In the dead days
Dec. 29th, 2009 03:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thanateI once read, or possibly listened to an audio book of a work entitled The Book of Dead Days (which was very gothic YA, with pseudo-Victorian orphans, ancient crypts and evil sorcerers, etc) set in the "dead days" of the week between Christmas and New Year's, on the premise that they were liminal, or somehow intercalery and thus anything could happen. Usually in my life rather little happens, save for marking another year older and generally reading a lot of books and feeling crossly at loose ends for no particularly good reason.
Recent Books so far (in girly YA): Shannon Hale's Princess Academy (surprisingly worthy; I was a little worried after hearing just the premise) and Book of a Thousand Days (excellent, and thoroughly worth reading). Sharon Shinn's General Winston's Daughter, which was well written but involved a lot of hoping the main character wasn't actually being as foolish as she did in fact turn out to be. And then I took Celia Rees' Sovay back to the library before getting to chapter three due to being full of idiotic teenagers, terribly transparent morality, and confusingly wandering 3rd person points of view. Instead, I got another stack of books that included Cynthia Voigt's Jackaroo which was quite good and I can't imagine why I didn't read it earlier. I'm contemplating doing a sentence or three year book retrospective, since I started writing all the titles down starting in January. We shall see.
We had a Christmas for a Better Kitchen, and I'm in the middle of rotating large numbers of glasses we haven't used in the last eight months out of the cabinets so I have places to put away the lovely ceramic casseroles my parents got us, my new beaters (with their own carry case...?), and glamorous (energy star!) crock pot. Anyone have favorite crock pot recipes to share?
Recent Books so far (in girly YA): Shannon Hale's Princess Academy (surprisingly worthy; I was a little worried after hearing just the premise) and Book of a Thousand Days (excellent, and thoroughly worth reading). Sharon Shinn's General Winston's Daughter, which was well written but involved a lot of hoping the main character wasn't actually being as foolish as she did in fact turn out to be. And then I took Celia Rees' Sovay back to the library before getting to chapter three due to being full of idiotic teenagers, terribly transparent morality, and confusingly wandering 3rd person points of view. Instead, I got another stack of books that included Cynthia Voigt's Jackaroo which was quite good and I can't imagine why I didn't read it earlier. I'm contemplating doing a sentence or three year book retrospective, since I started writing all the titles down starting in January. We shall see.
We had a Christmas for a Better Kitchen, and I'm in the middle of rotating large numbers of glasses we haven't used in the last eight months out of the cabinets so I have places to put away the lovely ceramic casseroles my parents got us, my new beaters (with their own carry case...?), and glamorous (energy star!) crock pot. Anyone have favorite crock pot recipes to share?