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They're gone for the weekend!!
Jun. 6th, 2008 05:12 pmThe construction guys, that is. They all got off around 3pm and are gone. One great thing about this country is that when people work, they work, but when they're done, there's no lingering around. The average work week is 38 hours. They've been going from 7am-5pm, so they all cut out early today. My ears feel so much better!!! Of course, they'll be back on Monday. But it's nice to get a rest.
Still gelling on the revision. Listening to music. Walking around. Even--reading. I picked up a book called Remake (Unique in the original British) by Alison Allen-Gray yesterday and read it all in one sitting. Not bad for German! It was a futuristic thriller (the MC is a clone). I find what I actually end up finishing in German isn't always my usual taste in English. The easiest things for me to read in another language are contemporary (or near-contemporary) books that either take place in an American, British, or German setting, ie, something I've already got a grasp on. The very hardest is historical fantasy set in a country other than those (Chinese historical fantasy is a bit beyond me at this point). Or a book heavy on, say, nautical terms. There's a series about the 17th-century Dutch tulip industry that also heavily features ships, and I just can't make headway in German. I don't know what the terms mean in my own language, there's no way I can wade through them in German! Anyhow, I enjoyed Remake. It had just enough description and none extra, it had a sympathetic MC, and it moved. I've noticed these books seem to be more "boy books" as well. Maybe boys read everything like a second language??
A song for my WIP: Pet Shop Boys, "Go West" (My MC Andy thinks that he should do that because he believes somehow that it will "be peaceful there. Ha!)
A couple songs that help me focus on my revision novel for some reason (the words have little to do with my book, but they all feed in somehow):
Jordan Bluth's recording of "Come Thou Fount"
Paolo Meneguzzi's Era Stupendo (I would have voted for it in Eurovision 2008, but it didn't make the finals--probably because it's um, EXCEEDINGLY similar to a song by Swedish singer Amy Diamond--oops)
Morten Lauridsen's O Nata Lux, from Lux Aeterna
The soundtrack to Return of the King from LOTR
I hope you're all having a lovely Friday, that it is neither too hot nor too cold, that you get requests for more in the mail today, and that you don't have tornadoes!
Still gelling on the revision. Listening to music. Walking around. Even--reading. I picked up a book called Remake (Unique in the original British) by Alison Allen-Gray yesterday and read it all in one sitting. Not bad for German! It was a futuristic thriller (the MC is a clone). I find what I actually end up finishing in German isn't always my usual taste in English. The easiest things for me to read in another language are contemporary (or near-contemporary) books that either take place in an American, British, or German setting, ie, something I've already got a grasp on. The very hardest is historical fantasy set in a country other than those (Chinese historical fantasy is a bit beyond me at this point). Or a book heavy on, say, nautical terms. There's a series about the 17th-century Dutch tulip industry that also heavily features ships, and I just can't make headway in German. I don't know what the terms mean in my own language, there's no way I can wade through them in German! Anyhow, I enjoyed Remake. It had just enough description and none extra, it had a sympathetic MC, and it moved. I've noticed these books seem to be more "boy books" as well. Maybe boys read everything like a second language??
A song for my WIP: Pet Shop Boys, "Go West" (My MC Andy thinks that he should do that because he believes somehow that it will "be peaceful there. Ha!)
A couple songs that help me focus on my revision novel for some reason (the words have little to do with my book, but they all feed in somehow):
Jordan Bluth's recording of "Come Thou Fount"
Paolo Meneguzzi's Era Stupendo (I would have voted for it in Eurovision 2008, but it didn't make the finals--probably because it's um, EXCEEDINGLY similar to a song by Swedish singer Amy Diamond--oops)
Morten Lauridsen's O Nata Lux, from Lux Aeterna
The soundtrack to Return of the King from LOTR
I hope you're all having a lovely Friday, that it is neither too hot nor too cold, that you get requests for more in the mail today, and that you don't have tornadoes!
