So today was a pretty awesome day.

( ... about books, buckley, buying and bonding ... )

Then slowly she lifted her head and looked at Matilda. She saw the child white in the face, as white as paper, trembling all over, the eyes glazed, staring straight ahead and seeing nothing. The whole face was transfigured, the eyes round and bright and she was sitting there speechless, quite beautiful in a blaze of silence.--- p175 ( Read more... )

Rather unsurprisingly, I have paid a little too much money to have internet access in the hotel room so I don't have to venture out into the heat of Canberra. And since one of the books I bought yesterday proved unreadable and the second slightly tedious, here I am to post about just how much I love Roald Dahl.

( ... on the perfection and pain of being a writer and a reader. )

Having bought it nigh on a month ago and after carrying it around with me for about two weeks, today I finally knuckled down and read Darius Bell And The Glitter Pool by Odo Hirsch.

Never heard of it or the author before. It was purely one of those browse shelves purchases, looking for something to catch my interest. The title got me, the cover ( Read more... )

Since it's Roald Dahl Day and omigod I never realised he was a Virgo ...

He put the earphones to his head and switched on the machine. He listened for a moment to the faint familiar humming sound; then he picked the axe, took a stance with his legs wide apart and swung the axe as hard as he could at the base of the tree trunk. The blade cut deep ( Read more... )

I'm having LJ issues. Sure it has something to do with fucked up cookies because once I log in, it all goes kaflooey. Bizarrely enough, I can get into Update Journal, wtf? But no friends page or even own LJ for dri. Bloody hell.

So DVDs and moping today, I think. Started Watership Down last night. Oh, The BFG had possibly the best line in a book ( Read more... )

Hm. Toying with the idea of joining nin_icontest. Think I'll sleep on it ( Read more... )

Icon therapy ( Read more... )

And sometimes musical soundtracks are exactly what you need to make a Saturday morning perfect.

Newsies
Xanadu
Gene Kelly: The MGM Collection
Singin' In The Rain
Buffy: The Musical

Normally I'd have Cabaret in there but upness was the tone of this morning, not bleak darkness. Hell, Buffy supplies that anyway. And omigod Ari and I were totally ( Read more... )

Did I mention I saw Charlie & The Chocolate Factory ages ago?

Went to see it again today with Ari. ( I like fairly spoilery grapes. )