Week of April 23-29

[mrissa]

One rejection. Slow week. Still waiting on some hold requests and revision requests. Part of the business, I guess.

Breakfast went well -- everything was ready in time -- and now I have to cook up some chocolate frosting and make a batch of cornbread, and that's about it for the "have to" category yet today. I would like to get a few things put in the frames we already have for them and hung before the in-laws get here, but I feel confident that they will survive if I don't. It's not that there's nothing to do, it's that there's nothing else I have to do.

Enthusiasm from people at Minicon tipped me over into buying Garth Nix's Mister Monday, and I'm glad I did. It followed Throne of Jade better than most books could: I was able to enjoy Mister Monday for itself and not fuss about it not being Black Powder War (which, for the two of you not following the entirely deserved uproar about naominovik's books, is not available yet). I don't remember who was enthusiastic about Mister Monday and its sequels, except that it was people in the crowd near the door on Sunday -- zwol, madmanatw, oath_of_feanor, eileenlufkin? I'm almost sure it was neither pameladean nor mgs, but it may well have been one of the people who remain ljless. Anyway, I've gone and added Grim Tuesday to my wishlist, so that can be considered a successful book nudge.

I'm just about to start another book by someone on the friendslist, but I haven't even read the first page, so I can't say how it'll go yet. I'm optimistic, though, or I wouldn't have bought it in the first place.

Comments

[timprov.livejournal.com]

It would be easier not to be one of those two if we had our own copy of the first book.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

You now know that we do, but I just want to make it clear to the rest of the Minneapolis book-borrowing public.

[songwind.livejournal.com]

Everyone here in Burnsville is pretty much on the Mr Monday bandwagon as well.

[zwol.livejournal.com]

I'm certainly on the Mister Monday (and the Garth Nix in general) bandwagon, but it's likely to have been Shweta or Nathaniel who brought them up.

[(Anonymous)]

Dunno if it was me, but I've certainly been, ahem, guilty of that recommendation in the past.

Glad to hear you liked it, whether I can take the credit or not ;-)

(If you hurry, you can catch up with the rest of us moaning and aching for him to finish the series! Hooray!)

-- Nathaniel

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Gosh, thanks, lucky me! (I never actually have the patience to deliberately wait until a series is finished to start reading it, but I threaten sometimes.)

[lutin.livejournal.com]

Or frequently.

Hi, I'm another of Shweta-Thaniel-Zwol-Madmanatw-Oathoffeanor's friends.
You did not meet there because my cousins would have killed me if I'd missed
Easter after I'd just missed Christmas.

So! Hi. High five!, you wrote another book!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Hi, and thanks!

I understand about Minicon and Easter. Things will be much easier for me in that regard now that my parents have moved to the Mpls area: I can have a late Easter dinner with them after I've gone home from the con, and all will be well.