![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Stuck in the Mud
Jun. 12th, 2010 05:16 pmI still haven't gotten much done this summer. I'm subcataloging Final Harvest, an anthology of Emily Dickinson's poetry; watching my B5 DVDs (just finished Season One); plowing through Fortson's book on Indo-European; continuing to watch in amazement as the Padres stay in the NL West race (after a couple of days in second, they are again tied for first with the EBE); and... not doing much else.
I just finished rereading all of the Robert Charles Wilson in my collection - The Chronoliths, Darwinia, and Spin. Of course it was Spin that got all the attention a few years ago, but I honestly think The Chronoliths is better. Both books deal with a world coming apart at the seams in response to an incomprehensible event (or series of events), but The Chronoliths gives a richer picture. Wilson is one of the better artists of sensawunda around, at the moment, but he does it in a remarkably gritty way, and I find it... not entirely pleasant, but worth experiencing.
I moved on from Wilson to a reread of Holdstock's Mythago Wood - speaking of the "not entirely pleasant, but worth experiencing". I think, for some reason, I'm getting more out of it this time through.
I think I have an infection in my left ear. My hearing had been subsiding into the muffled state that usually indicates trouble with earwax, but it's not responding to the usual treatments and it's become painful in the last day or so. I'll have to get it dealt with ASAP; I certainly don't want to fly to California (for my dad's BD/Father's Day celebration) with a malfunctioning ear!
I just finished rereading all of the Robert Charles Wilson in my collection - The Chronoliths, Darwinia, and Spin. Of course it was Spin that got all the attention a few years ago, but I honestly think The Chronoliths is better. Both books deal with a world coming apart at the seams in response to an incomprehensible event (or series of events), but The Chronoliths gives a richer picture. Wilson is one of the better artists of sensawunda around, at the moment, but he does it in a remarkably gritty way, and I find it... not entirely pleasant, but worth experiencing.
I moved on from Wilson to a reread of Holdstock's Mythago Wood - speaking of the "not entirely pleasant, but worth experiencing". I think, for some reason, I'm getting more out of it this time through.
I think I have an infection in my left ear. My hearing had been subsiding into the muffled state that usually indicates trouble with earwax, but it's not responding to the usual treatments and it's become painful in the last day or so. I'll have to get it dealt with ASAP; I certainly don't want to fly to California (for my dad's BD/Father's Day celebration) with a malfunctioning ear!
