late. I am listening to them right now. It’s pretty :)
It is, indeed :)
Whatcha reading? I just finished The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin. I already feel like I need to re-read it because it is dense but I’ve just picked up The Language of the Night so I’m gonna finish that one first. I’ve known about Le Guin forever, she’s always on the lists of notable sci-fi authors, but somehow I’ve never read her stuff until now and I think I’m hooked.
I just finished reading of Cordwainer Smith first volume of his Instrumentality of Mankind. I read it in a French translation I was given, not expecting much out of it, I was almost decided to just give to a friend of mine but then decided to give it a chance, just reading a few pages to see what it was all about and if it was any good… I could not put it down. Most of the time, I was very much impressed. It’s smart, it’s bright, deeply humane, and very imaginative too. It was subtle or not so subtle, depending the story. And most of the time it was very well crafted. I felt like a moron to never have read anything by this dude.
I liked the book so much I picked the next 3 volumes of that set… in their French translation, like the first volume I just read, as I was unable to get my hands on any English print edition.
This evening, not sleeping, and alone in our new but yet unfurnished apartment (save a few books, obviously), I started re-reading of The Hobbit, this one in its original English ;)
What a coincidence, Le Guin speaks very highly of Cordwainer Smith in The Language of the Night. Gonna have to give him a go soon.
Does she? Had no idea, but that may not come has a surprise they both shared the same ability to create entire worlds that were so effing convincing :)