Vatican Rag
I am having another busy week. Monday I went out driving; Tuesday I met purplefringe and nosesaretasty and locowerewolf and then babysat all evening,; today I went to see the GCSE drama plays after school in order to reveiw them for my school annual magazine thing. Tomorrow I have a Stephen Hawking Society lecture on 'Eggs, Embryos and Ethics', which should be good; Friday after school I am going to hang around with meine_kleine for the first time in ages, which will be wonderful.
Book #29 was Counting Sheep by Paul Martin, which was a delightfully well-written and very interesting book about sleep, and ironically, I have not been getting very much. I do, however, plan on improving and also on starting a sleep-log. (On paper, not eljay, as that would be very boring.) I also finally finished Point Counter-point by Aldous Huxley, which I should probably re-read at some point in order to understand properly. Currently my read of it is that it is essentially the author showing off how clever he is by creating very clever characters who show off how clever they are, and that the entire point of the novel is that these people all lead fairly enpty, meaningless, depraved or unsatisfying lives, if not all of them at once. The characters on the most part tend to have a combination of lots of sex, money, political opinions and education, and are ver literate, articulate and voluble with their opinions. It's very good, but I'm not sure how much I enjoyed it.
(This takes me up to #30. Unfortunately, meine_kleine is now on thirty-two.
This is not fair.
I would cheat and just read lots of small books, but unfortunately the list of books I have to read doesn't really contain any. It is also now longer, because my wonderful aunt (& co) who gave me Straw Dogs has now given me the other half of my present, which is The Steep Approach to Garbadale.
No, I am not obsessed. Shut up.
who wants to start an Iain Banks group on Facebook?
In other cool news, I may have a very cool part-time job in the summer, or at least have been offered the possibility of one. This is very exciting, and I shall give more info when I have it.
(Also, I am inundated with lovely music; Tom Lehrer and Wicked and Fairport Convention. Glee.)
Book #29 was Counting Sheep by Paul Martin, which was a delightfully well-written and very interesting book about sleep, and ironically, I have not been getting very much. I do, however, plan on improving and also on starting a sleep-log. (On paper, not eljay, as that would be very boring.) I also finally finished Point Counter-point by Aldous Huxley, which I should probably re-read at some point in order to understand properly. Currently my read of it is that it is essentially the author showing off how clever he is by creating very clever characters who show off how clever they are, and that the entire point of the novel is that these people all lead fairly enpty, meaningless, depraved or unsatisfying lives, if not all of them at once. The characters on the most part tend to have a combination of lots of sex, money, political opinions and education, and are ver literate, articulate and voluble with their opinions. It's very good, but I'm not sure how much I enjoyed it.
(This takes me up to #30. Unfortunately, meine_kleine is now on thirty-two.
This is not fair.
I would cheat and just read lots of small books, but unfortunately the list of books I have to read doesn't really contain any. It is also now longer, because my wonderful aunt (& co) who gave me Straw Dogs has now given me the other half of my present, which is The Steep Approach to Garbadale.
No, I am not obsessed. Shut up.
who wants to start an Iain Banks group on Facebook?
In other cool news, I may have a very cool part-time job in the summer, or at least have been offered the possibility of one. This is very exciting, and I shall give more info when I have it.
(Also, I am inundated with lovely music; Tom Lehrer and Wicked and Fairport Convention. Glee.)