Not Baby's First Book, but ah, so entertaining. Read most of it yesterday, too tired to do anything else. Like move. Or draw. Or write. Heck, I'm half falling asleep now as I write this. If I can just survive this week in one piece and insane, work should ease up again.
I meant to write sane.
This is a most excellent book. Martin Millar is a brilliant author. And I will keep repeating this until all you hypothetical readers of this blog believe me and read some of this shit. Ok? Ok.
Short recap: Lux, poet extraordinaire, head and body full of cocaine, wanders around a riot in Brixton, searching for the love of his life, Pearl, who is lost in the riot. Helping him on this most epic quest is Kalia, exiled from Heaven until she can perform 1,000,000 good deeds on Earth. Here, they have a conversation while once again looking for Pearl:
Optimist floods into him. "Did you notice how keen she was to hold my hand? Just about mangled my fingers. And we arranged a day in the country. In fact this has not been a bad night, I got to hold hands with Pearl and I got stuffed full of cocaine."
"You got thrown out of your home."
"I'll find another one."
"You got hit with a brick and mugged."
"It happens."
Lux sniffs, nose still congested.
"Why do you take drugs?"
"Why not?"
"Well that's as good a logical answer as I've heard in three thousand years."
tiistai 19. huhtikuuta 2011
torstai 14. huhtikuuta 2011
The Night Watch
Title: The Night Watch
Author: Sarah Waters
Published: 2006 by Virago
Genre: Historical drama
Pages: 503
Agh! This took me so long! Work has been very hectic for... at least all of this month, and the few times I've had time/chance/concentration enough to read during lunch have been few and far between. But anyway, The Night Watch is now properly re-read!
Actual conversation, though translated to English:
Co-worker: So Kati, what are you reading this time?
Me: Oh? This is, uh, about a few Londoners. In London, during the second World War. Except that the book starts at the end, like, 1947, and tells how the story ends, and then goes back a few times, a few years at a time, to show how the people ended up in the situations they were when the book started. Or ended. It's a cool book!
Co-worker: ...why can't you read a joke-book for a change?
Me: ...
So, in bit more detail, the book indeed follows a few people: Kay, a seemingly lost soul dressed in manly clothes; Helen, a woman jealous over her famous, beautiful lover; Viv, a glamour girl with her married lover; and Duncan, a young man imprisoned over the opinions of others. That's where we set out, and in the end, we do find out what exactly happened to them. And whether they had a happy ending/beginning.
I first read The Night Watch back when I was living in the UK, in 2008, and I liked it very much! I still do, mind, but I guess work and knowing what's going to happen, although I'd forgotten most details, made for slower reading. But like Waters' other books, it's such a thrilling ride. Damn, she's good.
I know it says I'm reading Laughter of Carthage up there, but honestly, I barely got through the intro before work hit. Now, with a nasty flu bugging me as well, I'm lucky if my brain can handle Baby's First Book.
Viv kept her head down; but looked back once. Kay had joined the line of people outside the cinema: she was holding a lighter to her cigarette, and the flame of it, springing up, through the twilight, lit her fingers and face. Hush, Vivien, Viv remembered her saying. The memory was stark, after all this time -stark and terrible- the grip of her hand, the closeness of her mouth. Vivien, hush.
Author: Sarah Waters
Published: 2006 by Virago
Genre: Historical drama
Pages: 503
Agh! This took me so long! Work has been very hectic for... at least all of this month, and the few times I've had time/chance/concentration enough to read during lunch have been few and far between. But anyway, The Night Watch is now properly re-read!
Actual conversation, though translated to English:
Co-worker: So Kati, what are you reading this time?
Me: Oh? This is, uh, about a few Londoners. In London, during the second World War. Except that the book starts at the end, like, 1947, and tells how the story ends, and then goes back a few times, a few years at a time, to show how the people ended up in the situations they were when the book started. Or ended. It's a cool book!
Co-worker: ...why can't you read a joke-book for a change?
Me: ...
So, in bit more detail, the book indeed follows a few people: Kay, a seemingly lost soul dressed in manly clothes; Helen, a woman jealous over her famous, beautiful lover; Viv, a glamour girl with her married lover; and Duncan, a young man imprisoned over the opinions of others. That's where we set out, and in the end, we do find out what exactly happened to them. And whether they had a happy ending/beginning.
I first read The Night Watch back when I was living in the UK, in 2008, and I liked it very much! I still do, mind, but I guess work and knowing what's going to happen, although I'd forgotten most details, made for slower reading. But like Waters' other books, it's such a thrilling ride. Damn, she's good.
I know it says I'm reading Laughter of Carthage up there, but honestly, I barely got through the intro before work hit. Now, with a nasty flu bugging me as well, I'm lucky if my brain can handle Baby's First Book.
Viv kept her head down; but looked back once. Kay had joined the line of people outside the cinema: she was holding a lighter to her cigarette, and the flame of it, springing up, through the twilight, lit her fingers and face. Hush, Vivien, Viv remembered her saying. The memory was stark, after all this time -stark and terrible- the grip of her hand, the closeness of her mouth. Vivien, hush.
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