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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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.