things I would post about in more detail if I weren't too tired

[ricardienne]

-rehearsing student pieces, including one by the conductor's hyperactive and unnaturally talented 8-year old son. Who has perfect pitch, and stopped the run-through to announce loudly to the flute player that "it's an a-sharp".

-Tam Lin (Pamela Dean): I feel like I should have enjoyed it more than I did. Which I think was because I wasn't convinced by the elfland business. Probably I should reread Fire and Hemlock, and then appreciate how coherent Dean is.

-Kathryn Reiss's lastest YA novel. It creeped me out a lot, but all of the things that were bothering me in the beginning (some weirdly flat/stereotyped characters, mainly) were fixed by the end.

-weird dreams involving fleeing across the desert and hiding under carpets, being a slave in a villa urbana and N. from Latin being indicted for murder.

Comments

[yond-cassius.livejournal.com]

you've read Fire and Hemlock? Amazing book. Those dreams do indeed sound weird.

[ricardienne.livejournal.com]

I think I've read Fire and Hemlock twice. And at one time I did understand the ending. Alas, not anymore.

[yond-cassius.livejournal.com]

I sort of understand the ending. I almost managed to explain it to my Dad the other night, but only almost. One of the great things about recommending the book to people is the inevitable conversation you have about the ending.