Enjoying a lazy weekend
Feb. 20th, 2006 07:24 pmI will probably never get used to U.S. bank holidays (the timing and naming is so different from the Dutch ones, and why are they so early in the year?), but that doesn't mean I'm not enjoying them.
So while Heidi is studying clavicles and DNA coding for proteins, I'm just sitting back and enjoy doing very little. Cooking, laundry, playing with the kitten, and reading.
I recently read Charles Stross' "The atrocity archives", and the afterword made me reconsider the early books of Led Deighton. So this weekend I re-read "Spy story" and "Horse underwater". and yes they're as good as I remembered them - though not in the manner of existential horror and menace that Stross detects in them. Still thinking of Stross, it was also time to re-read Tim Powers' "Declare", and so far that's a lot better than I remember from the hurried read-through when it first came out. In parts it reminds me of Alan Furst, and this is where the reading may become recursive -- the three piles of new unread books next to my desk will never even be started if I keep this up. Ah well.
So while Heidi is studying clavicles and DNA coding for proteins, I'm just sitting back and enjoy doing very little. Cooking, laundry, playing with the kitten, and reading.
I recently read Charles Stross' "The atrocity archives", and the afterword made me reconsider the early books of Led Deighton. So this weekend I re-read "Spy story" and "Horse underwater". and yes they're as good as I remembered them - though not in the manner of existential horror and menace that Stross detects in them. Still thinking of Stross, it was also time to re-read Tim Powers' "Declare", and so far that's a lot better than I remember from the hurried read-through when it first came out. In parts it reminds me of Alan Furst, and this is where the reading may become recursive -- the three piles of new unread books next to my desk will never even be started if I keep this up. Ah well.