thankfully there is coffee in the morning

[threeplusfire]

I've felt eight kinds of wonky in the past 24 hours. Part of me would just like to sleep for a week, and part of me is restless enough to drive out of state. I'd just be glad if we settled on one or two contradictory impulses as compared to several. But we just have to survive this last week and get moved into the new building. I'm at loose ends again, now that I've finished the Novick books. Maybe I'll re-read Anna Karenina or something weighty to keep me from floating away.

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Moving Office!

[bronchitikat.livejournal.com]

Oh boy, poor you, & in all that heat too.

Just hope you're settled in soon with all services connected & all files found!

I read "Ill Met by Moonlight" by Mercedes Lackey & someone else recently. Might that interest you? I tried "Anna Karenina" & just gave up. Think it was the Russian mentality. After all, I read Dickens for pleasure, sometimes. Or maybe it was that I still had two children at home at the time!

Re: Moving Office!

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Office moving is crazy, and even worse as a government office!

It has been some time since I read any Mercedes Lackey, but I think my mother has a number of her books. Maybe I'll pick one up.

Oddly, Anna Karenina is the only one of Tolstoy's novels I like. I rather think his short stories are more compelling.

Re: Moving Office!

[bronchitikat.livejournal.com]

I once tried "War & Peace", just to say I had, & came rather unstuck on that too. Maybe I just can't hack the Russian mentality? Or anything more densely written than Dickens - though come to think of it, some of his prose passages are pretty dense, like wading through cold treacle!

Don't usually like short stories, no sooner have you sorted out who is who than they're over & you have to start again!

I read a Mercedes Lackey trilogy a while back - the one with the Heralds & Healers & people living in & around trees (sorry, completely forget titles). Found it interesting but each book very much followed almost exactly the same pattern. Also her take on the "Swan Lake" story, which I found better.

[rockstarbob.livejournal.com]

Now seems as good a time as any to ask if you've read any Robert Jordan or Tad Williams.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Yes to both. Maybe I'll reread Tad Williams, it has been too long!

[alainn-sorcha.livejournal.com]

I hate that feeling; like the only thing holding yourself together is your skin. And that just barely.

*hugs*

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

I know. It's just headache inducing. It was hard to drag myself to work today.

When you re-read Anna Karenina...

[bjohnson.livejournal.com]

... do you read it in Russian?

Re: When you re-read Anna Karenina...

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

I could if I wanted to go very slowly. ;) I was actually thinking of the beautiful Volokhonsky/Peaver translation I have. I really enjoy their translations both for the grace and for excellent footnotes.

[cjwriter.livejournal.com]

I read AK in high school and it's still one of my favorite books, although I haven't read it since.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

I own a beautiful translation that I really should crack open now. It's such a good story.