potentialities

What I've been reading

I read Dash and Lily's Book of Dares, one of David Levithan's books cowritten with Rachel Cohn. It was fun, but man, they claim that their process involves tag team writing with no planning beforehand and it really does feel WIP-y.

I read The Gospel of Loki, which is a telling of Norse mythology from Loki's perspective, with some fun magical worldbuilding and lots of breezy anachronistic narration. It is marketed as Joanne Harris's first "adult" fantasy novel, but it actually feels markedly less complex than her Loki-ful middle grade fantasy, Runemarks, which is pretty much perfect. It also apparently has a sequel that my library doesn't have, and which apparently many people are disappointed with. But it was fun, and good original-flavor!Loki stories are hard to come by.

I read The Thousand Dollar Tan Line, a Veronica Mars book picking up just after the movie that Rob Thomas co-wrote. I'm actually surprised that he never tried a novel continuation between when the show was canceled and the movie was kickstarted, or maybe he did and it just didn't get anywhere, leaving the way clear to save all the good stuff for the movie. The book is nothing super-special, but it's a solidly enjoyable Veronica Mars story, and apparently there are going to be more of them, so that could be fun.

Apparently, any fools who were foolhardy enough to show up for work at 8:00 this morning got told at 8:30 that the library system was closing at 11:00, which is ridiculous.

I opted not to risk getting stranded at my place of employment with only my coworkers and vending machine food for conversation and entertainment, not necessarily respectively. Instead, we stayed in, ate ice cream with crushed Thin Mints stirred in, and watched the last sixteen episodes of season two of Veronica Mars.

My mom turns out to be a die-hard Veronica/Logan shipper, which amuses me no end. (It is my third-favorite Veronica ship and my second favorite Logan ship, but otherwise we are basically in accord.)

The combination of fine, powdery snow and brutal-looking winds has left our yard looking like some kind of crazy snow desert. There are thin spots where grass is poking through, and there are elaborate systems of dunes, some of which look like they would come up to my waist at their points of highest elevation.

Fortunately, my employers have gotten a little more proactive and closed completely for tomorrow. Maybe we'll watch season three!

My mom wanted something to watch during those agonizing periods of time, sometimes amounting to more than one full day, in between new episodes of the television shows that we watch together (which are presently: Castle, White Collar, 30 Rock and The Office, and on hiatus: Psych, Burn Notice, and Doctor Who. You would never guess that for years, our family television was kept in a locked cabinet and, before she started watching Alias with me on DVD, the last show she seriously followed was Murphy Brown), and Netflix suggested Veronica Mars to us.

Well. That was maybe like a week ago. We just today watched the last seven episodes of season one and then the first episode of season two for good measure.

Past and present flisters who were also VMars fans, I am very impressed by how thoroughly you did not spoil me. There should be trophies. The only thing I would consider myself remotely spoiled for was ( spoilers-cut, natch. )

I'm not sure my mom won't want to watch all of season two tomorrow. She's not big on doing things by half-measures.