Stephen King makes much of 'harmonizing' in 11.22.63.  Seeing echoes of a theme or person in different times and places.  I get that all the time in reading.

For example, I wouldn't expect to read about pig-sticking more than once in a very great while, but it's shown up twice so far this year.

Transmogrification is a fairly typical theme, especially ( Read more... )

Midway through The Goshawk.  I can appreciate (relate to?) T.H. White's monomania--not with falconry specifically, but generally the triumphs and setbacks and hopes and disappointments of immersion in anything.

Goodreads is really pushing the Starz adaptation of Howards End.  Banner ads on the website and now email notifcations.  Well, I do have ( Read more... )

Began The Goshawk last night after finishing The Candle in the Wind.

As predicted, Candle's ending was kind of a downer--but also philosophical, with Arthur considering the cause of war and how it may be prevented.  He seems to come to a conclusion, and then he dies.  Reminded me of the girl at the beginning of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:

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My experience with Arthurian legend is pretty incomplete, or this is the conclusion that I've come to as I begin the fourth volume of The Once and Future King.

My Chaucer professor referred frequently to Le Morte d'Arthur (Malory), and T. H. White frequently references the work to say that more complete accounts of what I'm reading are available ( Read more... )

Finished Anna Karenina yesterday. Levin's final religious epiphany rubbed me the wrong way; if this book had a sequel--I'm really glad there isn't one, but for argument's sake--I think he'd end up backsliding and be just as indecisive and miserable as he ever was.

Finished Jekyll & Hyde today. I know I read it in middle school at some point, but I ( Read more... )

I usually would've gone to see a movie or something over the weekend, and I really do want to see The Lorax, but I'm abstaining from spending money on movies, music, books, and other similar media for the month of March (see: Black March).

It's not a very great sacrifice--not for me, anyway. I sort of cheated by stocking up on eBooks in February, ( Read more... )

The reporter-style flip case I've had on my Kindle forever has been looking a little worse for wear, so I decided to order a new and different case from the good people at Pad & Quill.

For a first glance, it sort of resembles a hard cover Moleskine journal.

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My imaginary cast for Wizard and Glass:

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♫ out of sight, out of mind ♫

[Edit:

I'd forgotten that Blip.fm automatically feeds here until I noticed it pop up on my Twitter feed from here. I don't remember setting that up for LiveJournal or Twitter. But then, it's been a while since I've touched Blip.fm either. Oops.

Considering that my last entry for this journal was way the hell back in March ( Read more... )

There was a remark posted over at KindleBoards about the tendency for books these days to come as a series rather than single stories, with a poll about preference for one versus the other. My reflex response was that I don't have a preference and that one is just as good as the other, and my logical mind stands behind that judgement. However, if I ( Read more... )