Surreal day :)

[syredronning]

The sun is shining outside (but we were too lazy to go out yet). On the TV, "Ran" by Kurosawa is showing. I've read the S&Mc GEN h/c novel To Begin Anew by Pat Foley and am once more impressed by her writing. Excellent, detailed but never boring :)

My mailinglists are all dead quiet. I wonder what to do with the day now. I think I'll start with a shower and move on from there...

Comments

[autismmom.livejournal.com]

I woke up to two inches of snow -- it just stopped (finally!) an hour ago. If it wasn't constantly melting now we would have 4-5 inches of snow. Yuck. And just seven days ago it was 82 F (28 C). Strange.

[nikita79x.livejournal.com]

I found Kirk in that story disturbing, but most of all I wished that Spock would begin to grow up at an accelerated rate. It might then change his view of McCoy having depended on the man for shelter, protection and even (gasp!) love and turn it into something deeper between them. I just can't stop wanting the slash - even when I knew full well it was Gen....I thought a few times that she was hinting that Spock was going to sprout up when he seemed too thin, but then it was the parental bond thingy. (technical term)

And just when would Spock have ridden horses as a young child?? And compete? I found that odd. And I don't quite see McCoy that much into riding horses - in canon it was Kirk's thing. Oh well - I shouldn't read gen if I'm going to pick so much. ;)

[titc.livejournal.com]

Yes, I did have a hard time imagining Spock being a horse-riding champion on Vulcan. It also felt somewhat unfinished - was it an AU, or did he find some solution to accelerate his body growth before retiring to Gol to retrain his mind and - insert common back-for-V'Ger plot here... ?
On the other hand, I actually liked the fact that Kirk was not perfect in this story - maybe it was a bit heavy, but he does have a ruthless streak in him.
And the Sarek part was unsettling too, I would have liked to know how it turned out between father and son, and to understand what really happened between them. Did Sarek realise he was traumatazing Spock when a kid? Didn't Amanda have anything to say about it? Did she have a bond with Spock to protect him from his father?
But on the other hand, the writing was good and the story interesting, and even if her takes on the characters and their backstories is not mine it was ompelling enough for me to suspend disbelief, as we say, for the duration of the read, which was all in all a good one.

[syredronning.livejournal.com]

Hehe, I'm with you concerning slash. I just can't help it :))

I liked the idea with the horse riding, it makes sense, somehow ;) (and takes away a Shatnerism to make it into TOS stuff ;)

[syredronning.livejournal.com]

There will be a sequel, the author told me :))

I love Pat's "Holography 2", which is a real gem IMVHO. "To begin anew" was, in contrast, just a very nice read for a day :)