Got my copy of Butcher’s latest, White Night–book 9 in the Dresden File series. Picked it up at the train station, no less. I was just scanning the shelves while waiting for the departure time, and it practically jumped off the shelf and bopped me on the head. I’ll be zipping through it on my subway rides, no doubt, so expect a review within the next day or so.
In other, more interesting news, I give you a video that most people will no doubt think of as a computer animation on first view. Let me assure you that this is physical reality. What you are seeing here, if I understand it correctly, is an iron-concentrate liquid reacting to focused magnetic fields being manipulated through those two opposing cones. Someone then set this to music, and you have a rather breathtaking view of natural symmetry at work. This is the kind of science I enjoy, where it possesses an intricate elegance and order, plus just weirds you out because you expect it to mutate and start attacking people.
Oh, and I found this rather helpful link. Terry Bisson (author of eccentric and enjoyable science fiction) gives his list of Seven Ways to Beat Writer’s Block and How I Made Them Work for Me!
Take notes, people.
I see that smile.
I finished White Night on Sunday after about eight hours straight of reading. (Yeah. I know. I’m slow.) I loved being able to disappear to my beloved Dressie land. *grins and sighs* Looking forward to your review. I’m gonna get mind written up before I read yours, though. It’d be interesing to compare notes, so to speak.
I enjoyed book one. Am reading book two a few pages at a time. I find I get distracted a lot with this one. Maybe werewolves just don’t interest me much. Actually, it’s that I didn’t feel the peril to Harry right off. In the first, he’s in big doodoo. In this one, well, I am not sensing his big danger until well past page 50.
Mir
Some of them are like that, yeah. They either start out with Harry already running for his life, major kick-in-the-pants beginner, or it’s a slower start, with the investigation angle ratcheting up a notch after a couple chapters…more character intrigue and deepening plot. I’m about 2/3rds through White Night now, and loving every twist and tangle so far.