Sooop of the evening

[flemmings]

Soup of a day: too muggy, too warm, too wet. The skies have finally gone from low grey ceiling to discrete grey and white clouds, and the sun slants through to make all the trees out back bronzey-gold. But the temps and the pressure still seem set on inciting a headache of some kind. Feels like hurricane weather, actually.

There are no terrycloth robes to be found. Saleswoman at Pennington's opined that most people don't want to pay the extra and so everyone uses microfibre instead. Microfibre keeps you warm, I will allow, but it certainly doesn't wick up the wet after a bath and it deposits stuff in the water supply. My current terry robe is going on ten years and was come-by-chance at Winners, after all the gentlemen's haberdashers told me that no one had terrycloth. (Maybe I don't shop in the right places. They can be had online from Hudson's Bay. Except that I like to see what they mean by L and XL.)

What a good thing I didn't read the cover of The Angelic Avengers. Most egregious spoiler since The Magus ('There is no Julie.') Like that it consists of a passage from late in the novel, and unlike that the passage doesn't spoil the action, just describes a character walking into the room. But the line above it? 'Portrait of a villain.' Why yes, thanks for relieving you readers of any uncertainty they might have had through half the book's length as to what was what.

Certainly it's more melodrama than Dinesen Gothic, but that's fine. The types at Goodreads were trying to figure what it satirises and why. Victorian melodrama, say they, which makes me wonder what melodramas they've read. I... don't feel it's a satire at all. It's a melodrama pure and simple, which allowed Dinesen to get something off her chest.

Comments

[incandescens]

Should I add The Angelic Avengers to my to-read list? It does sound intriguing.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Mhhh- let's say, it's not prime Dinesen. As a gothic, it does slide into the melodramatic, and it probably invokes a bunch of tropes I missed. It reminded me here and there of long ago works in my past- The Confessions of a Justified Sinner, The Wanderer, and the paintings of Caspar David Friedrich. So it's invoking a spirit quite different East Lynne or Northanger Abbey or even Jane Eyre.

Anyway, you read fast. It shouldn't take you more than an hour or so. ^_^

[incandescens]

I'll mark it on my to-read queue, somewhere in the middle. Thanks. ;)

[chomiji]

Shoplady can think what she likes, but a quick check of Macy's and two of my usual online merchants, L.L. Bean and Lands End, show that yes, there are women's terrycloth robes to be had. In fact, I personally have not seen microfiber ones (unless she means what I call fleece).

Woman Within, which is cheaper, has both short and long terry robes in a wide range of sizes and colors, but I can't vouch for the quality.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

I don't buy women's. ^_^ My s-i-l keeps giving me women's XL loungewear for Christmas, which I could *just* fit into twenty pounds ago. Men's all the way.

Yes, it seems there's a lot online, but I want to see how big and how thick and consequently, how heavy, the robes are. For that I need bricks and mortar.

I think microfibre is fleece, but it feels... different? Silkier in general.

[i-am-zan.livejournal.com]

Sadly it is this here, with the temperatures to match! ;_;

Even the thunderstorm this morning did not dispel the mugginess. So far it is holding on to a cool-ish (by our standards) temperature, but the humidity is high and it is still only 8-thirty or so in the morning.

I hear you on the terrycloth... I hate that microfiber stuff it just does not dry and everything sticks.

Hope you find some eventually.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Oh, the mug. We have it now, doubled, with heat added for tomorrow (Canadian definitions of heat, yes) and then back to civilized teen highs.

Thank you. It seems there's stuff available online if not instore.