colleen the convivial curmudgeon > Recent Status Updates

I'm not very far into the story yet, but I'm really enjoying the writing. It's got that wry humor which is right up my alley.

It is never a good sign when your thoughts on ending a book are "Hallelujah, I'm finished."

Kearns is just as insufferable as Warthrop. Yay...

The Anthropophagi are very inefficient eaters.

So the doctor has some decency. Good to know.

Does it ever pick up?

I sort of want to throttle Warthrop every time he says "Snap to, William Henry!" - and he says it a lot.
At times Warthrop's characterization reminds me of Holmes, with his mania while on a case, and depression when not, his egotism and whatnot. But he has none of Holmes' charm.
Anyway, I'm not very far into it, yet, but it's not exactly gripping thus far.

I think I might like Valek.

I'd finish it tonight, but just can't keep my eyes open anymore.

I really like Mother Maggie. she's pretty awesome.

The thing with the FedEx package was pretty predictable, but I'm enjoying the general story overall.

At first, I felt a bit like the characters were too much a smorgasborg, like it was like "I HATE to put in as many minority variations as I can!" But as the story has progressed, that's faded in the background::: There was one weird scene where a guy is hovering at the top of the stairs, invites the 3 friars upstairs, and then, when they get there, he's seated in a chair across the room. Why wouldn't he just wait?

So far it seems promising. That said, I'm getting distracted by the use of the "Ah" instead of "I" for those with a drawl. And, speaking of, one of the priests, Dylan I think - had a Tenessee drawl on one page, and a Kentucky one two pages later. I'm waiting to see if this is a character thing, or a flub.
Lastly, not all Wiccans are goddess-worshippers, and the 9 million number has been completed refuted...

"Truth was sometimes not the same as reality - this was one of the certainties that lived in the hollow, cavey place at the center of his divided nature."