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[mamculuna]

I am now allowed to wear a real shoe on my mending foot for an hour today and an hour more each day, and best of all, get to drive! My Beetle is not totaled (not sure I'm glad about this) so I will soon have a car of my own to drive. Life is better. However, will probably still sell the Beetle, but Bill's car will be here while he's in Chicago, and my sister's old car is also around. When we sell the house in Asheville, I think I'll get a newer car for myself, maybe a slightly used Honda Fit, which a couple of friends have. I'd like to get a Prius, but unless they're very used, they're out of my range (and I do like little cars. Wonder if the Fit comes in a 5-speed?)

I finished ASOIAF. Now I can seen where it falls apart for me--it's A Feast for Crows, when a whole gang of new characters take center stage and the ones who figured in the first three books are out of sight. So have to hope this all comes together in A Dance of Dragons, or it will turn out to be one of those series that starts with a bang and ends with a fizzle.

And now I've started The Swan Thief by Elizabeth Kostova. I loved The Historian, but reviews of this aren't promising. So far (maybe 40 pages into it) it's OK, but not gripping. We shall see.

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[kalimeg.livejournal.com]

Actually, George's original plan was to skip out on the first characters and start a whole new group in the cold season. His publisher nixed this, and he has been clumping through successor stories of the first characters ever since. Me, I think his publishers should have left him alone. The last two books have been overburdened with ... stiff that needed a good editor, or perhaps stuff that should have been skipped according to the original plan.

In any case, I could have skipped the last two for a good story.

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

That's interesting. But it would have left a lot of loose ends, in a way--a good many of the first main ones are either dead or sort of resolved, but the whole big drift of the Others and the dragons--if Jon and Dany aren't in the picture, don't see what he could have done with them. And the new characters, esp. in the 4th book, just don't have the charisma of the first set. Cersei is way too predictable, and Sam and Brienne, well...as secondary characters, very nice, but not enough to serve as the main focus. Sansa and Little Finger are way behind Tyrion and Arya, too.

But maybe if he'd done it his way, it would have been different. Clearly his heart wasn't in this stuff. Do you know anything about what will happen in the final book--or if it is the final book?

[kalimeg.livejournal.com]

Not final -- he's mentioned 7. This coming one takes on the characters who were missing in the last book -- its length got out of hand so he sort of made a north/south split and kept writing while letting half be published.

:(

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

Oh, I remember--next is Winds of Winter and then there's one about spring, I think. It sounds like Dragons is getting out of hand, too. I just hope it gets back to where he was in the first ones.

[zoe-1418.livejournal.com]

You could get a used Toyota Matrix. We have a 2005 -- the sport model, with 6 speeds and a sunroof.

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

That looks cool! I'll look around at the used versions available here.

[habibti.livejournal.com]

Yay for the healing!

Foot injuries must be catching - so many people I know have had them in the last sex months, including me!

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

Oh, no! Hope you're recovering well. I was at a concert Sunday afternoon and saw two other people in camboots, so it must be contagious.

The sex months are dangerous...:-D