Another Birthday
By admin on September 23rd, 2007
Another Birthday come and gone. With the Toddler’s now the day before mine, I have really stopped celebrating. It’s selfish for me to take away from her, and seems silly to have two cakes or two parties one right after another.
So every year I don’t really ask for anything, and every year my family surprises with some really nice gifts that are pretty spot on.
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This year, I received Spook Country
, by William Gibson and am greatly enjoying it: better than All Tommorow’s Parties or Pattern Recognition. Gibson basically takes a stock cast of characters and plunks them down in today’s world, shouting “It’s here! It’s already here and we never noticed!” There’s a nice sense of outrage at the political scene, and a sense that we’ve given up too much to ever recover. Take a look, I think you’ll enjoy it.
I also got Call Of Duty 3
for the Wii
. Story-wise, it’s the same-old same-old, but the Wii’s control scheme is pretty cool. Although the developers added a few gimicky things and the aiming is a little rough around the edges, I always felt in control and that any problems I ha were my fault, not the controller’s. The combat seems closer and more brutal than in previous incarnations, but I’m really getting tired of the SAS missions: They’re the same faux stealth in every CoC and get old fast. The tank and driving levels are kinda fun, and I really like the charge placement, as cheesy as it is.
Also picked up The Complete Writer’s Kit
by Scott Edelstein. What Really attracted me was Natalie Goldberg
‘s name in the package. I’ve been a fan of hers sine Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within (Shambhala Pocket Classics)
. Don’t want to say too much about this as it’ll end up on the Book Page, but so far it’s got loads of useful information, attractively packaged.
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