minority council

by kate griffin

reminded me about how fun she can be!

also, this book is definitely the best of the four. the problems i had with her style initially? that it looked like she was making an effort, that it wasn't as slick as it thought itself to be, it slipped in many places, but made up for it in story? there's none of that! she does SO many awesome things with her story-telling in this book, it really had me hooked from cover to cover. it's absolutely brilliant, is what it is. and what i loved most about her, the city and its magic, is exponentially better in this book.

what can i say. we be life we be fire we be blue electric angels. :)

love!

the pleasures of the damned

I've been reading Bukowski's fat book of poetry like it's a life-jacket. 

there is a loneliness in this world so great

that you can see it in the slow movement of

the hands of a clock

I've been thinking about somethings since I read Factotum. About aspirations, work, money, jobs, my own, someone else's; dreams, lists of things to do (the concept of these things, and obviously, my own as well).

Because, see, Bukowski, he makes it seem okay not to have any of these things. Because, see, Bukowski, he seems to know the truth about normal lives and regular people. (The people are nice people, I / like them. / but I feel them drowning / and I can't save them.)  

Like I've said before, I don't know if Bukowski's good for my current state of mind. 

But this, coupled with re-reading all that fantasy with heroes and journeys and swords and things, is definitely fucking with my head. I guess my real problem is that I can't decide if my neighbors are just people who go to sleep at 9PM or, you know, something else.

This post has started to meander. Oh well.


ps. first extract from "the crunch", second extract from "safe". 

If you're wondering why I haven't posted here in over a month, the sad and unfortunate truth of it is that I'm mostly only reading heavy (I paid extra for excess baggage, bitch!) and absolutely incredibly boring, but goldmine in terms of, you know, data (*punches air*) things with titles like "Report of the Commissioner of So-and-So to the President, 1979". They even have sentences in them such as "Levirate is in vogue." That's a legit word, by the way. (Although not a legit sentence very much, one would think.)
Anyway, I shouldn't be reading anything else until I really really figure out this next chapter, so if I manage to sneak in a reading of Earthsea Quartet (Ursula LeGuin), I'll tell you all about it. I also really want to read the new Kate Griffin book, so whenever Flipkart decides to drop it off at my house, I'll drop everything else and read that, so there's always that.
Until then, enjoy the rain and drink a large cup of coffee for me (because I can't, for some reason. Not a funny one either.)