Things

[brigdh]

1. I have finally, finally finished The Mists of Avalon. I was beginning to think that might never happen. I thought perhaps the end of the book would keep receding, always and forever, and all my life I would only ever read about Morgaine being emo and Guinevere whining. But now I am free again, free! I cannot emphasize this enough.

2. It is Halloween-week! Or Halloweek, as friend christened it. I am thus attempting to wear related clothes all week: Monday was the skeleton t-shirt, Tuesday the shirt that says "Boo", today was layers of orange and black. I have two more days, but I may be running low on Halloween-themed clothes. I used to have a Dracula t-shirt, but I seem to have lost that...

3. I had a meeting with one of my professors today, about a paper due next week! She decided that the topic I had chosen, which we had talked about multiple times and which I had already done the majority of the research for, you know, she just doesn't feel like it's a very good idea, so why don't I do this other topic instead? SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGH. DUE. NEXT WEEK. TALKED. MULTIPLE TIMES. But why do I seem upset?

4. My favorite coffee shop now has ginger cookies, and they are amazing: huge and soft and ginger-er than gingerbread, plus with something dark like molasses, and all covered in sparkly sugar. I love them so much. Also, I have chocolate-covered candied ginger. Basically, I'm saying, ginger: NOM NOM NOM.

Comments

[wesleysgirl.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I want those ginger cookies RIGHT NOW. I love ginger cookies. And ginger in general. Yum!

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you like ginger too! Most of the people I know don't.

[weirdquark]

I have a strange fondness for Mists of Avalon. I find it to be excellent beach/travel reading because it's long, I can open it up anywhere and just start, and I don't care when I'm interrupted.

Mmm, soft ginger cookies.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

That makes sense. I have books like that too, that I am sure if I read them for the first time as an adult, I probably would see tons of flaws. But as it is, they are my comfort reading.

[zahrawithaz.livejournal.com]

Just wanted to congratulate you on finishing Mists. I read that book years ago and yet I still remember the joy of finally being DONE with it. Free at last, free at last! Just the thought of Guinevere whining makes me clench now...

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Hee! I'm glad to know other people had the same experience of it as I did. Before I read it, I thought it was such a beloved book.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

I want ginger cookies now. nom nom nom.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Me too!

[psuedo-catalyst.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Mists of Avalon isn't her best, is it? I love the beginning, and there are maybe two or three scenes sprinkled throughout that make me want to cry, but other than that, it can really be a bit irritating.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

I haven't read anything else of hers, but I would hope some of it is better. And there some really great scenes or lines, but they were just too few and far apart.

[seaskystone.livejournal.com]

I hate that book. /constructive comment.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

XD I'm glad we agree!

[bodlon.livejournal.com]

I have finally, finally finished The Mists of Avalon. I was beginning to think that might never happen. I thought perhaps the end of the book would keep receding, always and forever...

That's exactly how I felt when I finished American Psycho.

I'm...not sure how I feel about that other than knowing I'll be putting off Mists for a while longer. Potentially a very long while.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Hee. I kind of liked American Psycho. At least, all the descriptions of food entertained me.

I definitely wish I'd gone for another Arthurian legend than this one.

[supremegoddess1.livejournal.com]

see, your posting about MoA just made me want to re-read it again. Which I'm doing.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Hee! Well, I'm glad to encourage happy-making reading.

[kessie.livejournal.com]

I may have ordered a copy of MoA for myself. It's been almost ten years! I think I'm due a reread.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

I think I might have liked it more if I read it first as a teenager. But I'm glad to have reminded you of it!

[kessie.livejournal.com]

I feel this way about the original Black Jewels trilogy. I have a dreadful soft spot for them that helps me overlook the many flaws because I read the first one when I was about fifteen and then reread them over the years. That said, I've given up on the later novels--Anne Bishop loves her characters way too much and can't really let go of the original ones. She also doesn't want anything bad to happen to them, which makes for pretty boring books.