rain and darkangels
Aug. 26th, 2014 01:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
incandescensManaged to avoid much of the rain earlier (though was grateful to be wearing a jacket, as I didn't avoid all of it) and am now listening to the rattling against my window. At the moment, my main hope is that it at least clears up by Saturday, so that I don't have to face the choice between "walk across Great Yorkshire Show grounds to get to quilt show in rain, or get expensive taxi". Such decisions always feel as if you made the wrong choice, whichever way you decide.
Still four days to go, though. Or possibly five. I should not count the bad weather before it has poured down on me.
It wasn't that bad earlier. Pleasantly cool with a jacket, and one could ignore the ambient dampness while maintaining a sardonic sort of "so this is England in August on a Bank Holiday weather" humour. It was only when it started getting actively and annoyingly wet that people started running for cover or sprouting umbrellas.
Hopefully the crops need it. I would like to think that at least someone (or something) was getting some use out of it.
Was rereading the Darkangel trilogy by Meredith Ann Pierce earlier. On reviewing the later books and the eventual conclusion, I'm astonished that it wound up in the children's section of my old library when I first encountered it. I can only assume that whoever was responsible for putting the series there did so on the basis of the first book, which was admittedly fairly straightforward and could be read as YA, or children's literature, as I'm not sure the YA term was being used at that point. But when you consider how it ends - with the heroine leaving her (male) True Love behind and heading off with a female friend to finish repairing the world...
(Not that I object to it being in the children's section. Quite the contrary.)
Still four days to go, though. Or possibly five. I should not count the bad weather before it has poured down on me.
It wasn't that bad earlier. Pleasantly cool with a jacket, and one could ignore the ambient dampness while maintaining a sardonic sort of "so this is England in August on a Bank Holiday weather" humour. It was only when it started getting actively and annoyingly wet that people started running for cover or sprouting umbrellas.
Hopefully the crops need it. I would like to think that at least someone (or something) was getting some use out of it.
Was rereading the Darkangel trilogy by Meredith Ann Pierce earlier. On reviewing the later books and the eventual conclusion, I'm astonished that it wound up in the children's section of my old library when I first encountered it. I can only assume that whoever was responsible for putting the series there did so on the basis of the first book, which was admittedly fairly straightforward and could be read as YA, or children's literature, as I'm not sure the YA term was being used at that point. But when you consider how it ends - with the heroine leaving her (male) True Love behind and heading off with a female friend to finish repairing the world...
(Not that I object to it being in the children's section. Quite the contrary.)
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Date: 2014-08-26 03:39 am (UTC)Glad you were able to miss the worst of it! And I'll wish you clear skies for your quilt show...
At our local bookstore, they sold that series in the YA section, too... interesting and I'm glad that it had that ending. I only got through the first book.
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Date: 2014-08-26 09:39 pm (UTC)But yes, it does have that ending. And you have the feeling that the heroine will be happy in the end. So that's nice. ;)