" 'You're a hippie, right?' He spoke as if, like Canadians or Methodists, hippies walked quietly among us, indistinguishable to the naked eye."

(David Sedaris, The Change in Me)

When Dr. Durrani finally came into the drawing room, he was quite surprised to see his visitors. Noticing Bhaskar, he asked Haresh ( Read more... )

Also, I'm re-reading 'A Suitable Boy' now, but, knowing what will happen, I'm finding parts of it a bit hard to take...

Just wrote up some thoughts on HP7 to a friend - maybe I'll post them once I've refined them a bit. (Oh how profound and philosophical I am, posting thoughts on Harry Potter...) (That was meant to mock only me, not other people who wrote about HP - simply because I tend not to post thoughts about anything, so that the exception should be HP is not ( Read more... )

Ok. I'm about to start. But I'm suddenly worried...am I really ready to plunge into the beginning of the end? Well, I'd better be, because people (my mother, among others) will yell at me if I put it off any longer...

Missmoreland stuffs her fingers in her ears, shuts her eyes, and begins to hum loudly. The responses so far ( Read more... )

While in a bookstore searching for a birthday present for a certain someone the other day, I decided to buy myself a present as well. I bought A. A. Milne's 'When We Were Very Young,' from which my mum used to read to me when I was very young. So now, partially in imitation of Peggy's haiku series, I've decided to occasionally share with you all ( Read more... )

Finally starting "A Year in the Merde" (Stephen Clarke). Or starting for the second time, actually. We'll see if I can keep reading without breaking down.

p. 8: " 'I saw their success and I wanted their head of marketing, so I went to London and decapitated him. Decapitated?'
" 'Headhunted,' I said."