Language in colour
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nishatalitha1. Comment on this post.
2. I will give you a letter.
3. Think of 5 fictional characters and post their names and your comments on these characters in your LJ.
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kikibug13 gave me
Karal - the priest from Mercedes Lackey's Storm Winds trilogy. Karal is one of my favourite Lackey characters. He's ordinary, nice and sensible, not giving to the extreme emotions of many of Lackey's characters and that's one of the neat things about him.
Kieran Trevade from The God Eaters by Jesse Hajicek. He's the all around irritable gunslinging killing with a thought bad guy with a heart of gold for the right man.
Keladry of Mindelan from Tamora Pierce's Protector of the Small quartet. Kel is the first woman in hundreds of years in Tortall to openly become a woman knight. Only she has to do it without the support of Alanna the Lioness, her hero, in case there is cheating somehow. Instead, Kel makes friends with some of the other boys in her year group and grows in maturity over the books.
Katara from Avatar: The Last Airbender one of two siblings from a Southern Water Tribe, Katara is a waterbender and the mother figure of the quest group. She's stubborn and determined to succeed at waterbending. Seems a bit Mary-Sueish in the series at times, but mostly I like her.
Kenren from Kazuya Minekura's Saiyuki, both anime and manga, based off The Journey West, because how can you resist the mild-mannered yet deadly marshall of Heaven's armies who somehow gets away with wearing a lab coat and glasses instead of the actual army uniform, who also smokes like a chimney and can never find anything in his office or quarters due to the sheer number of books he has piled everywhere. And then there's the fanfiction.
Coming up with five characters was much more challenging than I expected - mostly because I had trouble thinking of characters I like whose names begin with K. I'm sure I would have had exactly the same problem with any other letter, though. I think I put down every single character I thought of - in that order, too.
I've been rereading The Curse of Chalion again over the last couple of days. I limit myself to reading it about twice or four times a year now, and I think it's been about six months since I last read it. While I hadn't forgotten how much I enjoy it, at the same time, I delighted in sinking into the glorious use of language and images.
This time, it was the visual images that I noticed the most. While I think it's too internal a book to be filmed at all well, Bujold's descriptions and use of language make it a very visually appealing book. Besides, I've read or participated in a few casting discussions since I last read it, and while I read it, I got a lot of almost movie quality images in my head, not any action scenes, but just about all of the small group scenes; this time I could see detail, not just outline; full faces, not just sketch figures. I was paying attention to the use of colour, so vividly present in the Five Gods books anyway, texture and sound; poetry echoes and thunders.
There are reasons this book has been top of my favourite books list since it was published seven years ago and one of them is that I can still get new things out of it on the twenty plus read through.
Time to go to bed now; I think the changeover to daylight savings has affected me more than I thought - I'm exhausted.
2. I will give you a letter.
3. Think of 5 fictional characters and post their names and your comments on these characters in your LJ.
kikibug13 gave me Karal - the priest from Mercedes Lackey's Storm Winds trilogy. Karal is one of my favourite Lackey characters. He's ordinary, nice and sensible, not giving to the extreme emotions of many of Lackey's characters and that's one of the neat things about him.
Kieran Trevade from The God Eaters by Jesse Hajicek. He's the all around irritable gunslinging killing with a thought bad guy with a heart of gold for the right man.
Keladry of Mindelan from Tamora Pierce's Protector of the Small quartet. Kel is the first woman in hundreds of years in Tortall to openly become a woman knight. Only she has to do it without the support of Alanna the Lioness, her hero, in case there is cheating somehow. Instead, Kel makes friends with some of the other boys in her year group and grows in maturity over the books.
Katara from Avatar: The Last Airbender one of two siblings from a Southern Water Tribe, Katara is a waterbender and the mother figure of the quest group. She's stubborn and determined to succeed at waterbending. Seems a bit Mary-Sueish in the series at times, but mostly I like her.
Kenren from Kazuya Minekura's Saiyuki, both anime and manga, based off The Journey West, because how can you resist the mild-mannered yet deadly marshall of Heaven's armies who somehow gets away with wearing a lab coat and glasses instead of the actual army uniform, who also smokes like a chimney and can never find anything in his office or quarters due to the sheer number of books he has piled everywhere. And then there's the fanfiction.
Coming up with five characters was much more challenging than I expected - mostly because I had trouble thinking of characters I like whose names begin with K. I'm sure I would have had exactly the same problem with any other letter, though. I think I put down every single character I thought of - in that order, too.
I've been rereading The Curse of Chalion again over the last couple of days. I limit myself to reading it about twice or four times a year now, and I think it's been about six months since I last read it. While I hadn't forgotten how much I enjoy it, at the same time, I delighted in sinking into the glorious use of language and images.
This time, it was the visual images that I noticed the most. While I think it's too internal a book to be filmed at all well, Bujold's descriptions and use of language make it a very visually appealing book. Besides, I've read or participated in a few casting discussions since I last read it, and while I read it, I got a lot of almost movie quality images in my head, not any action scenes, but just about all of the small group scenes; this time I could see detail, not just outline; full faces, not just sketch figures. I was paying attention to the use of colour, so vividly present in the Five Gods books anyway, texture and sound; poetry echoes and thunders.
There are reasons this book has been top of my favourite books list since it was published seven years ago and one of them is that I can still get new things out of it on the twenty plus read through.
Time to go to bed now; I think the changeover to daylight savings has affected me more than I thought - I'm exhausted.