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Well I got up at about 6ish in order to drive my mom to the doc to get a colonoscopy. I took a book, despite how exhausted I was (my mom even let me drive the Acura, woot!) and read a good portion of it while waiting. The book being something I bought a while ago, Three Days to Never by Tim Powers. Which so far is totally awesome. Multiple points of view, for one thing, which I'm a fan of, time travel and reality bending. Plus it has the BEST book jacket description of any book I've ever seen. I really have to type it here for you all to get a sense of the incredibleness of the jacket description:
"When twelve-year-old Daphne Marrity takes a videotape labeled Pee-wee's Big Adventure from her grandmother's house, neither she nor her college-professor father, Frank Marrity, has any idea that the theft has drawn the attention of both the Israeli Secret Service and an ancient European cabal of occultists--or that within hours they'll be visited by her long-lost grandfather, who is also desperate to get that tape.
And when Daphne's teddy bear is stolen, a blind assassin nearly kills Frank, and a phantom begins to speak to her from a switched-off television set, Daphne and her father find themselves caught in the middle of a murderous power struggle that originated long ago in Israel and Germany but now crashes through Los Angeles and out to the Mojave Desert. To survive, they must quickly learn the rules of a dangerous magical chess game and use all their cleverness and courage--as well as their love and loyalty to each other--to escape a fate more profound than death."
That is seriously the most awesome description I've ever read, simply because it sounds so over-the-top and ridiculous. It was the whole reason I picked up the book. It's not as "XOMG LIEK WOAH!" as the jacket description so far--it's better. Love it.
In other news, some kid drove drunk the other day and crashed through the outer wall of the DMV, killing his teenage passenger who, incidentally, went to my high school. My brother even knew him, though he says he was an asshole.
B&N still hasn't contacted me about The Virtu. They'd better get on that soon.
So yesterday, the fam and I minus my brother went to Ano Nuevo to see elephant seals. It was awesome; we hiked over sand dunes and saw a whole bunch of them. Those things are huge. There were some juveniles and pups too--very cute. The coastline was gorgeous in and of itself, despite a lot of fog. Also, in the grass outside the visitor center, we watched a pocket gopher digging a hole while we waited for the tour of the dunes to start. It was adorable; all we saw was this little fuzzy head popping up and down in his hole.
After that we went to lunch at this incredible restaurant that had the best soup I've ever had in my life (artichoke soup) and also the best pie I've ever eaten in my life. Ollalieberry. Don't ask me what an ollalieberry is. I thought of Fynn from Pie-IX while I ate it. I think he would have been impressed.
Not much else to mention, except that I'm almost finished with Okami, and that I have a 1 lb. box of See's Candy (fuck yes).
"When twelve-year-old Daphne Marrity takes a videotape labeled Pee-wee's Big Adventure from her grandmother's house, neither she nor her college-professor father, Frank Marrity, has any idea that the theft has drawn the attention of both the Israeli Secret Service and an ancient European cabal of occultists--or that within hours they'll be visited by her long-lost grandfather, who is also desperate to get that tape.
And when Daphne's teddy bear is stolen, a blind assassin nearly kills Frank, and a phantom begins to speak to her from a switched-off television set, Daphne and her father find themselves caught in the middle of a murderous power struggle that originated long ago in Israel and Germany but now crashes through Los Angeles and out to the Mojave Desert. To survive, they must quickly learn the rules of a dangerous magical chess game and use all their cleverness and courage--as well as their love and loyalty to each other--to escape a fate more profound than death."
That is seriously the most awesome description I've ever read, simply because it sounds so over-the-top and ridiculous. It was the whole reason I picked up the book. It's not as "XOMG LIEK WOAH!" as the jacket description so far--it's better. Love it.
In other news, some kid drove drunk the other day and crashed through the outer wall of the DMV, killing his teenage passenger who, incidentally, went to my high school. My brother even knew him, though he says he was an asshole.
B&N still hasn't contacted me about The Virtu. They'd better get on that soon.
So yesterday, the fam and I minus my brother went to Ano Nuevo to see elephant seals. It was awesome; we hiked over sand dunes and saw a whole bunch of them. Those things are huge. There were some juveniles and pups too--very cute. The coastline was gorgeous in and of itself, despite a lot of fog. Also, in the grass outside the visitor center, we watched a pocket gopher digging a hole while we waited for the tour of the dunes to start. It was adorable; all we saw was this little fuzzy head popping up and down in his hole.
After that we went to lunch at this incredible restaurant that had the best soup I've ever had in my life (artichoke soup) and also the best pie I've ever eaten in my life. Ollalieberry. Don't ask me what an ollalieberry is. I thought of Fynn from Pie-IX while I ate it. I think he would have been impressed.
Not much else to mention, except that I'm almost finished with Okami, and that I have a 1 lb. box of See's Candy (fuck yes).
