Team Garden
Apr. 18th, 2021 02:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dolorosa_12I've spent a lot of today in the garden. Matthias and I have now filled two out of the four vegetable patches — with seeds for parnsips, beetroot, and romanesco cauliflower. The other two beds will be seeded in May with peas, butternut pumpkin, and zucchini. I've also transferred a lot of the windowsill seedlings into the outdoor container garden.
The whole place is in full bloom.
I've finished up one book this weekend so far — Seven Devils, a feminist space opera by Laura Lam and Elizabeth May. The two authors describe it as being like 'Fury Road in space,' although it felt more Firefly-esque from my perspective. It was a fun, solid book with a group of found family resistance fighters trying to overthrow an evil empire, but it was enjoyable rather than groundbreaking.
On to the book meme, which asks for:
18. A book that went after its premise like an explosion
From one jointly-authored book to another: This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. I like both authors separately, and their first work together — a f/f epistolary time-travelling spy novella, told in lush (one might say lurid or purple) prose — is a delight. The novella seems to be a bit of a divisive one — enjoyment seems to depend on whether you find their exuberant use of language to be beautiful or overwhelming, but for me it really works.
El-Mohtar describes it as Florence + the Machine’s LUNGS album if you assume (IMO correctly) that all the songs are sung to women, which definitely works for me. When I reviewed the book several years ago I described it as a love letter, told in love letters, to the notion of the letter itself, and I think that's still what I feel about it.
19. A book that started a pilgrimage
20. A frigid ice bath of a book
21. A book written into your psyche
22. A warm blanket of a book
23. A book that made you bleed
24. A book that asked a question you've never had an answer to
25. A book that answered a question you never asked
26. A book you recommend but cannot love
27. A book you love but cannot recommend
28. A book you adore that people are surprised by
29. A book that led you home
30. A book you detest that people are surprised by
The whole place is in full bloom.
I've finished up one book this weekend so far — Seven Devils, a feminist space opera by Laura Lam and Elizabeth May. The two authors describe it as being like 'Fury Road in space,' although it felt more Firefly-esque from my perspective. It was a fun, solid book with a group of found family resistance fighters trying to overthrow an evil empire, but it was enjoyable rather than groundbreaking.
On to the book meme, which asks for:
18. A book that went after its premise like an explosion
From one jointly-authored book to another: This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. I like both authors separately, and their first work together — a f/f epistolary time-travelling spy novella, told in lush (one might say lurid or purple) prose — is a delight. The novella seems to be a bit of a divisive one — enjoyment seems to depend on whether you find their exuberant use of language to be beautiful or overwhelming, but for me it really works.
El-Mohtar describes it as Florence + the Machine’s LUNGS album if you assume (IMO correctly) that all the songs are sung to women, which definitely works for me. When I reviewed the book several years ago I described it as a love letter, told in love letters, to the notion of the letter itself, and I think that's still what I feel about it.
19. A book that started a pilgrimage
20. A frigid ice bath of a book
21. A book written into your psyche
22. A warm blanket of a book
23. A book that made you bleed
24. A book that asked a question you've never had an answer to
25. A book that answered a question you never asked
26. A book you recommend but cannot love
27. A book you love but cannot recommend
28. A book you adore that people are surprised by
29. A book that led you home
30. A book you detest that people are surprised by