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kick in the shins
Apr. 7th, 2011 08:21 pmI am in the midst of a sinus infection. Thankfully I saw my very nice doctor today and she set me up with some antibiotics. I rarely ever take them (I have this habit of usually being a healthy person and my doctor is hesitant to prescribe antibiotics like it is pez) so it seemed like a good way to go to town on this evilness. I was at a low point yesterday and tried a nasal decongestant. I have never taken one of those before and while it allowed my face to not feel as if it was full of wet cotton for a couple of hours; it also made my heart race and gave me a migraine and made me feel sick to my stomach. You know... if I wanted to do speed... I'd do speed. So forget that.
When I am not battling my nasal cavities, I have been reading books. (nice segue eh?)
I just finished reading another Alan Furst novel. He is all about the inter-war/early WWII espionage genre. Some say he re-invented it. I love how he started writing these books because he wanted to read something like that. This one was "Spies of Warsaw" and it mostly focused on this French military officer who works in Poland for the French embassy in 1937. So it had the heavily researched detail of the period and kick-ass spy stuff, baddie Germans and people who aren't entirely what they seem. I enjoy these books too much.
I am now reading The Fry Chronicles which is the second volume of memoirs by Stephen Fry. It covers the period from his years at Cambridge (he went to the same college as Mr. Jenner. Little known awesome fact. Though that isn't in the book. But you can walk around and casually drop into conversation some day, "Yes. Queens' college, I know of a couple of lovely chaps who went there.") to his early years of writing/acting. (so... mostly the 80s) He has a habit in that Stephen Fry sort of way of going off on some sort of tangent on some minor detail and it often becomes verbose and vaguely confession-like. I suppose most memoirs do that but he is at least funny about it and recognizes his own weak points without climbing on the cross. After all someone needs the wood.
The stuff about his relationship with Hugh Laurie is incredibly sweet; especially about when they first got to know one another and began to write together. He spoke of that perfect moment of "falling into collaboration with one another". How it is like love in a way. That natural ease and surprise of the creative process. So let's thank Emma Thompson for that.
I do believe I am enjoying this book.
Let's see... more books lined up but that is always the way. Trying to figure out what to read next and thinking casual thoughts of brownies and pie. But that is always the way with me.
When I am not battling my nasal cavities, I have been reading books. (nice segue eh?)
I just finished reading another Alan Furst novel. He is all about the inter-war/early WWII espionage genre. Some say he re-invented it. I love how he started writing these books because he wanted to read something like that. This one was "Spies of Warsaw" and it mostly focused on this French military officer who works in Poland for the French embassy in 1937. So it had the heavily researched detail of the period and kick-ass spy stuff, baddie Germans and people who aren't entirely what they seem. I enjoy these books too much.
I am now reading The Fry Chronicles which is the second volume of memoirs by Stephen Fry. It covers the period from his years at Cambridge (he went to the same college as Mr. Jenner. Little known awesome fact. Though that isn't in the book. But you can walk around and casually drop into conversation some day, "Yes. Queens' college, I know of a couple of lovely chaps who went there.") to his early years of writing/acting. (so... mostly the 80s) He has a habit in that Stephen Fry sort of way of going off on some sort of tangent on some minor detail and it often becomes verbose and vaguely confession-like. I suppose most memoirs do that but he is at least funny about it and recognizes his own weak points without climbing on the cross. After all someone needs the wood.
The stuff about his relationship with Hugh Laurie is incredibly sweet; especially about when they first got to know one another and began to write together. He spoke of that perfect moment of "falling into collaboration with one another". How it is like love in a way. That natural ease and surprise of the creative process. So let's thank Emma Thompson for that.
I do believe I am enjoying this book.
Let's see... more books lined up but that is always the way. Trying to figure out what to read next and thinking casual thoughts of brownies and pie. But that is always the way with me.
