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Code Name Verity!
Oct. 28th, 2012 08:17 pmI had splendid weekend! I have spent it being gloriously unproductive (unless reading Code Name Verity counts - more about that later). For lo! I have seen a cornucopia of friends.
1. Emma and Ryan were in town! We had pides and fried rice and chocolate brioche, and I got Emma to watch Phoebe in Wonderland, which she liked, which relieved me greatly, because it's one of my favorite movies. I also lent her a stack of books, including Code Name Verity, which I did not own until last Friday.
2. I think I convinced my friend Becky to do Yuletide! I am a Yuletide pusher; people mention they write fanfic and I get a manic gleam in my eye and cry "YOU MUST DO YULETIDE YOU MUST YOU MUST!" Crossing my fingers that she actually signs up.
3. My parents just got back from New Zealand! And also it is my mother's birthday, so I drove up and we had dinner, and it was delightful.
And they brought me a copy of the newest Obernewtyn book, The Sending! Which is apparently not the last Obernewtyn book. I think this is the third or fourth Obernewtyn book that was supposed to be the last book, only to unexpectedly mutate into two books in the writing. It is frustrating.
Anyway, I exercised superhuman restraint and did not bring it back with me, because otherwise I would have done nothing all next week but read it, and I already went on my fiction-reading spree with Code Name Verity.
CODE NAME VERITY, you guys. I want to write an actual review of it, except I'm not really coherent about it yet, because the last third pretty much gutted me.
I read about half of it on Thursday evening, and said "Well, this is good, and it is grim, but everyone promised me harrowing and I don't feel harrowed yet, and also I'm exhausted, so I'm going to sleep."
And then the next day I finished it, and by God was I harrowed. By the last bit I was putting the book down every few pages and hopping around the apartment, because I had too many feelings and couldn't sit still, and when I finished I hied myself to the library, through the rain, because I simply could not have the book in the house any longer.
Half an hour later I bundled Emma into the car, spent forty minutes detouring three times around construction, to buy a copy at Barnes and Nobles, which I promptly lent to her.
(This burst of generosity may get in the way of my epic Code Name Verity/I Capture the Castle post-war crossover fic. Epic, you guys. I have so many FEELINGS and they MUST BE CHANNELED.)
( SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS, normally I am totally blase about spoilers but you really, really want to read this book unspoiled )
1. Emma and Ryan were in town! We had pides and fried rice and chocolate brioche, and I got Emma to watch Phoebe in Wonderland, which she liked, which relieved me greatly, because it's one of my favorite movies. I also lent her a stack of books, including Code Name Verity, which I did not own until last Friday.
2. I think I convinced my friend Becky to do Yuletide! I am a Yuletide pusher; people mention they write fanfic and I get a manic gleam in my eye and cry "YOU MUST DO YULETIDE YOU MUST YOU MUST!" Crossing my fingers that she actually signs up.
3. My parents just got back from New Zealand! And also it is my mother's birthday, so I drove up and we had dinner, and it was delightful.
And they brought me a copy of the newest Obernewtyn book, The Sending! Which is apparently not the last Obernewtyn book. I think this is the third or fourth Obernewtyn book that was supposed to be the last book, only to unexpectedly mutate into two books in the writing. It is frustrating.
Anyway, I exercised superhuman restraint and did not bring it back with me, because otherwise I would have done nothing all next week but read it, and I already went on my fiction-reading spree with Code Name Verity.
CODE NAME VERITY, you guys. I want to write an actual review of it, except I'm not really coherent about it yet, because the last third pretty much gutted me.
I read about half of it on Thursday evening, and said "Well, this is good, and it is grim, but everyone promised me harrowing and I don't feel harrowed yet, and also I'm exhausted, so I'm going to sleep."
And then the next day I finished it, and by God was I harrowed. By the last bit I was putting the book down every few pages and hopping around the apartment, because I had too many feelings and couldn't sit still, and when I finished I hied myself to the library, through the rain, because I simply could not have the book in the house any longer.
Half an hour later I bundled Emma into the car, spent forty minutes detouring three times around construction, to buy a copy at Barnes and Nobles, which I promptly lent to her.
(This burst of generosity may get in the way of my epic Code Name Verity/I Capture the Castle post-war crossover fic. Epic, you guys. I have so many FEELINGS and they MUST BE CHANNELED.)
( SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS, normally I am totally blase about spoilers but you really, really want to read this book unspoiled )
