I can't believe Tania's wedding is over

[petronia]

To the extent that it took me 48-plus hours to post about it. XD; But despite my best efforts this isn't really a RL journal. In fact the more involved and important RL happenings are, the less likely it is that I'd rehash them online, out of sheer lack of energy.

Yesterday there was AKCHUL SUN so I biked to NDG via Hampstead (having promised smurfmatic a photoessay on the little cottages on the residential stretch of Queen Mary, for the Spacing Magazine blog). The stated purpose was to exchange a CD I took away from Alex G's apartment by mistake after the bachelorette, but I ended up retrieving a bunch of stuff from his fridge as well, including all the fruit juice dude apparently doesn't drink. Then I sat in a park and read some Ravages of Time.

Today there was MOAR SUN so I headed out to Chinatown, got a papaya smoothie and walked due east until I got to Papineau. Not being francophone or a gay man, I'd never gone further east on Saint Catherine than Beaudry metro, though the rationale sounds pretty retarded when written out that way... actually I lie, the one MUTEK/Piknic night with the Wighnomy Brothers in the gorgeous converted police station was well into the Village (2006 I think?). But that was late at night. XD; In any case I never even knew that stretch of Saint Catherine turns into a pedestrian street in the summer. Would've made a nice photoessay too, had I thought to bring my camera. Also got to check out the graffiti artists happening near Fouf (and the half-pipe competition; there was this ten-year-old kid holding his own against guys old enough to be his dad).

Got Five Hundred Years Later from flemmings and read. Got Dragon from the bookstore and read half of. Lots of answered questions, still more questions raised - and three pages into the latter Brust fires a warning shot across the reader's bow to the effect that he's going to start retconning, oh lol. AS IF THE TIMELINE WEREN'T HARD ENOUGH AS IS. Had Terry Pratchett written about Adron's Disaster there would have been a number of amusing digressions on the topic of statistical improbability. But I was right: Paarfi ends it better than Dumas. XD;

Tachiyomi'd Chuck Palahniuk's Snuff in the bookstore - it took 90 minutes. Sort of mildly satisfying minor Palahniuk, I guess. XD Was going to say that it seemed to have the scope of a short story rather than a novel, but come to think of it that's not right: what it really ought to be, is a play. Literally it only has about four characters standing around, monologuing away to themselves.

Also... well, didn't catch up on Steel Ball Run, per se, but read chapter 38. The last chapter I'd read before that was 34, and there were a couple missing before that. It's very close to wrapping up, I think, which is to say the last couple of plot twists have been awesome.

Comments

[worldserpent.livejournal.com]

Yep, Brust is amusing that way, isn't he? I don't think I've read a fantasy series with as confusing a timeline, although in the last two books at least he's doing things linearly.

Ooooh, SBR is going to end soon? I think I'll just read it in one shot when it's finished, then.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Thus far Dragon is by far the most difficult timeline-wise, and gave me the decided impression that I'd have to re-read the entire series to figure out what I was supposed to have learnt from it. XD;

[worldserpent.livejournal.com]

When Kali read the series and wanted to talk to me about the specifics, I found I had a hard time because it's been so long. Brust seems to be hard at work at continuing the series, though, so my hopes are high.