Long weekend with limited Internet access… I felt so… disconnected.<\/p>\n
However, my family and I once again went to that big used bookstore and bought bunches of books. I bought Orson Scott Card’s Xenocide<\/em> and Children of the Mind<\/em>, so I now have all eight books of the two quartets (and I’ve read half of them… still need to start Speaker for the Dead<\/em>). I also bought two short story collections edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois called A.I.s<\/em> and Beyond Flesh<\/em>. (I searched forever for a collection that might include Mimsy Were the Borogoves<\/em>, but alas, my search was fruitless.) I bought T. H. White’s The Once and Future King<\/em> and The Book of Merlyn<\/em>. (I love the idea of writing an epic symphonic suite for those books!) I got Ursula K. Le Guin’s A Wizard of Earthsea<\/em>. Lastly, and non-fictionally, I got Aaron Copland’s What to Listen for in Music<\/em>, which is at least refreshing. He sometimes says things I completely agree with, and other times I just want to knock his head for his choice of words. I guess it’s written more for listeners than composers, but I’m sure I’ll learn something when he starts talking about the musical forms\/structures.<\/p>\n Oh, I also got the DVD of The Prestige<\/em>, which I enjoyed in theaters and haven’t seen since (though I did read the book over Christmas break). I look forward to watching it again.<\/p>\n I finished reading The Name of the Wind<\/em>, so hopefully I’ll put up a small review of it here tomorrow. I’m now reading Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes<\/em>, which is fun so far, I love<\/em> his style. (This is the first book I’ve read of his.) I could probably never write in such a style, but I love reading it, it just flows quite poetically. And it seems pretty unique to me. I can easily imagine some lesser writer trying to mimic the style but losing too much meaning. It’ll probably be a much shorter read than The Name of the Wind<\/em>, which took me forever to get through.<\/p>\n Well, I gotta go to bed, I have much work to do tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Long weekend with limited Internet access… I felt so… disconnected. However, my family and I once again went to that big used bookstore and bought bunches of books. I bought Orson Scott Card’s Xenocide and Children of the Mind, so I now have all eight books of the two quartets […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7gI4B-56","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}