Cold snap

Dec. 27th, 2008 08:10 pm
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I think last night was the first time this winter that Tucson has had below-freezing temperatures, and today topped out in the mid-40s. That may not sound like much to most of you, but for Tucson it's the sort of cold day that happens only a handful of times a year.

I did three rounds of grocery shopping (Safeway for basic foodstuffs, Trader Joe's for fun foodstuffs, and Safeway again for cleaning supplies) and made a batch of lentil stew. I also walked around the bookshelves looking for potential culls. There's a box from last year's cull still waiting to go, and that might be as much as I can carry on one trip, but that doesn't absolve me from the need to thin out the shelves a bit more. I think I could part with the remaining Babylon 5 books now, and probably the Robin Paige turn-of-the-century "Death at ..." mysteries, the Jane Lindskold "Wolf" books, and maybe the Fionavar Tapestry at long last. (My Kay trajectory is backwards to most people's; I liked Fionavar and was lukewarm about Tigana, which is no longer on my shelves; A Song for Arbonne I abandoned half-way through, with a resolution never to buy anything more by that author. It was beautifully written, but I couldn't stand the subject matter.)

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Date: 2008-12-28 10:55 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] heleninwales.livejournal.com
It was after seeing Guy Gavriel Kay as guest of honour at a convention and then later trying to read his books that I realised that the fact that an author seems like a nice person who can talk in an interesting way about their stories does not necessarily mean I will like their novels. :(

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