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Jul. 29th, 2010 03:02 pmThing 1: So, Intercon people, what's up with the game bid decision making? The decisions for the July 1st deadline were supposed to be out by the 14th. They're not out yet. Mind, this is hardly an emergency, but when Lily doesn't know something, the curiosity eats away at her.
Thing 2: I'm currently reading Amanda Downing's The Drowning City, which came highly recommended. There's a lot the author is doing right, from the detailed setting, to the major protagonists all being female and active, to the vast majority of the characters not being white. Unfortunately, Downing split her story between three protagonists, effectively telling three different stories. This is a risk because each of these stories has to pass the reader's 'give-a-shit-meter' individually. Roughly a hundred pages in, the only protagonist who affects me on any sort of emotional level is Xinai. What she's going through is personal and painful for her, and so I care. Issylt is pretty cool, but her mission isn't personal to her, which makes her sections drag a bit, unless something critical is going on. So far, Zhirin mostly annoys me with her ingenue-ness. One out of three ain't good, people. This book has so much promise, I keep forcing myself to read further, but unless the focus is on Xinai, I have to keep forcing myself. Oi.
Thing 3: That's two days of unabated migraine now. Do not want!
Thing 2: I'm currently reading Amanda Downing's The Drowning City, which came highly recommended. There's a lot the author is doing right, from the detailed setting, to the major protagonists all being female and active, to the vast majority of the characters not being white. Unfortunately, Downing split her story between three protagonists, effectively telling three different stories. This is a risk because each of these stories has to pass the reader's 'give-a-shit-meter' individually. Roughly a hundred pages in, the only protagonist who affects me on any sort of emotional level is Xinai. What she's going through is personal and painful for her, and so I care. Issylt is pretty cool, but her mission isn't personal to her, which makes her sections drag a bit, unless something critical is going on. So far, Zhirin mostly annoys me with her ingenue-ness. One out of three ain't good, people. This book has so much promise, I keep forcing myself to read further, but unless the focus is on Xinai, I have to keep forcing myself. Oi.
Thing 3: That's two days of unabated migraine now. Do not want!
