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Nov. 10th, 2005 12:47 amGot word, at long last, that the French edition of my comic VACATION IN IBIZA is officially cancelled. It's disappointing, especially since the French were the first to buy it, on proposal, at least a year or two before anyone else did, but it's also a relief since they've not published it now for so long and at least now we can try and shop it elsewhere.
So a mixed sigh of disappointment and relief.
But that's how today has been in general.
And not just because I'm sore after my first day back at the gym. (Having met a friend for tea this afternoon, he kept laughing every time I pressed the soothingly-warm mug against my tender arms or chest.)
Today I finished reading![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
matociquala's WORLDWIRED. I had forgotten too much between the first two books and this, alas, so it took me a while to get back into the world. I also think that the book is, while necessary to get closure for the series and ends in a nice place, pretty much an epilogue or post-mortem of the exciting and daring (that Bear pulled off as an author) things that happened in Book 2. But there's a lot of dealing with the consequences (emotional, legal, etc.) of the events of the last book, so WORLDWIRED is more about closure than further astounding things. I'm sounding more negative than I mean to, although reading large chunks of legal proceedings is not my cup of tea (I've never tried the Scott Turows or John Grishams for that reason). And I never really got a good feel or warmed to the two new scientists, and the xenolinguistics was an important subplot but having read, say, something like Janet Kagan's HELLSPARK, didn't feel all that new to me. I did like that Bear does give us closure without having to explain too much about certain of her aliens. (In fact, we as readers never actually meet some of the ones her characters do.) But I'd recommend reading all three of the books back-to-back for the final one to have more oomph.
So a mixed sigh of disappointment and relief.
But that's how today has been in general.
And not just because I'm sore after my first day back at the gym. (Having met a friend for tea this afternoon, he kept laughing every time I pressed the soothingly-warm mug against my tender arms or chest.)
Today I finished reading
matociquala's WORLDWIRED. I had forgotten too much between the first two books and this, alas, so it took me a while to get back into the world. I also think that the book is, while necessary to get closure for the series and ends in a nice place, pretty much an epilogue or post-mortem of the exciting and daring (that Bear pulled off as an author) things that happened in Book 2. But there's a lot of dealing with the consequences (emotional, legal, etc.) of the events of the last book, so WORLDWIRED is more about closure than further astounding things. I'm sounding more negative than I mean to, although reading large chunks of legal proceedings is not my cup of tea (I've never tried the Scott Turows or John Grishams for that reason). And I never really got a good feel or warmed to the two new scientists, and the xenolinguistics was an important subplot but having read, say, something like Janet Kagan's HELLSPARK, didn't feel all that new to me. I did like that Bear does give us closure without having to explain too much about certain of her aliens. (In fact, we as readers never actually meet some of the ones her characters do.) But I'd recommend reading all three of the books back-to-back for the final one to have more oomph.
