It's a new year, and nothing's changed. It is just one depressing example of more of the same after another, and I'm just in no mood for it today. I am going to stop reading blogs and headlines and curl up with a good book (again -- still recuperating) and probably just spend today reading and maybe listening to Goetterdaemmerung. By the way, check out my review of this recording of the Ring at Epinions.
First I'll finish 1635: The Cannon Law, a new one in Eric Flint's Ring of Fire series. A collaboration with Andrew Dennis, it's much better than I thought it would be. That sounds terrible, doesn't it? I may be turning into a literary snob, and that would be horrible, seeing as how I'm such a champion of the vernacular. Flint is not someone who has been on my radar very much, and on the basis of this book, this is an intriguing series, worth reading -- it's an alternate history sort of thing. I am wondering if maybe Flint and Dennis are not shorting the cultural disruption caused by plopping a bunch of 21st-century Americans into 17th-century Europe, but so far, it's a fun read. I may go back and pick up on more of the series.
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