Hope's the child of what luck brings

[sovay]

I left the house this afternoon with my book of M.R. James, which I figured I would re-read on the buses. (I need the collected works.)

I returned with the prescription I had meant to pick up from the Somerville pharmacy, the jeans and Turing shirt I opportunistically retrieved from derspatchel's, and a copy of J.-H. Rosny aîné's Three Science Fiction Novellas: From Prehistory to the End of Mankind (2012) trans. Danièle Chatelain and George Slusser and half a dozen peaches I had no idea rushthatspeaks was going to send me home with. I would have included the ridiculously local root beer from Dave's Fresh Pasta, but I left it with Rob. I have already read Rosny aîné's "Un autre monde"—it's brilliant—and am about to curl up in bed with the rest of the book.

This is a great improvement on a day that began with me feeling about ready to give up on having a body at all.

Comments

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry for how the day began for you, but glad for the great improvement.

I hope you enjoy the rest of the book as well.

[sovay]

I hope you enjoy the rest of the book as well.

Oh, yes. I want more of him in English. By these translators.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes. I want more of him in English. By these translators.

I'm glad to hear that, and I hope you can get it.

I looked at Gutenberg, and it appears a couple of things by him in French are there, but, hélas, neither is one of the works of his which I'd most like to read.

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

I read "Quest For Fire" and (I think) "Les Xipehuz" many moons back. At any rate he sounds more complex than Verne. Enjoy!

[sovay]

At any rate he sounds more complex than Verne. Enjoy!

rushthatspeaks will have a review of the book at Strange Horizons next week (which will link to when it goes live, because it's one of their better), but for myself I can tell you it's worth tracking down for the stories.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

A very good improvement.

[sovay]

A very good improvement.

It was really not a bad day at all. I had a hazelnut chocolate drink with rushthatspeaks at the Diesel. Dave's Fresh Pasta sells what Rush informs me is not half bad burrata for being made outside of Italy, entirely worth its eight dollars. And for once the bus up Highland came exactly when we needed it to. Various bits of my body still really hate me, but I'm feeling less totally hopeless about them.

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

Glad things improved!

[sovay]

Glad things improved!

I wish you the same!

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

That sounds like an excellent arc for your day.

[sovay]

That sounds like an excellent arc for your day.

It is highly preferable to the alternative!

. . . It was also just really nice. The weather was even good for walking around in. Out of nowhere, in the middle of a Davis Square afternoon, the breeze smelled like the sea.

[gwynnega]

Glad to hear of the improvement! It sounds like it turned out to be an excellent day.

[sovay]

It sounds like it turned out to be an excellent day.

I was very pleased with the results.