I should know better

[flemmings]

My android tablet suggests news stories for me, too many of which are about Jordan Peterson or 'insiders at the Palace say the Queen says'. In the absence of congenial time wasting articles, I've taken to reading spoilers for Game of Thrones. Which I've never watched, not having a television or access to whoever is presenting GoT, and wouldn't watch, having heard what a nasty piece of work it is. But reading plot summaries is just as unpleasant as watching the real thing, so I now feel dirty and apocalyptic for no real gain. Current reading-reading is The Death of the Necromancer to have it (re)read, which isn't really a help in shaking the oogies.

TDotN is the book with vanishing text that M read years back. First time through she swears there was an angsty m-m subplot with the hero Nicholas and his self-destructive opium addicted friend, the sorceror Arisilde. Second time through it wasn't there at all. I'm reading to see what I can see.

The cherry tree still looks snow-laden against the grey skies, but the blossoms have half-fallen already and tomorrow's winds and heat will doubtless see the last of them gone. Two doors' down's burgeoning tree (which I should really suggest they trim, from bitter experience, before a branch comes down) is still in full bloom, and if we get a south wind next week may blow some elegantly confused snow into my garden as wll.

Comments

[lebateleur]

The people who watch GoT for the "intricate plot and worldbuilding" are the same sort who read Playboy for the articles.

[melita66]

Drive-by! (from James Davis Nicoll's Reading page)

I've read several editions of TDotN, and don't remember anything between Nicholas and Arisilde. I *think* there might have been a hint between Arisilde and his mentor, the now head (can't remember his name). There's the flashback to Madeline asking Reynard if he and Nicholas had ever been lovers.

[heliopausa.livejournal.com]

What sort of time-wasting article counts as congenial?

That's a fun idea, the book with vanishing text - an e-book? which lures the reader along and then remoulds itself according to whatever clues it picks up from how the reader reads?

Sympathies re: tomorrow's heat. I have one out-of-the-house errand to run today, but apart from that am spending Sunday in front of the fan.