music, books, and video games

[violacea]

Happy album release day for, well, the entire flipping world! New music from Carbon Leaf, Chris Thile, and the Duhks to be had! Well, as soon as Amazon coughs up the goods. They did ship the Carbon Leaf album yesterday, though, so maybe I'll have it by the end of the week? Because I'm far too cheap to pay for the nice shipping. The other two shipped Friday, though, so I'm hopeful they'll arrive today or tomorrow. Maybe. If I wish hard enough.

I finished the second book in my historical romance experiment yesterday ... Black Silk, by Judith Ivory. I'm still kinda processing what I thought of it. It's excellently written, and draws a vivid portrait of three very interesting, very flawed individuals, all of whom feel incredibly realistic for the time period. As a romance, however? I'm not sure. The end didn't feel entirely satisfying to me - it didn't feel like the two main characters had built up enough trust and respect to really warrant the happy ending. Like I said, it felt very realistic, but I don't really go to romance novels for realism. So ... I think I'd recommend this book, because it held me captivated for three days. Just don't expect anyone between the pages to be entirely heroic!

So ... after visiting with slicklizard41 last night, I find myself randomly in the mood to play video games. Unfortunately, the only games I have for my PS2 are DDR Extreme and the random copy of Sims 2 that was abandoned in the console when I took it. I never have been able to figure out how to play Sims ... so, can anyone recommend any good games for PS2? Adventure-ish games, preferrably, or puzzle games. I'm not much for racing cars or shooting people or anything like that. Alternately, a Sims tutorial might be nice, too, if I can find the damned game now. ;)

It's going to be in the 60s today! Who would have thought that, in the beginning of September, that'd be a warming trend?

Comments

[mac-girl.livejournal.com]

So - I've always loved the Jak and Daxter series of games. The first one is definitely adventure-ish with not much violence and a good storyline. It's a PS2 Classic now, so I think it's only $20 or something at Target if you can find it.

[slicklizard41.livejournal.com]

don't forget to email me ;-)

[seimaisin.livejournal.com]

I'm working on uploading it, but it's taking forEVER. Are you on AIM tonight? If so, maybe I can just send it to you like that?

[zarhooie.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if Psychonauts is a PS2 game, but it's really fun.

[lilgreenfairy.livejournal.com]

The Final Fantasy series is quite good PS crack, ofcourse.. And if you do get into those, I hightly reccomend Kingdom Hearts.

[dragonsinger.livejournal.com]

My recommendations for this historical romance trend -- Jayel Wylie and Lucy Blue (if you can find them). It's the same author -- Rachel's sister -- and they're very good. She mixes historical and supernatural believably, and her heriones rarely act stereotypically.

Actually, the Lucy Blue books are better, but both are good. In fact, I'll send you one of each if you want me to.