The Winds of Winter
I am guessing that few of us are sorry to see 2015 slink off into the night. I am sure that many of us had some bright and shining moments in those twelve months, but for the world at large, too often its history was written in blood. So it seems fitting that it ended with yet another loss, silencing the soaring voice of the gifted Natalie Cole, R.I.P.
I hope 2016 has gotten off to a good start for my Facebook friends and readers. Holly and I are still in limbo. Forget Waiting for Godot; all that matters at Penman Manor is waiting for Dr David Hadley, three days and counting. We are also waiting for the arrival tomorrow of Holly’s surgical suit. The mailman will probably be surprised to find me camping out on the porch for him, and even more surprised to get the sort of welcome usually reserved for rock stars and royalty. I refuse to let myself contemplate what will happen if the suit does not work and Holly has to keep wearing the Cone of Shame for another nine days. Has anyone else ever used this for their dogs post-surgery? If you have and found it was useless, please lie to me; I am in need of even false hopes!
I am sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings, this time concerning Master George RR Martin. He has admitted that his new novel will not be done by the time the HBO series returns in April. Here is the link to the story. http://www.ew.com/article/2016/01/02/... Since I devote so many of my waking hours to fending off my own deadline dragon, I hesitate to join the critical chorus. But I could suggest to Master Martin that he do with Winds of Winter what I did with Lionheart: make two books out of it. Okay, that would make eight books in the series, but that is significant only if they are supposed to match the seven kingdoms, right? Since I have not been consulted, however, I’d say the chances of this happening are slim and none and slim has left town.
Signing off now to go hand-feed Holly her lunch…sigh.
I hope 2016 has gotten off to a good start for my Facebook friends and readers. Holly and I are still in limbo. Forget Waiting for Godot; all that matters at Penman Manor is waiting for Dr David Hadley, three days and counting. We are also waiting for the arrival tomorrow of Holly’s surgical suit. The mailman will probably be surprised to find me camping out on the porch for him, and even more surprised to get the sort of welcome usually reserved for rock stars and royalty. I refuse to let myself contemplate what will happen if the suit does not work and Holly has to keep wearing the Cone of Shame for another nine days. Has anyone else ever used this for their dogs post-surgery? If you have and found it was useless, please lie to me; I am in need of even false hopes!
I am sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings, this time concerning Master George RR Martin. He has admitted that his new novel will not be done by the time the HBO series returns in April. Here is the link to the story. http://www.ew.com/article/2016/01/02/... Since I devote so many of my waking hours to fending off my own deadline dragon, I hesitate to join the critical chorus. But I could suggest to Master Martin that he do with Winds of Winter what I did with Lionheart: make two books out of it. Okay, that would make eight books in the series, but that is significant only if they are supposed to match the seven kingdoms, right? Since I have not been consulted, however, I’d say the chances of this happening are slim and none and slim has left town.
Signing off now to go hand-feed Holly her lunch…sigh.
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I've never used The Cone on dogs, since I'm a Cat Person, but did have to use it on Stanley when he had an injury between his shoulders -- right where he'd rip it open with his claws. Poor baby HATED it, but the Wicked Human persisted in making him wear it -- I took it off to let him eat and as soon as he looked like he was about to raise a foot, it went right back on. He got through it, dignity only slightly damaged.I was in the bookstore this weekend and had a moment of delight on seeing a new GRRM book, then realized it's that one that's set 100 years BEFORE GoT. :( I didn't get it. I wonder if he realizes that there are lots of people refusing to get anything new from him until he finished THIS series?
The Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is not new, those three (wonderful) novellas about Dunk and Egg were published years ago i various antologies. This is just the first time they have been released together in one book in English (they had been before, in other languages), with artwork added. I'm looking forward to the next D&E stories almost as much as to TWOW. They are great.
People should just get off GRRM's case. Seriously. I bet the writing process is much more difficult with people constantly nagging him wherever he goes. At least that's how I usually feel when people put pressure on me and put deadlines. You start hating something you used to love doing.
I don't care when the book is out, I care that it's good. If finding out about plot points is all that matters, then reading Wiki would be as good as reading a book. Or if people just want some kind of an ending, in spite of poor quality of storytelling, mischaracterization and misunderstanding of themes, they can watch the show.
Me, I'm going to be avoiding the show anyway. Not because of possible spoilers, but because the show has turned into unwatchable garbage.
My mistake (?) -- it was on the rack of NEW BOOKS in the bookstore. I picked it up, saw that it was set 100 years prior to GoT and put it back down.
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Speaking of annoying, I thoroughly annoyed with GRRM..I'm going to be dead and buried without ever getting an ending to this monolith.
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