Company of Swans

I read Eva Ibbotson's Journey to the River Sea for a book club last week. The logical next step was a re-read of Ibbotson's A Company of Swans, which shares the same setting, time period, and even some themes (though Journey, being a book for kids, has less emphasis on romantic love). Company of Swans is a lovely book, if you're looking for romantic fiction.
This week I also re-read Ender's Game for a book club, played several games of the Book Lover's Trivial Pursuit (which I lost every time, thanks to the SO's freakish and amazing knowledge), and read more of Bronte's The Professor. But mostly, I watched figure skating. Nationals are on this weekend, which serve as de facto Olympic trials this year. This is my favorite skating event, hands down, because I get to see skaters (Rohene Ward, Parker Pennington, the girl who clearly enjoyed skating to Herbie Hancock in her short program) that I usually don't see. So my thoughts are filled with skating: could Johnny Weir possibly do a better short at the Olympics? will they send Orscher and Lucash? how can they leave Michelle Kwan off the team? why was Sasha Cohen's short program praised, when she was wobbly and uninspired by the music (and wearing an inexplicably ugly bodice)?