books

Currently reading: Trinity by Leon Uris.

A piece of historical fiction - I think - about Ireland in the 1900s. I haven't gotten a specific date from the book yet, but it's about a generation after the potato famine (someone who was a boy then is a grown man burying his father, now), so perhaps right around 1900? Ok then, anyway. It was slow for me to get into, because it was so filled with (1) vernacular, (2) Catholicism, and (3) history. For someone who plays around with the SCA, I am not very much a history person. Luckily londo has been around for the first 12 chapters so that I can stop every few minutes and ask him for clarification. Including, "Wait, is this serious? Were Catholics really treated like this?" I foresee this book being a struggle for me, just in having to wrap my brain around the incredible cruelty of the human race.

Speaking of londo, he was in need of a book to take to the emergency room too (that's why I started mine) and, in spite of the knowledge he had about the series, picked up Robert Jordan's The Eye of the World from me. MUAH. He will now be sucked in!! Good thing I have most of the books to lend him... (And, according to the official website, there should only be a total of 12 or 13 in the final series. However, this doesn't count the prequels. ARGH.) ;)

The problem is that, in watching him read it, now I want to restart that series too. :-/

books

Currently reading: Trinity by Leon Uris.

A piece of historical fiction - I think - about Ireland in the 1900s. I haven't gotten a specific date from the book yet, but it's about a generation after the potato famine (someone who was a boy then is a grown man burying his father, now), so perhaps right around 1900? Ok then, anyway. It was slow for me to get into, because it was so filled with (1) vernacular, (2) Catholicism, and (3) history. For someone who plays around with the SCA, I am not very much a history person. Luckily londo has been around for the first 12 chapters so that I can stop every few minutes and ask him for clarification. Including, "Wait, is this serious? Were Catholics really treated like this?" I foresee this book being a struggle for me, just in having to wrap my brain around the incredible cruelty of the human race.

Speaking of londo, he was in need of a book to take to the emergency room too (that's why I started mine) and, in spite of the knowledge he had about the series, picked up Robert Jordan's The Eye of the World from me. MUAH. He will now be sucked in!! Good thing I have most of the books to lend him... (And, according to the official website, there should only be a total of 12 or 13 in the final series. However, this doesn't count the prequels. ARGH.) ;)

The problem is that, in watching him read it, now I want to restart that series too. :-/

sewing glittery bellydance wear

Yay, I used my free time alone at home to sew up a piece of bellydance costuming I'll need for the show.... decided to make my two-circle skirt out of a really nice sheer-black-with-light-blue-glitter-design fabric. ( Check it out! )

The only problem with this being that glitter got EVERYWHERE. And I mean everywhere. Hee. I'll be finding it in my clothes for the next month, I swear...

Now, to sleep and see if I wake up at 5:30 ready for work, or not.

sewing glittery bellydance wear

Yay, I used my free time alone at home to sew up a piece of bellydance costuming I'll need for the show.... decided to make my two-circle skirt out of a really nice sheer-black-with-light-blue-glitter-design fabric. ( Check it out! )

The only problem with this being that glitter got EVERYWHERE. And I mean everywhere. Hee. I'll be finding it in my clothes for the next month, I swear...

Now, to sleep and see if I wake up at 5:30 ready for work, or not.