Well, I tried to get some order into my thoughts, like I said I would, but by the time I'm done with that I'm probably going to be a year past this series, so I'll just leave them confused. ;-) Besides, I have some RL worries, too, and rambling about books is my idea of relaxation, so.

I just started volume 4 of the series, The Shadow Rising, and this time it's almost a thousand pages. 974 pages, to be exact.

Yes, I always check that by going to the last page of a new book and no, I don't actually read the ending while doing so. Usually. Accidents happen. But not this time.

This might actually be the longest book in the series. At least, the others all look slimmer. Like, around 700 pages each, maybe. I'm still amazed that someone wrote a story this long and got it published, too. These days we seem to be living in the Age of the Trilogy, at least when it comes to the Fantasy genre. And if you still have something to say after three volumes, why, then you simply start a new trilogy. No joke. I think there's at least one book series I'm aware of where that happened.

( Spoilers up to Book Three )

Right, enough for tonight. I actually mean to continue reading those books, not just talk about them.

 

From ghanistarkiller .





What type of Fae are you?

Via the Winter is Coming blog and Wikipedia.

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Well, well. The actor for Jaime isn't as ugly as I had feared. Looks quite nice actually. Not exactly what I had in mind but I suppose you can't have everything. I wasn't able to find pictures for the actors playing Sansa, Arya, Theon or Robb so no comment there. But I checked the actress playing Dany and I found a picture of her as Katherine Howard in The Tudors. And that looked almost perfect. :-) Very good.

And now, back to work. :-)

You Are 32% Girly

You are a pretty hardcore tomboy, and a very free spirit. Gender roles be dammed, you like to do things your way.

They actually asked whether you did ballett as a child... What about: I did, but I was the most hopeless person ever at it? Anyway, I like the result.

I'm enjoying my time off. I'm still playing Neverwinter Nights 2 and I still haven't been killed. This somehow makes me ridiculously happy. :P

In the evenings I read, so I haven't stopped reading altogether yet. There isn't that much left of my current book, A Feast For Crows, and I'll have to wait til September for the fifth book in the series. And even then, that book will "only" tell about what happened to the other half of the characters in the same timeframe that AFFC covers. That means, no more Jaime Lannister or Loras Tyrell! How am I to cope with that? I'll be crying, I tell you. At least the next book will have Arya and Asha and Dany and Jon. And hopefully more of Stannis and Davos, too. (I refuse to believe the rumours about Davos, I simply refuse!)

So, which book will I read next? Any suggestions? Something with little romance, please. I'm thinking about the books of Torey Hayden. Does anyone know her? I've read One Child years ago and it really impressed me. I think I borrowed it back then, but maybe I'll buy it now, because I'd like to read it again and have it in my library. She has written some other books, too, that are based on true stories. Ghost Child sounds especially interesting. It seems to be about a little girl who believes she is a ghost and trying to find out what happened to her to cause this.

Apart from that, I really want some more asoiaf icons!

Good news.  My friend and I will go to the m'era luna festival this year. That's a (rather tame, from what I've heard) Goth music festival that lasts 2 days. 8th and 9th August to be exact. It's in Hildesheim, a city not too far away from where we live. It's kind of expensive, costing about 75 €, but we hope the tickets will be for both days then.

I'm really excited because some of my favourite bands will play there: Subway to Sally and l'ame imortelle, which I've never seen live before, and Nightwish (!), too. Together with lots of other bands, so I hope I'll discover some new music I like. Apart from that this finally gives me a reason to do something I've been wanting to do for ages: Go to Kick's Fashion (an amazing, expensive shop, selling the most beautiful Goth clothes ever) and buy something there. Because now I'll finally have a reason to wear it. :-)

latin_cat , want to come visit? ;-) You like that kind of music, too, don't you? :D

I don't know, just like I want to go back to bed and do nothing.

Yesterday I finally went and made all those copies. It's always such fun to copy what feels like 200 pages out of several books... *rolls eyes* And then that stupid machine started acting weird in the middle of it and started copying only half of the pages...I hope nobody was waiting outside the room and heard the unfriendly things I called it. ;-)

I read about half of the linguistics part of it in the afternoon. I sat outside with my mother, me with my texts and her trying to read a novel. It was kind of funny, because I kept telling her what was in the texts and she must have thought me really weird... (Like: "Ooooh, this is interesting! Mum, listen! Did you know that this particular language behaves like (insert weird facts here) because of (and more weird facts here)....!") In the end all she said was: "Well, it's good that you love it that much." Which probably meant: "You're so weird, but at least you enjoy it." LOL

I also thought about how difficult it must be for people growing up with English and then learning Latin. I mean with native speakers of German you can say: "Okay, this word is femininum." and they get that. With native speakers of English? What do you tell them? "Yeah, so this word is femininum. That's something...well, your language doesn't really have that...." O_ o I mean, at least English words have nothing at the end of a word that shows things like that. Your words...really look quite the same most of the time. And I can't believe students still forget that "s" in third person singular verbs, when learning English!

Now, that essay I told you about. The one I can write and get a point for it, which I want to at least try... It's supposed to be 5-6 pages, be on the basis of a couple of texts and answer the following questions/deal with the following topics: Renaissance (can't spell that....) and Humanismus, worldview in that era, the role of philosophers and "magicians" (no, really). Two weeks left for that, so I'll start reading the texts today. Hey, if it means I don't have to do a presentation in that seminar...:D

Actually I have quite a lot to write about I think. Especially some things maelicia made me remember recently...

But since today will be a busy day and I also wanted to post some more Sim pics, well, I think I'll do the pretty, fun thing first and the meaningful stuff later. Provided I've enough energy left after the work part of the day... ;-)

( Simmies behind the cut )

This time from another family, where the parents were deliberately chosen to get cute kids.

I can't decide who's cuter, though.

( Look here )