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Dec. 15th, 2006 07:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
littlelotteSo, since I posted my last entry I have seen two people, one as a comment to somebody on my flist by somebody not even on my flist, use PPS. I take this as a sign that it's perfectly reasonable that the use of multiple s's, rather than multiple p's, is a major pet peeve of mine. Ha.
I was in bed nice and early last night, and now long day ahead today: 9am-3ish admin/key at CiP, 5-? serve on the Tortilla Flats side of the restaurant.
I started and nearly finished A.S. Byatt's collection of short stories, Elementals, yesterday. Love. Lovelovelovelovelove. Especially "Cold." "Crocodile Tears" was quite interesting, too, but "Cold" just shows how amazing her grasp of fairy tale writing is (and is really the only fairy tale like story in the collection, though one more has a few elements of fairy tale in it), and what an amazing storyteller she is in general. The Matisse Stories is next, and I also got The Biographer's Tale, though all I've felt like reading recently are short stories, so The Biographer's Tale may have to wait for another check out while I read V. 1&2 of Arabian Nights instead. Also, I wasn't terribly fond of Tanith Lee's White as Snow It took me about a week and a half to read. Granted, part of that was because I became rather sick, but even before I got sick it was hard to just pick up and continue. I do still want to read Tam Lin because I really am interested in reading a longer version of that tale than the summary of the ballad I read somewhere years ago, I just hope her version of the story is more engaging than this version of Snow White was.
I was in bed nice and early last night, and now long day ahead today: 9am-3ish admin/key at CiP, 5-? serve on the Tortilla Flats side of the restaurant.
I started and nearly finished A.S. Byatt's collection of short stories, Elementals, yesterday. Love. Lovelovelovelovelove. Especially "Cold." "Crocodile Tears" was quite interesting, too, but "Cold" just shows how amazing her grasp of fairy tale writing is (and is really the only fairy tale like story in the collection, though one more has a few elements of fairy tale in it), and what an amazing storyteller she is in general. The Matisse Stories is next, and I also got The Biographer's Tale, though all I've felt like reading recently are short stories, so The Biographer's Tale may have to wait for another check out while I read V. 1&2 of Arabian Nights instead. Also, I wasn't terribly fond of Tanith Lee's White as Snow It took me about a week and a half to read. Granted, part of that was because I became rather sick, but even before I got sick it was hard to just pick up and continue. I do still want to read Tam Lin because I really am interested in reading a longer version of that tale than the summary of the ballad I read somewhere years ago, I just hope her version of the story is more engaging than this version of Snow White was.
