A few minor updates from this weekend:
#32) Read Isaac Asimov's Caves of Steel over the weekend. A good mystery, and much easier to read than I was expecting. I always thought Asimov would be a challenge as a classic sci-fi writer. I'm really not sure where I got that idea from. I definitely want to read more. Yesterday, I picked up a book called Sharp Teeth by an author I'll have to get back to you with the name of. It's a werewolf story about several packs and the scheming and fighting between them and within them, with a city dogcatcher and a police officer caught in the middle. I'm enjoying it, but I'm still a little thrown off by the format. 1) It's third person present narrative (He is, they are, etc) and 2) it's in a poetic format. Like, each paragraph is a stanza. Except it's not a poem. It's like the author was going for the feel of, say, The Odyssey or another ancient epic. It's weird...and it makes the book probably twice as long as it should be page-count-wise. I finished about 200 pages within two hours last night. I could have finished it all but ran out of steam. I'll finish it off tonight. This'll be #38, knocking me down to 12 books left.
#41) So we're buying a house. Yes, we decided on the one we really liked from the update a few days ago. We've looked at it three times with all of our local family. It's a great house, good condition, good neighborhood. We'll be in for an experience once the negotiations start. Maybe this Christmas, we'll be in a house of our own. :)
#92) Finished another game, making 10 done. I decided to go back to the classics and popped Super Mario World into the SNES. I'd never finished any of those classic Marios. I loved Super Mario 3, but the lack of a save feature always caught me. SMW, I never got past world 3. Not sure why. I'll admit I kinda cheated by finding the Star Road, but I beat Bowser fair and square, and on my first try! I'll probably go back later and do the whole game properly, but it was fun to finally get past the stages that have had me stuck forever.
You'd think that Asimov would be very difficult to get through, but he's not. I know when he was young he was taught that you had to write extremely ourple prose in order to write well. He disagreed with that, and he sought to strip all unnecessary grandiosity from his prose, and...that's really why I love his work so much. The clear simplicity of his words actually bring out his genius, because they let the epic scope of his ideas speak for themselves. I really would love to be able to write like that one day. <3 Asimov's stories!
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