the week in books
They are finally - finally - ripping down the old sagging balcony. We woke up this morning to find a strange man on our balcony! We sleep with the blind up so the early morning sun can wake us up so we had to quickly close it (and there's nothing more depressing than closed curtains during daylight - oh, except for watching TV during the day). It's not too noisy but I'm glad Adam has his white sheet up over the study window, the one he's been using as a backdrop for photography - it lets the sun through but means neither I nor the contractors will get embarrassed seeing each other!
I had promised myself to be good this week but that lasted as long as, well, five minutes. Especially 'cause it's November and Chapters emailed me four 25% off coupons - well, I have to use them don't I?
This week's purchases are:
kiwiria recommended The Demon King well before it was actually released, so it's taken me a while to get hold of it. Everyone seems to love it though! I also got Blood Bound, the second Mercy Thompson book, but I forgot to add an image here. Oh dear. Nine books? Oh dear.
I've already finished Me and My Shadow and I'm halfway through Intertwined. I've read the first story in Say You're One of Them (which is also the shortest). Interpreter of Maladies and The Turn of the Screw are also short story collections.
I've never read the latter - I really didn't like Lady Chatterley's Lover when I had to read it for uni so it put me off James (also, because I saw bits of Portrait of a Lady and even the few scenes that I watched depressed me). But I didn't even know what "The Turn of the Screw" was about before I picked it up this week - yeah I know, for an English major and an English teacher, it's amazing what I haven't read. Yet.
A friend on Goodreads recommended Life As We Knew It - it's post-apocalyptic YA, a genre I love. So, lots of books to be excited about!
What books have you picked up recently? What are you currently reading?
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We're having dinner at a friend's place tonight, and tomorrow morning I'm going to see the Body Worlds exhibition at the Ontario Science Centre - I'm really excited because I've been wanting to see this since it first toured back when I lived in Japan. I watched a DVD on it, a kind of behind-the-scenes how-they-do-it thing; it's fascinating.
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Oh, I almost forget! (How on Earth could I forget? But that's what the edit button is for!!)
Michael Smith went to HOBART!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He's a wonderful, low-key celebrity chef who had 2 shows on the Food network. One is filmed at his gorgeous house on PEI where he makes traditional food, and the other is called Chef Abroad - he goes all over the world meeting people and learning about the food they cook and grow and catch and it's a fantastic show.
So in last night's episode he went to Hobart, to Mures!!! and went fishing for crayfish (lobster), oysters and abalone. It was so funny - funny to both hear Smith try to pronounce "Travalla" because he'd never heard of it before, and to hear the accents of everyone else. I've become so used to hearing Canadian and American accents over the last four years that the Aussie accent sounds almost exaggerated now. But I still love it. I was bouncing on the couch and holding Adam's hand and grinning. To see home!! To hear a Canadian chef visit my home!! LOVE that guy!
The Hobart waterfront, or part of it, with Mures seafood restaurant there with the red roof. My brother used to work there.
I had promised myself to be good this week but that lasted as long as, well, five minutes. Especially 'cause it's November and Chapters emailed me four 25% off coupons - well, I have to use them don't I?
This week's purchases are:
kiwiria recommended The Demon King well before it was actually released, so it's taken me a while to get hold of it. Everyone seems to love it though! I also got Blood Bound, the second Mercy Thompson book, but I forgot to add an image here. Oh dear. Nine books? Oh dear.
I've already finished Me and My Shadow and I'm halfway through Intertwined. I've read the first story in Say You're One of Them (which is also the shortest). Interpreter of Maladies and The Turn of the Screw are also short story collections.
I've never read the latter - I really didn't like Lady Chatterley's Lover when I had to read it for uni so it put me off James (also, because I saw bits of Portrait of a Lady and even the few scenes that I watched depressed me). But I didn't even know what "The Turn of the Screw" was about before I picked it up this week - yeah I know, for an English major and an English teacher, it's amazing what I haven't read. Yet.
A friend on Goodreads recommended Life As We Knew It - it's post-apocalyptic YA, a genre I love. So, lots of books to be excited about!
What books have you picked up recently? What are you currently reading?
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We're having dinner at a friend's place tonight, and tomorrow morning I'm going to see the Body Worlds exhibition at the Ontario Science Centre - I'm really excited because I've been wanting to see this since it first toured back when I lived in Japan. I watched a DVD on it, a kind of behind-the-scenes how-they-do-it thing; it's fascinating.
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Oh, I almost forget! (How on Earth could I forget? But that's what the edit button is for!!)
Michael Smith went to HOBART!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He's a wonderful, low-key celebrity chef who had 2 shows on the Food network. One is filmed at his gorgeous house on PEI where he makes traditional food, and the other is called Chef Abroad - he goes all over the world meeting people and learning about the food they cook and grow and catch and it's a fantastic show.
So in last night's episode he went to Hobart, to Mures!!! and went fishing for crayfish (lobster), oysters and abalone. It was so funny - funny to both hear Smith try to pronounce "Travalla" because he'd never heard of it before, and to hear the accents of everyone else. I've become so used to hearing Canadian and American accents over the last four years that the Aussie accent sounds almost exaggerated now. But I still love it. I was bouncing on the couch and holding Adam's hand and grinning. To see home!! To hear a Canadian chef visit my home!! LOVE that guy!
The Hobart waterfront, or part of it, with Mures seafood restaurant there with the red roof. My brother used to work there.