Joyeaux Annee

[glenatron]

Happy New Year to one and all. I hope everyone enjoyed whatever type of celebration they took part in and is ready to face the new year as a brand new start. We certainly enjoyed visiting Cardiff and meeting up with many of our Acrewdemic friends and various passersby and droppers in even if we did end up driving home at five A.M. in the interests of finding our own comfy bed at home.

My new years resolutions include a wholehearted decision to become a better ninja and a half-hearted one to eat less lard and maybe think about doing some fitness type things.

Yesterday morning I finally finished reading all of the Dorothy Dunnett Niccolo stories, of which there are eight. I have mentioned them before but I will just reiterate having finally reached the conclusion of the series that they are the among the most brilliant, intelligent and exciting books I have read. To sustain the level of research and the sheer storytelling pace that is maintained across the whole series is an extraordinary achievement in itself. Mostly I read a lot of fantasy and a bit of sci-fi but these stories totally captured my imagination and after the six months it has taken me to read through them all ( with a few breaks to read other things in between ) I now have that slightly empty feeling that you get after finishing reading a true classic where you wonder what could possibly fill that space. If you enjoy stories full of cunning and intrigue I would suggest finding a copy of Niccolo Rising and allowing yourself to be swept away to the colourful and dangerous world of 15th century Europe. You will be doing yourself a great favour.

Comments

[doveston.livejournal.com]

the way of the ninja takes time and hard work, you will need to give up your frivolous activities of reading and husbandry in order to learn stealth and stunning fist....many fail, like kittens in a sack you will struggle. but succeed and then .... im not sure what happens then I failed with the sack. But I hear its pretty dooming.


I think there were turtles involved?

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

I've heard that often there are turtles involved but not in my case- much as someone in the dark space of history built up a secret society among masons and stoneworkers, it seems that all the master ninjas I know are builders.

I've been struggling around in sacks for the last four years or so and I really need to be struggling a little harder if I'm going to find my way out...