Daily Reading (24 April 2015)

[nanila]

What have you been reading today? Everything counts, from a novel-length fic to the labels on your washing!

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[littlebutfierce]

I've been reading ('reading') some news articles & blogs in French & German (which I study ^^;;;)! Also a bit of Harry Potter 4 in French (same reason).

[nanila]

That sounds like a delightful mix! :D

[littlebutfierce]

Yeah, it seems to work out well. :D At least w/the blogs/articles, they are often short enough to last one attention-span burst & I can usually find things on different topics easily if I'm just not feeling like reading about one thing or another (er, I mean, if the actual news is too unbearably depressing to read over & over in the name of language learning, then to the blogs I go!).

[surpassingly]

I read this awesome short story! http://www.tor.com/stories/2015/04/the-pauper-prince-and-the-eucalyptus-jinn-usman-malik

[thamesynne]

Wow. That was *wonderful* - rich, intoxicating, full of love and wonder. Thank you for pointing us to it!

[nanila]

*bookmarks* Thank you for sharing!

[thamesynne]

Bits from the Guardian website; the Green Party manifesto (I defy anyone to read the postscript and not want to vote Green afterwards!); a couple of blogs, and the dreamwidth HTML guide; some C source code; and... an awful lot of branches and links off from there.

[thamesynne]

Oh, and the "electoral communication" fliers from the Pirate Party and the Communist Party that came through the door this morning. I was actually surprised by how attractively, professionally laid out the Communist Party flier is - subtly understated, unlike an awful lot of small-party fliers. Same as their billboards (there's one in Hillsborough). They've clearly got a serious designer on the team.

[nanila]

Nice! I'm still slogging my way through the Labour party manifesto, having gritted my teeth through the Conservative one. Both have reinforced my decision not to vote for either.

[weaverbird]

I read (skimmed, in most cases) a few Guardian articles, a couple pieces in Mother Jones and on NPR, a couple interesting-looking recipes, a review of some backup software, and part of a chapter of A Passage to India, which is the current bedtime reading. Bedtime reading time is almost hilariously short; I generally fall asleep within five minutes of opening the book, which used to bother me, but no longer. :)

[nanila]

Aha, I always forget to include the Guardian article-skimming in my daily reading. Thanks for that.

Bedtime reading is almost nonexistent for me now. As soon as I crawl under the duvet, I'm asleep!