Jul. 17th, 2008

nishatalitha: image: lots of ladybirds crawling up fencepost.  white rope is wrapped twice around top of fencepost (Fantastical Chess)
I have been rereading The Belgariad and The Mallorean at the rate of approximately a book a day. I am now up to The Seeress of Kell and quite glad about this - I'm getting quite tired of them.

Still thinking about the characters I like and dislike and a bit about why. At times I almost like Polgara, other times I continue to dislike her. More and more I'm thinking that it's the young (or seeming young) women that Eddings writes that is what I dislike - I mostly like Queen Poreen of Drasnia, for example. Ce'Nedra, on the other hand, I can't stand. When I was 15, this was in part because she has red hair (I have red hair, it's not that exotic and it's more trouble than it's worth sometimes; little old ladies in supermarkets and river paths, bah!), but as I get older there are far more elements of not being able to sympathise with her at all.

Seriously, remove the names, the hair colour, and the single obvious character traits (liking for gold/spying/knives/cooking) and you wouldn't be able to tell any of them apart. And I almost include Polgara in this category. Compared to Ce'Nedra, I positively like Polgara!

On the other hand, a book I did like Havemercy - spoilers, long and rambly )

Autumn progress slowly. She has some hair and for a while her face looked like a skull until I stitched in her cheecks and lips. Now it looks like a pink blob. It will look like this for a long time - I plan to do the backstitching just before I do the beading, which will be last.

[livejournal.com profile] bl9_knt and [livejournal.com profile] purplesparkler liked the chessboard. I still have hold of it, however - even though I finished it in April, I still failed at getting it framed in time. I now have fifteen months to do so. I would make a slightly more urgent effort to do it this year, but where would I put it until then? It's pretty enough that if I have it framed I'm going to want to have it out in view, rather than stored away somewhere.

[livejournal.com profile] fraser_by_proxy was in town for some of this week for his birthday and a group of us gathered at Sweet Mother's Kitchen, one of the few mexican restaurants in Wellington. Food was good, milkshakes were great and huge, key lime pie was... interesting. It was good to see him again. Auckland and studying medicine seems to suit him.

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