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Am tired, head hurts, and am coming down with something resembling a cold. Hack hack. I can feel the capacity for something resembling intelligent comments and replies and entries draining away by the minute ;). Mostly am on pins and needles waiting for Company to call me back.

Also, note to self, while Wizard of the Pigeons is a good book, it is not necessarily the most optimal book to read while feeling vaguely depressed and greyish in mood. Will instead continue the reread of Sorcery and Cecelia.

Really do not want to go to interview tomorrow.

Wish job search were corporeal so I could stab it to death with sporks.

McKillip, Patricia A. - Alphabet of Thorn

I am very much in love with this book, and the book within this book, and everyone in the book, except, strangely, Nepenthe and Bourne.

I am also too tired to do anything resembling an intelligent write-up, and I'm never very good at pinpointing why I like things in McKillip books anyhow, so this is mostly going to be unconnected sentences.

I think I didn't like Nepenthe that much because she had the aura of Destiny about her, or something, and also, I completely did not understand the relationship between Bourne and her. I did very much like Vevay and Tessera, though, especially Tessera, because she was unsuited for the job everyone wanted her to do but had her own hidden strengths (me? projecting? never). I also loved that one of the acts that had the largest impact on the plot was the act of translating ^_^. It's interesting reading this right after Atrix Wolfe and remembering the power of words and names in that book and the power of stories and also of names in this book.

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Links:
- rilina's review