Happily old

[sqbr]

Thanks to everyone who came to my birthday dinner, it was great. My brother(*) and sister even came, and got along with people and everything! People who didn't come are forgiven I guess. Got lots of cool presents and chocolate, the latter of which was possibly partly responsible for me having to leave work early with nausea though that would be a very unusual reaction(**) and I didn't eat very much. So far the ordinary Lindt dark chocolate (not the 70% cocoa stuff) is my favourite :)

Anyway this did mean I got the chance to read The Sharing Knife. Not quite finished and I must say I'm a little dissapointed. nico_wolfwood warned me that it was more "traditional fantasy" than her more mythological/theological previous fantasy books, but what she should have said was "cliched girly fantasy romance". Feisty young girl leaves behind her small minded farmer family and encounters love and adventure with a war scarred, much older man with semi magical powers who she slowly teaches to love again? Guh! It's even "Book 1" of a series :( It is good for what it is, and if I didn't know she could do better I'd just enjoy it in the same way as I enjoy Tamora Pierce (Only more so). Still, the more time she spends writing stuff like this the less time she has for interesting fiction.

Also, we have cupboards! Unfortunately I was napping/reading for the afternoon, and Cam is napping now so our clothes are still beboxed.

(*)The ones who's 20, not 10 :)
(**)In that it came on very suddenly 5 hours later. I think a recent change in tummy medication is more likely which is annoying since chocolate I can avoid but I'm kind of stuck on this new lower dosage.

Comments

[pedanther]

So, it's by the author of The Spirit Ring, then. Hmm.

For what it's worth, I gather that it's not a *series* so much as it's a single novel being published in two parts because it turned out much longer than expected.

[alias_sqbr]

Is "The Spirit Ring" like that too? I haven't read it.

Yeah, being part 1 of 2 is ok I suppose. I'm not sure the plot justifies the length though.

[nephron.livejournal.com]

There's a Lindt dark chocolate that's not 70%? I thought the dark chocolate only came in 70 and 85 percent, except for the Lindor balls (60%).

[alias_sqbr]

According to the label it's 40% cocoa solids. Oddly, I can't find it online, I think it's the same as this stuff, except mine says "dark chocolate" rather than "bittersweet".

[nephron.livejournal.com]

Ah, right. I've never looked at the 300g blocks.

I have dark chocolate thins (about 50% cocoa solids), yay!

[nico-wolfwood.livejournal.com]

You've pretty much summarised my opinion of the book but I didn't want to tell you in case you became unduly prejudiced. Or something. Or possibly asked me to buy you something else instead. *grin* (I was all out of ideas.)

[alias_sqbr]

Actually I probably would have enjoyed it more if I'd have had suitably low expectations, but it is hard to judge that sort of thing.