Oh my gosh, it sounds like you’re getting NH snow! ❄️ We haven’t had that much yet this winter, but there have been years where I have shoveled my car out and ended up shoveling feet above my head 😅
It seems like the northeast has been out of the usual winter the past couple years 😯 We only had one light snow before this and not much cold, but it is pretty typical for winter to kick in from January here really, definitely feeling it. The snow got a chance to melt off this week a bit, but it's been cold cold most of the time, a bit of a warm up, but looking at single digits to teens most of this weekend for temps.
No kidding! The icicles were perhaps not the very worst I've seen, but close. It was absolutely wild, after a couple days in the quiet it was just periodic sounds of them crashing down 😬
I'd definitely be interested in a series review for the Southern Reach series. Interesting comparison of the movie and book. And neat to see all the snow footage, although less neat for you to have had to deal with that!
I just finished the 2nd Southern Reach, so I will definitely keep going and wrap it up in the end. The snow was quite annoying only in that it made things difficult for other people 😂 I mainly got to just simply look at it from inside, the cat food delivery being delayed was the only real inconvenience I had to deal with.
Oh no. I had high hopes for Unconquerable Sun. Bummer it was just meh and you didn't get invested. Thanks for the shout out! Small Rain was such a great read and I hope you enjoy it when you get to it. That second snow actually doubled the amount we got. Around 8-9 inches combined.
Same for me, I really wanted to like Unconquerable Sun, and had heard basically only total raves or total dislike for it so far, but most of the raves were people I have similar taste with, so I was really hopeful. Ah well, on to the next one. That's wild you got so much more snow the 2nd round! Hope you are staying warm and safe, I've seen mixed things if we are getting more this coming friday. Seems like it will warm up a lot then massively freeze again, so really depends on what point the rain happens, could be another very icy/snowy weekend potentially. ❄
Yea, I am not so much a fan of the snow as well! Since I grew up on the west coast, we rarely got huge amounts of snow there, and when I moved here was a big difference that I'm not sure I enjoy - certainly not a fan of the cold here. No snow days as an adult 😒
That's a shame about Nandor Fodor, it looks like a great cast but the messaging would probably bother me too. I'm intrigued about Annihilation though, it's high on my list of sci-fi books to try when I'm back in a sci-fi mood.
Well I have absolutely adored all of Vandermeer's work I've read so far, hopefully whenever you get to it it works for you. It is very weird stuff though! Yep I'm 99% sure Nandor Fordor would really bother you for the same reasons.... Major Spoilers: His assistant very quickly has an experience with the mongoose that to me doesn't really seem too meaningful in any way, and could be easily faked, but this person who has been on these paranormal situations for years is immediately convinced without any real proof just because how she feels about it. Then later mongoose (out of line of sight) says something Nandor's father told him, it couldn't possibly know obviously, and this turns him from a very well reasoned skeptic trying to apply science into someone totally unhinged. He gets fixated on his own emotions rather than facts and the idea of how terrible it is if "this is all there is" (as someone who is happily nihilist, bah!). Gets himself absolutely drunk in the middle of the night and becomes raging violent trying to demolish one of the mongoose's hiding spots to get proof - that could be easily just opened up without damaging it seems like. The mongoose taunts him out of sight when he's locked up after, and he absolutely falls to a blubbering mess begging it for any direct observation, and he kind of gets it personally, but not in a way that he would have accepted prior, not very measurable or repeatable certainly. Somewhat in all of this he has a conversation with someone who lives there but hasn't had any experiences with the mongoose , who is like "well even if it isn't real, it makes everyone happy and you don't seem very happy, so maybe isn't everyone being happy really what's important here?" JUST WHAT?!
@ I’ll definitely be prepared for weirdness when I try Annihilation. I’ve heard a lot of positive stuff about it from people whose taste aligns with mine, so… 🤞 Ohhh wow, yeah Nandor Fodor sounds really “off”. Like you say, the polar opposite of Hogfather in terms of messaging.
Hehe too true I suppose. It's less I don't DNF lightly I'd say, I just usually can find things to like or connect with in MOST books. The point of the book being very military and political with the central conflict being a war, at 200 pages literally not knowing WHY the war is happening or what the sides disagree on, or any of the people involved believe about that... was just too big a lack of connection for me, like that is crazy.
I read a novella by Kate Elliott and had much the same feelings. 🤨 I don't think the Vandermeer series is for me, but I hope to read something by him at some point because he sounds like a great storyteller. Also, 😭😭😭 everyone has deep snow but me!
That is a bummer about the other Elliot novella being a dud from the same issues, I think I remember you read that with your fantasy buddy group and no one liked it much? I'd still been a bit hopeful I would like it, but if it is the same situation I probably won't. Also a bummer because I have a couple of her big chonky fantasy on my shelf to get to as well, so maybe I should be giving a try sooner rather than later to see if it is the same thing and free up some shelf space 😄 For Vandermeer, I think you would absolutely not like Borne, I think you would like the writing but not characters or story of Annihiliation probably, so don't recommend going with either of those. However he has one I have not read, Peculiar Peril, that from what I heard early on falls on the line between MG & YA and they ended up selling it as YA, I think the vibe/plot of that one is the most likely to be your sort of thing if you want to give him a try. You can have all my snow, I don't want it⛄ 😄
I love a good snow story. ☃️
❄ Seems like we might get more this weekend, so I may have even more snow stories 😯
Oh my gosh, it sounds like you’re getting NH snow! ❄️ We haven’t had that much yet this winter, but there have been years where I have shoveled my car out and ended up shoveling feet above my head 😅
It seems like the northeast has been out of the usual winter the past couple years 😯 We only had one light snow before this and not much cold, but it is pretty typical for winter to kick in from January here really, definitely feeling it. The snow got a chance to melt off this week a bit, but it's been cold cold most of the time, a bit of a warm up, but looking at single digits to teens most of this weekend for temps.
That was some impressive icicles in that photo 😱🥶
No kidding! The icicles were perhaps not the very worst I've seen, but close. It was absolutely wild, after a couple days in the quiet it was just periodic sounds of them crashing down 😬
I'd definitely be interested in a series review for the Southern Reach series. Interesting comparison of the movie and book. And neat to see all the snow footage, although less neat for you to have had to deal with that!
I just finished the 2nd Southern Reach, so I will definitely keep going and wrap it up in the end.
The snow was quite annoying only in that it made things difficult for other people 😂 I mainly got to just simply look at it from inside, the cat food delivery being delayed was the only real inconvenience I had to deal with.
Oh no. I had high hopes for Unconquerable Sun. Bummer it was just meh and you didn't get invested. Thanks for the shout out! Small Rain was such a great read and I hope you enjoy it when you get to it. That second snow actually doubled the amount we got. Around 8-9 inches combined.
Same for me, I really wanted to like Unconquerable Sun, and had heard basically only total raves or total dislike for it so far, but most of the raves were people I have similar taste with, so I was really hopeful. Ah well, on to the next one.
That's wild you got so much more snow the 2nd round! Hope you are staying warm and safe, I've seen mixed things if we are getting more this coming friday. Seems like it will warm up a lot then massively freeze again, so really depends on what point the rain happens, could be another very icy/snowy weekend potentially. ❄
@ReadBecca Boo 👎 I hate icy weather. 😂
Ugh...snow! I loved it when I was a kid (and my kids love it), but not a fan as an adult!
Yea, I am not so much a fan of the snow as well! Since I grew up on the west coast, we rarely got huge amounts of snow there, and when I moved here was a big difference that I'm not sure I enjoy - certainly not a fan of the cold here. No snow days as an adult 😒
That's a shame about Nandor Fodor, it looks like a great cast but the messaging would probably bother me too. I'm intrigued about Annihilation though, it's high on my list of sci-fi books to try when I'm back in a sci-fi mood.
Well I have absolutely adored all of Vandermeer's work I've read so far, hopefully whenever you get to it it works for you. It is very weird stuff though!
Yep I'm 99% sure Nandor Fordor would really bother you for the same reasons.... Major Spoilers:
His assistant very quickly has an experience with the mongoose that to me doesn't really seem too meaningful in any way, and could be easily faked, but this person who has been on these paranormal situations for years is immediately convinced without any real proof just because how she feels about it. Then later mongoose (out of line of sight) says something Nandor's father told him, it couldn't possibly know obviously, and this turns him from a very well reasoned skeptic trying to apply science into someone totally unhinged. He gets fixated on his own emotions rather than facts and the idea of how terrible it is if "this is all there is" (as someone who is happily nihilist, bah!). Gets himself absolutely drunk in the middle of the night and becomes raging violent trying to demolish one of the mongoose's hiding spots to get proof - that could be easily just opened up without damaging it seems like. The mongoose taunts him out of sight when he's locked up after, and he absolutely falls to a blubbering mess begging it for any direct observation, and he kind of gets it personally, but not in a way that he would have accepted prior, not very measurable or repeatable certainly. Somewhat in all of this he has a conversation with someone who lives there but hasn't had any experiences with the mongoose , who is like "well even if it isn't real, it makes everyone happy and you don't seem very happy, so maybe isn't everyone being happy really what's important here?"
JUST WHAT?!
@ I’ll definitely be prepared for weirdness when I try Annihilation. I’ve heard a lot of positive stuff about it from people whose taste aligns with mine, so… 🤞
Ohhh wow, yeah Nandor Fodor sounds really “off”. Like you say, the polar opposite of Hogfather in terms of messaging.
Unconquerable sun must of been bad if you DNF, I know you don’t do it lightly. Happy your voice lasted and stay warm
Hehe too true I suppose. It's less I don't DNF lightly I'd say, I just usually can find things to like or connect with in MOST books. The point of the book being very military and political with the central conflict being a war, at 200 pages literally not knowing WHY the war is happening or what the sides disagree on, or any of the people involved believe about that... was just too big a lack of connection for me, like that is crazy.
I read a novella by Kate Elliott and had much the same feelings. 🤨
I don't think the Vandermeer series is for me, but I hope to read something by him at some point because he sounds like a great storyteller.
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😭😭😭 everyone has deep snow but me!
That is a bummer about the other Elliot novella being a dud from the same issues, I think I remember you read that with your fantasy buddy group and no one liked it much? I'd still been a bit hopeful I would like it, but if it is the same situation I probably won't. Also a bummer because I have a couple of her big chonky fantasy on my shelf to get to as well, so maybe I should be giving a try sooner rather than later to see if it is the same thing and free up some shelf space 😄
For Vandermeer, I think you would absolutely not like Borne, I think you would like the writing but not characters or story of Annihiliation probably, so don't recommend going with either of those. However he has one I have not read, Peculiar Peril, that from what I heard early on falls on the line between MG & YA and they ended up selling it as YA, I think the vibe/plot of that one is the most likely to be your sort of thing if you want to give him a try.
You can have all my snow, I don't want it⛄ 😄
@ the reason we read the novella was because one of the ladies had read her fantasy series and loved it… so… don’t be too hasty😂❣️
@ Ah that is helpful to know, I will give it a fair shot either way.