So....these month-and-a-half hiatus type things really need to stop happening, self.

Um, ( briefly, Alaska )

It's not funny and I shouldn't laugh but dammit apropos of everything someone dies in a vat of chocolate the day I start rereading Thief of Time? What are the odds.

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I want to join a flash-mob or whatever they're called. I don't even care if it's for some ad or something, they just look like such fun. If only I could, you know, dance.

Snagged from heartstillatwar.

This can be a quick one. Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you've read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no ( Read more... )

01 Wow, it's been...almost two months since I posted last. Um, hi?

02 Two months of no internet means I read a bit more. Still plugging away at Proust and the Squid. The Smith College Used Book Sale came and went, and while I didn't get as many books as I did last year, I still got plenty. Picked up a couple more Iris Murdoch books, a few Japanese ( Read more... )

Dorkily excited about the bicentennial of Edgar Allen Poe's birth. I was obsessed with him back in middle and high school (my mystery genre faze, when virtually the only thing I read was vintage detective novels and current suspense books), can still recite "El Dorado" and bits of other poems by heart, but I liked his mysteries more than the horror ( Read more... )

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A Discworld spoof of Romeo and Juliet? I can dig it 8D As if I didn't love Pterry enough already, he shares the same views on R&J as I do!

Welcome to the middle of Banned Books Week! Found this quote from here on the week that I thought was really interesting:

Banned Books Week is really about two different, but related, things. The first of these, the focus of sites like Amnesty’s and the “Books Suppressed or Censored by Legal Authorities” section of my exhibit, deals with attempts to ( Read more... )

Man I really need to catch up on all the manga chapters I've missed....But not today, orz orz.

This past week I:
-vacuumed more times in one week than I probably have in all my years. Stupid dog. Stupid fleas. Dog gets a bath tomorrow, provided it's not super cold, since we finally got the flea meds for her on Friday. Thanks, vet, they were ( Read more... )

So, Otakon.

( In which there are dog demons, pirates, voice actors, authors, a video, waiting in line and lots of walking )

All from greatpoets

The Uses of Sorrow
Mary Oliver

(In my sleep I dreamed this poem)

Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness.

It took me years to understand
that this, too, was a gift.

( Rhina P. Espaillat, Anne Sexton, Ruth Stone, Stephen Dunn, Kim Addonizio )