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[clevermanka]

mckitterick sent this to me yesterday, with the memo "This site was created for you." Indeed it was. I present to you: White Whine, shining moments of first-world white privilege, posted on the interwebs for your reading pleasure.

Last night was another eight hours of intermittent wakefulness brought on by nightsweats and cramping. I am not at my best, and one mean-spirited, sniping post a month is enough from anyone. Hence, I'm off LJ for the rest of the day.

Since I'm not up for much of anything else, it looks like more SF reading on the couch with a heating pad today. Yesterday I finished The Dervish House, which got a little slow in the middle but ramped up again and ended in a very pleasing manner, and got about 2/3 of the way through WWW: Watch, which is fun and a good read, but isn't saying anything new. I really liked The Quantum Thief for world-building, but it isn't for lazy readers. You've got to be willing to jump into a world that you're simply not going to understand. In that way, it's very similar to Living Next Door the the God of Love (which I thought was fantastic). So far, Yarn is the most likely of the bunch to be generally well-received (I think). It's approachable, the characters are well-rounded, and it has some interesting statements to make about humanity and how our aspirations are shaped by our environment. I'm not going to be mean by mentioning the books I've put down after three (or fewer chapters). How magnanimous, right?

So, ta.

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[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

I ordered in a copy of Yarn and should be receiving it in the mail pretty soon. I also signed out a copy of The Dervish House from the library.

All that being said, I'm currently reading Perfume and Rashomon.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

I'm currently reading Perfume and Rashomon

I googled that for about five minutes, thinking there was a new book out called Perfume and Roshomon. HA! I need to actually drink this coffee that's sitting here.

[indigodreamer.livejournal.com]

Ha! Hilarious website. :)

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

If only everyone could have their problems...

[kalimeg.livejournal.com]

Cute. I suppose from time to time we all have our White Whines.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

And then we post them to our FaceBook!

[pamelonian.livejournal.com]

Perhaps it would be kinder to tell us which books were unreadable to save the rest of us the trouble.

Love White Whines! I now have to think about filtering any whine that I post so that I won't make it onto the site.

I felt especially bad for the guy who found out he made too much money to contribute to a Roth IRA. Poor baby!

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

which books were unreadable

So far, it's a pretty short list. And unlikely that you'll come across many of them at the public library. I can email you the titles, if you're worried. =)