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[mamculuna]

I decided not to feel bad about needing a set of new tires and having my washing machine drain back up all over the kitchen floor when my stepdaughter from San Diego called...she's safely evacuated to a friend's house, with all four cats, but imagine leaving your home in the path of the flames. I keep watching the news, as if I'd learn something about her house. Fire. I'd rather have a hurricane or earthquake or tornado, anything but fire.

I'm reading China Mieville for the first time, and started with maybe not the best choice--Un Lun Dun. It's seeming a little cute, but I have that problem with Pratchett and Fforde, too. Maybe I'm too serious.

But speaking of cute, I am liking "Pushing Daisies," a surprise to me, at least. For two episodes anyway. Not sure it will hold up for season after season.

And truly loved Middlesex. Eugenides has something Nabokov-like (and that's good) in his loving descriptions of the oddities of hearts and bodies and even minds.

In lighter news, you can put garlic in anything, even brownies and baked apples.

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[kalimeg.livejournal.com]

I can't read Mieville. I got through the first Fforde, but the second dragged badly and the third died fast -- I won't ever finish it. And of all the Pratchetts I've either read or tried, I've actually liked about three.

So much for being au courant, I guess.

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

The only Prachett I got beyond three pages of was the one he did with Gaiman.

[kalimeg.livejournal.com]

That was _Good Omens_. Gaiman is another one I can't read -- haven't made it through one of his solo books yet.

But _Hogfather_ by Pratchett was actually good -- about Death's granddaughter, Susan. I liked _Guards! Guards!_, too. But others were hoplessly tedious.

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

I do like Gaiman, esp. American Gods, and the Sandman graphic novels. Maybe I'll try Hogfather. So many people like Pratchett--I must bemissing something somewhere.