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I'm hoping to write every day for a month and see where that gets me. Try to exercise my writing brain, as well as capture the ups and downs and sideways course of my days.
Last night we installed Violet's animal collection in the library display case. It took an hour for her to arrange the animals. We struggled with the classification system a bit. Should be be geographic, type of animal, habitat, how we relate to them? We ended with a mix. Farm Animals, Dinosaurs, Reptiles & Amphibians, Asian & African Animals. It was a very good exercise in curation and classification. It's also an awesome display.
I was so tired when we were done that I went to bed at 10 and could barely wake up at 6:45. Not sure of the source of the tiredness, although I know I was high-strung over the weekend, so perhaps an adrenaline hangover?
I'm so enjoying The Red Tree by Caitlin R. Kiernan![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
greygirlbeast. One thing I like in particular is her scientific and historical knowledge and specificity, even when describing dreams or supernatural events. Here's a passage from p. 145 describing a dream:
Last night we installed Violet's animal collection in the library display case. It took an hour for her to arrange the animals. We struggled with the classification system a bit. Should be be geographic, type of animal, habitat, how we relate to them? We ended with a mix. Farm Animals, Dinosaurs, Reptiles & Amphibians, Asian & African Animals. It was a very good exercise in curation and classification. It's also an awesome display.
I was so tired when we were done that I went to bed at 10 and could barely wake up at 6:45. Not sure of the source of the tiredness, although I know I was high-strung over the weekend, so perhaps an adrenaline hangover?
I'm so enjoying The Red Tree by Caitlin R. Kiernan
greygirlbeast. One thing I like in particular is her scientific and historical knowledge and specificity, even when describing dreams or supernatural events. Here's a passage from p. 145 describing a dream:Behind me, the bludgeoned sky was suddenly light by a flash of lightning so brilliant, so blinding, that it seemed to sear our shadows into the beach, like those photos your see taken after the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. The sand will melt and turn to glass, I thought, waiting and bracing myself for that seven-thousand-degree fireball. But it didn't come -- no atomic pressure wave, no flames, no air superheated by X-rays to instantly vaporize the fragile shells of me and her.
Passages like this serve to ground the reader in reality, in physics and time, so that the extraordinary weirdness doesn't float off into vagaries and mist. The other aspect of Kiernan's work that I find addictive is her literary allusions. Her head is full of many of the same books and poems as mine. It's a familiar landscape to explore, a hand to hold which makes me braver in my reading.
Passages like this serve to ground the reader in reality, in physics and time, so that the extraordinary weirdness doesn't float off into vagaries and mist. The other aspect of Kiernan's work that I find addictive is her literary allusions. Her head is full of many of the same books and poems as mine. It's a familiar landscape to explore, a hand to hold which makes me braver in my reading.
