Miscellany
Jul. 6th, 2007 11:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stoutfellow1. I had to cancel Murphy's appointment. I put too much faith in the wagon idea, and left myself too little time to execute Plan B. We'll get it done next week.
2. There's a headline over at Yahoo MLB to the effect that Chipper Jones is now the Braves' all-time home run leader. Uhh, no. The most he can claim (and the article does make that clear) is being the Atlanta Braves' all-time home run leader. Taking the Boston/Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves as a whole, there's this fella named Hank... [I could understand, e.g., the Baltimore Orioles dumping the record of the St. Louis Browns down the memory hole, but the Braves? Tsk.]
3. I've begun reading Jonathan Stroud's The Amulet of Samarkand, and so far I'm delighted. The political background resembles that of Garrett's Lord Darcy series, with Prague replacing Krakow, but Stroud seems to have less faith in the British wizard-run government than Garrett did in his neo-feudal Anglo-French Empire. Bartimaeus the djinni is a fun character - and, since the book is billed as part of the Bartimaeus Trilogy, I expect to see quite a bit more of him!
4. I should probably put together a few reviews soon. I just finished The Sharing Knife: Legacy, and I'd also like to say a few words about Queen of Angels and about a couple of the nonfiction works I've read lately. Not to mention the next Ramble.... Soon, soon.
2. There's a headline over at Yahoo MLB to the effect that Chipper Jones is now the Braves' all-time home run leader. Uhh, no. The most he can claim (and the article does make that clear) is being the Atlanta Braves' all-time home run leader. Taking the Boston/Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves as a whole, there's this fella named Hank... [I could understand, e.g., the Baltimore Orioles dumping the record of the St. Louis Browns down the memory hole, but the Braves? Tsk.]
3. I've begun reading Jonathan Stroud's The Amulet of Samarkand, and so far I'm delighted. The political background resembles that of Garrett's Lord Darcy series, with Prague replacing Krakow, but Stroud seems to have less faith in the British wizard-run government than Garrett did in his neo-feudal Anglo-French Empire. Bartimaeus the djinni is a fun character - and, since the book is billed as part of the Bartimaeus Trilogy, I expect to see quite a bit more of him!
4. I should probably put together a few reviews soon. I just finished The Sharing Knife: Legacy, and I'd also like to say a few words about Queen of Angels and about a couple of the nonfiction works I've read lately. Not to mention the next Ramble.... Soon, soon.
