General upheaval
Nov. 9th, 2004 12:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daemonlunaHmm. Nothing like coming in to work, only to be gathered for a meeting after an hour, and told that your boss has been let go. Though I don't think I'd mentioned earlier that they're keeping me on at least until the end of the year. Good news from a purely practical standpoint.
General job dissatisfaction runs rampant in our house right now. My darling![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
troutkitty is also looking around for something better that won't end up in her getting laid off for two months in the middle of the winter. Mrph.
Anyhow, radical change of topic. The Very Quick list of what I've been reading lately:
Re-read of Mairelon the Magician by Patricia Wrede and its sequel whose title I can't remember (The Magician's Ward?), because I've got them both in a SFBC two-in-one. Mmmm, Victorian-period-ish fantasy.
A Coalition of Lions by Elizabeth E. Wein, a YA historical one set in sixth-century Ethiopia, wonderfully rich and evocative in detail. British crown princess travels there after most of her family die in a coupe to meet the Viceroy, her cousin and intended husband. Turns out it's a sequel to The Winter Prince, and the middle of a proposed trilogy.
So B. It by Sarah Weeks. Girl lives with her agoraphobic next-door neightbour and mentally challenged mother, and goes off in search of her mother's origins. Has an almost magic-realism type feel. Kinda neat.
Kira-kira by Cynthia Kadohata. The story of Japanese-American sisters growing up in the fifties. Parents work at awful factory jobs, older sister that the younger one idolizes falls terminally ill. It was very well-written, but one of those books where you're just waiting for something good to happen. And it never, ever does! (When picking this one up, I bypassed the novel about female genital mutilation, so it could have been worse...)
I've got a whole, long list of stuff I haven't blurbed yet, but that's the most recent few.
General job dissatisfaction runs rampant in our house right now. My darling
troutkitty is also looking around for something better that won't end up in her getting laid off for two months in the middle of the winter. Mrph.Anyhow, radical change of topic. The Very Quick list of what I've been reading lately:
Re-read of Mairelon the Magician by Patricia Wrede and its sequel whose title I can't remember (The Magician's Ward?), because I've got them both in a SFBC two-in-one. Mmmm, Victorian-period-ish fantasy.
A Coalition of Lions by Elizabeth E. Wein, a YA historical one set in sixth-century Ethiopia, wonderfully rich and evocative in detail. British crown princess travels there after most of her family die in a coupe to meet the Viceroy, her cousin and intended husband. Turns out it's a sequel to The Winter Prince, and the middle of a proposed trilogy.
So B. It by Sarah Weeks. Girl lives with her agoraphobic next-door neightbour and mentally challenged mother, and goes off in search of her mother's origins. Has an almost magic-realism type feel. Kinda neat.
Kira-kira by Cynthia Kadohata. The story of Japanese-American sisters growing up in the fifties. Parents work at awful factory jobs, older sister that the younger one idolizes falls terminally ill. It was very well-written, but one of those books where you're just waiting for something good to happen. And it never, ever does! (When picking this one up, I bypassed the novel about female genital mutilation, so it could have been worse...)
I've got a whole, long list of stuff I haven't blurbed yet, but that's the most recent few.
