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garranWhen I first read (Pamela Dean's) Tam Lin, I had never listened to the ballad, and didn't know it, except by reputation and general plot for its mention in Fire and Hemlock, so I only just now got the joke that Janet first meets and is yelled at by Thomas as she's looking through the library for a copy of The Romance of the Rose for her English class. (She had not pulled a double rose / A rose but only two / When up then came young Tam Lin / Said, Lady, pull no more) I'd like to read that book again, although I'm kind of nervous to, since my copy is falling apart (and cola might glare at me if the next thing I read isn't cyberpunk).
Right now I'm reading T.H. White's The Once And Future King, which I got from the library on a bit of a whim; I can tell that I both think it's very good and am not in a mood to have any patience with it. I think that I'll finish The Sword and the Stone (which makes up the first fifth of it, and is surprisingly similar to the way I remember the Disney movie), so as not to be abrupt, and then take it back, and try the rest sometime later. Before that, I read Jo Walton's The King's Name, having read The King's Peace before Harry Potter, and I liked both volumes a lot.
(Jo Walton and Pamela Dean have in common that they each have a fairly accessible internet presence, and a livejournal, which I find kind of heady and surreal. I came to the conclusion a while ago, I think as the result of reading a Neil Gaiman interview, that if I met a famous author I was familiar with I wouldn't be much more flustered or behave much differently than if I met a weblogger I followed but didn't know - the primary difference being how many other people felt the same way - but I still don't generally expect the categories to overlap.)
Yes, I really am staying up this late these days. As usual when that happens, I can't tell at all what my writing's like.
Right now I'm reading T.H. White's The Once And Future King, which I got from the library on a bit of a whim; I can tell that I both think it's very good and am not in a mood to have any patience with it. I think that I'll finish The Sword and the Stone (which makes up the first fifth of it, and is surprisingly similar to the way I remember the Disney movie), so as not to be abrupt, and then take it back, and try the rest sometime later. Before that, I read Jo Walton's The King's Name, having read The King's Peace before Harry Potter, and I liked both volumes a lot.
(Jo Walton and Pamela Dean have in common that they each have a fairly accessible internet presence, and a livejournal, which I find kind of heady and surreal. I came to the conclusion a while ago, I think as the result of reading a Neil Gaiman interview, that if I met a famous author I was familiar with I wouldn't be much more flustered or behave much differently than if I met a weblogger I followed but didn't know - the primary difference being how many other people felt the same way - but I still don't generally expect the categories to overlap.)
Yes, I really am staying up this late these days. As usual when that happens, I can't tell at all what my writing's like.
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Date: 2005-08-02 09:44 pm (UTC)Strangely, cyberpunk seems to be a terrible thing to read if you want to write cyberpunk. I like it so much because it's supposed to be a mirror of the present, so maybe the best thing for you to read would be the newspapers. That should help you with the ennui, too.
(Although it's still working fine as my story journal, so don't make yourself do reading for it 'less you wanna.)