Miscellany
Jan. 3rd, 2011 01:17 pm1. Buster seems to be getting better. He cried the first night with the sitter, but I'll be home again in a couple of days to reassure him. The first time Gracie saw him wearing the cone, she ran and hid.
2. I'm rereading William McNeill's The Rise of the West. It's sixty years old, and a lot of the ideas in it have apparently been discarded, but it's still insightful. (Remember the "patriarchy follows the plow" bit a few weeks ago? It's in McNeill....)
3. My thanks to![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
filkferengi for introducing me to Jennifer Crusie. I just finished The Cinderella Deal: yes, it's mind-candy; yes, it's a garden-variety "opposites attract" story; but it's fun. (It's the third Crusie I've read, and won't be the last.)
4. I also just finished Naomi Novik's Victory of Eagles. I really like what she's been doing with the series. Yes, the central conceit doesn't work if you think about it, but the arc over the last three books, with Temeraire realizing what's wrong with the human/dragon relationship in Europe and acting to change it, is pretty well done, I think.
2. I'm rereading William McNeill's The Rise of the West. It's sixty years old, and a lot of the ideas in it have apparently been discarded, but it's still insightful. (Remember the "patriarchy follows the plow" bit a few weeks ago? It's in McNeill....)
3. My thanks to
filkferengi for introducing me to Jennifer Crusie. I just finished The Cinderella Deal: yes, it's mind-candy; yes, it's a garden-variety "opposites attract" story; but it's fun. (It's the third Crusie I've read, and won't be the last.)4. I also just finished Naomi Novik's Victory of Eagles. I really like what she's been doing with the series. Yes, the central conceit doesn't work if you think about it, but the arc over the last three books, with Temeraire realizing what's wrong with the human/dragon relationship in Europe and acting to change it, is pretty well done, I think.
