The sulked about holiday wasn’t as bad a start to another year, after all.;o

D-day consisted of a non-delayed flight, orchids(yippeeness), apparel, and butterscotch cake.

The rest of the time - well, I met one out of the two friends originally intended on meeting (50% hit rate, yay!), and her "recently acquired" husband (none of our other mutual friends have met him yet, which is oh such a point to score on;o) ), hogged a bit (even if not as much as I’d have liked to), did not watch either of the two movies, and loafed a lot more than I like to admit.

But I did get time to read more or less uninterrupted, Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman’s The Fall of The Kings. I haven’t read Swordspoint but I read The Privilege of the Sword last month and liked it a lot more than I’d thought I would. The Fall of the Kings turned out to be very, very nicely written indeed, though I did think that the events towards the end didn’t quite live up to the richness of the rest of the book, especially the magic elements. Methought they do better at writing the mythic / historical aspect than the core fantasy part. Still a good read.