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Sep. 3rd, 2007 01:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
arkuatOkay, so I just finished Jo Walton's /Farthing/. If you don't like spoilers, read no further.
Someone is going to have to teach me how to use livejournal cut tags, because I haven't really cared about such things yet.
It's a ghastly ominous ending, and I love it and hug it to my heart. I was warned before I got to that point in the reading that Abby was a Quaker, and I'm glad I was warned, because otherwise sentimentality would have overflowed within me. All I can say is that this is a splendid novel, written for our times, and I am pleased to know that sequels await my attention.
May the Farthingparty have much fun!
Someone is going to have to teach me how to use livejournal cut tags, because I haven't really cared about such things yet.
It's a ghastly ominous ending, and I love it and hug it to my heart. I was warned before I got to that point in the reading that Abby was a Quaker, and I'm glad I was warned, because otherwise sentimentality would have overflowed within me. All I can say is that this is a splendid novel, written for our times, and I am pleased to know that sequels await my attention.
May the Farthingparty have much fun!
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Date: 2007-09-03 06:04 pm (UTC)You can also find out how to italicize book titles. It's really easy, but I was forever either closing them twice or opening them and not closing them.
You can download a client (I have no idea why they call it that) that will allow you to make your post offline with nifty little buttons for lj-cuts, italics, and the silly LJ bobbly thing that turns an LJ name into a link to the person's journal. I use Semagic. That said, a lot of the time I can't be bothered to fire up Semagic when I'm already right in LJ with a "Post to Journal" button staring at me.
I'm glad that being spoiled about the role of the Quaker lady was a goodness.
I haven't any nuanced views of Farthing yet, having read it so recently, but I think it might be going into my "perfect books" list. This is highly idiosyncratic; it means "perfect for me, on its own terms as I see them." It has so much humor and balance and contrast, and it has such a light touch on such very heavy matters, but it doesn't flinch aside from them, either. I admire that greatly.
P.