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Dec. 12th, 2014 09:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
semperfionaFiona...is sitting in a library in a big old house in Westchester NY with Corwin.
This morning I decided it was time for my quasi-sesquiannual reread, or in this case re-listen, of the Chronicles of Amber. My commute takes three chapters.
I recently reread (or re-listened) to two of the other books on the quasi-sesquiannual reread list: Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay and The Lord of the Rings; this is the remaining one. Those three books (or series) are, along with The Fionavar Tapestry, my desert island book list: the books I cannot live without, no matter how well I know them I have to reimmerse myself in their words and their worlds every so often.
(I spent the walk in from the car trying to determine what is the appropriate word for 'approximately every year-and-a-half'. Can't use semi- as a prefix to mean 'about', since in the context of a measurement of time it always means 'half'. Guess we better go with quasi-. Not sure I've ever actually seen or heard sesquiannual, but it ought to mean what I want it to, so.)
This morning I decided it was time for my quasi-sesquiannual reread, or in this case re-listen, of the Chronicles of Amber. My commute takes three chapters.
I recently reread (or re-listened) to two of the other books on the quasi-sesquiannual reread list: Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay and The Lord of the Rings; this is the remaining one. Those three books (or series) are, along with The Fionavar Tapestry, my desert island book list: the books I cannot live without, no matter how well I know them I have to reimmerse myself in their words and their worlds every so often.
(I spent the walk in from the car trying to determine what is the appropriate word for 'approximately every year-and-a-half'. Can't use semi- as a prefix to mean 'about', since in the context of a measurement of time it always means 'half'. Guess we better go with quasi-. Not sure I've ever actually seen or heard sesquiannual, but it ought to mean what I want it to, so.)
