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Aug. 5th, 2005 03:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
snoweewellll, I did better with updating last month, but here it is the 5th of August and I have yet to post anything.
I forgot a good friend's birthday last week. Don't know what to get her. We don't talk that much anymore and I feel bad (but she doesn't call me either). It is one of those old friendships that you don't actually have to talk every week - one of those where as long as you contact each other every so often, it's good. I still consider her a good friend, though, because we've been friends since we could walk and we still have a lot of things to talk about when we get together. Anyway, I should come up with something nice on a small budget to send her and apologize.
QaF (US, obviously) will be laid to rest this Sunday. I'm still praying for a satisfying ending. Seems most of my favourite shows always bungle the endings.
Hmm. I have no mood... or thoughts.
I read Tommy's Tale by Alan Cumming a couple weeks ago. I loaned it to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
larue916 who finished it and returned it before I thought of saying something here. LOL. I normally avoid books by celebs like the plague, but this one was at one of those bargain book sales and its cover was just so bright orange and... Well, I'm glad I did! I really loved it. I mean, I could pick it apart in a technical manner, but overall I just truly enjoyed it. It was fun and funny and sweet and dirty. What more could anyone want?
I know I've talked on lj before about literature as food. It's been over a year at least, though. I still use it from time to time. Recently I read some romance novels so that I would know whether or not I could make money that way and also to see how those authors handle things. God. What was I thinking? plugging it into my analogy-generator, I'd say those books are ricecakes. Not those light, flavoured ones that are good for you and still edible. No, I'm talking about the old days when they were just puffed rice stuck together with something that tasted like dried cum. They have nothing, absolutely nothing in them. They are air and they leave that nasty cummy taste in your mouth. Besides, the technical aspects are pathetic. Nothing bothers me more in a novel than runon sentences. I read one lady who is supposed to be highly regarded and her writing made me ill! Putting a period won't stop a runon sentence. Many times she would write dah dah dah the da and da da da da. But da da da. And dadada. Lady, that's a runon sentence with periods in it! I cringed. The story was so... lame. They're all so lame. Okay, I'm pretty confident I could write the lame part. It's the not saying what you mean part. I learned that it is not only in the sex scenes that the books sound like they're written by a timid twelve year old. All throughout they seemed to have trouble stating the things which are not perfectly accepted by conservative society. Whatever.
Sarah Waters... wow. I had been reading these nice well balanced dinners, but SW is like a really juicy, perfectly cooked steak or whatever your choice. I mean, I can sink my teeth in and enjoy it, savour it, get something out of it. Quite amazing.
Tommy's Tale. I'm going to say it's like tiramisu. Sweet stuff, slightly bitter stuff, layers, some of them fanciful and light, others of them a bit more substantial. It's a pleasant mix, but still on the light side; not a whole meal. I'd say it's for the QaF audience at least.
That's all I've got to say...
I forgot a good friend's birthday last week. Don't know what to get her. We don't talk that much anymore and I feel bad (but she doesn't call me either). It is one of those old friendships that you don't actually have to talk every week - one of those where as long as you contact each other every so often, it's good. I still consider her a good friend, though, because we've been friends since we could walk and we still have a lot of things to talk about when we get together. Anyway, I should come up with something nice on a small budget to send her and apologize.
QaF (US, obviously) will be laid to rest this Sunday. I'm still praying for a satisfying ending. Seems most of my favourite shows always bungle the endings.
Hmm. I have no mood... or thoughts.
I read Tommy's Tale by Alan Cumming a couple weeks ago. I loaned it to
larue916 who finished it and returned it before I thought of saying something here. LOL. I normally avoid books by celebs like the plague, but this one was at one of those bargain book sales and its cover was just so bright orange and... Well, I'm glad I did! I really loved it. I mean, I could pick it apart in a technical manner, but overall I just truly enjoyed it. It was fun and funny and sweet and dirty. What more could anyone want? I know I've talked on lj before about literature as food. It's been over a year at least, though. I still use it from time to time. Recently I read some romance novels so that I would know whether or not I could make money that way and also to see how those authors handle things. God. What was I thinking? plugging it into my analogy-generator, I'd say those books are ricecakes. Not those light, flavoured ones that are good for you and still edible. No, I'm talking about the old days when they were just puffed rice stuck together with something that tasted like dried cum. They have nothing, absolutely nothing in them. They are air and they leave that nasty cummy taste in your mouth. Besides, the technical aspects are pathetic. Nothing bothers me more in a novel than runon sentences. I read one lady who is supposed to be highly regarded and her writing made me ill! Putting a period won't stop a runon sentence. Many times she would write dah dah dah the da and da da da da. But da da da. And dadada. Lady, that's a runon sentence with periods in it! I cringed. The story was so... lame. They're all so lame. Okay, I'm pretty confident I could write the lame part. It's the not saying what you mean part. I learned that it is not only in the sex scenes that the books sound like they're written by a timid twelve year old. All throughout they seemed to have trouble stating the things which are not perfectly accepted by conservative society. Whatever.
Sarah Waters... wow. I had been reading these nice well balanced dinners, but SW is like a really juicy, perfectly cooked steak or whatever your choice. I mean, I can sink my teeth in and enjoy it, savour it, get something out of it. Quite amazing.
Tommy's Tale. I'm going to say it's like tiramisu. Sweet stuff, slightly bitter stuff, layers, some of them fanciful and light, others of them a bit more substantial. It's a pleasant mix, but still on the light side; not a whole meal. I'd say it's for the QaF audience at least.
That's all I've got to say...