the pollysyllabic spree
I'm still on a bit of a Hornby kick.
I'm reading 'The Polysyllabic Spree', and so present my own list of books I've read this month:
-High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
-Sandman vol.
1 - Preludes and Nocturnes - Neil Gaiman
- Wishful Thinking - Fredrick Buechner
- The Road - Cormac McCarthy
- The Polysllabic Spree - Nick Hornby (in process)
Now, my list of shame. As a result of my new roommate, I have sat through, and even found myself enjoying, programs that I would never have suspected myself capable of viewing.
Here they are:
-season six of 'Sex in the City' (and I'm not at all sure I'm okay with this Big character...)
- half of the first season of 'Weeds'.
-Hairspray (and yes, I even enjoyed it.
But it has christopher walken and john travolta as a drag queen! perfectly respectable!)
-The biggest shocker of them all (for me) - Music and Lyrics (with hugh grant and drew barrymore). Yes, I had absolutely no desire to see this, either, but, god help me, I chuckled! The beers helped, but, well, no, I won't try to talk myself out of it. I would watch it again. Mainly due to the brain popping '80's music video which begins the film. You get to see it at the end, as well! Hell, truth be told, I've watched the music video four or five times, already.
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I never really considered it before, but it is kind of cool (maybe?) that I'm a kindergarten teacher who has read Kafka, Dostoyevsky, Gunter Grass, and Milan Kundera. Or am just trying to make myself feel better? I'd never really thought about that as such an odd commingling before, until my roommate's father came over. He expressed surprise that I had Kafka on the book shelf, and asked me who Gunter Grass was. Yes, I ended that with a preposition. If Winston Churchill doesn't mind, I'm mostly okay with it. ("This is the kind of thing up with which I will not put!" - Winston Churchill.
)
I'm reading 'The Polysyllabic Spree', and so present my own list of books I've read this month:
-High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
-Sandman vol.
1 - Preludes and Nocturnes - Neil Gaiman
- Wishful Thinking - Fredrick Buechner
- The Road - Cormac McCarthy
- The Polysllabic Spree - Nick Hornby (in process)
Now, my list of shame. As a result of my new roommate, I have sat through, and even found myself enjoying, programs that I would never have suspected myself capable of viewing.
Here they are:
-season six of 'Sex in the City' (and I'm not at all sure I'm okay with this Big character...)
- half of the first season of 'Weeds'.
-Hairspray (and yes, I even enjoyed it.
But it has christopher walken and john travolta as a drag queen! perfectly respectable!)
-The biggest shocker of them all (for me) - Music and Lyrics (with hugh grant and drew barrymore). Yes, I had absolutely no desire to see this, either, but, god help me, I chuckled! The beers helped, but, well, no, I won't try to talk myself out of it. I would watch it again. Mainly due to the brain popping '80's music video which begins the film. You get to see it at the end, as well! Hell, truth be told, I've watched the music video four or five times, already.
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I never really considered it before, but it is kind of cool (maybe?) that I'm a kindergarten teacher who has read Kafka, Dostoyevsky, Gunter Grass, and Milan Kundera. Or am just trying to make myself feel better? I'd never really thought about that as such an odd commingling before, until my roommate's father came over. He expressed surprise that I had Kafka on the book shelf, and asked me who Gunter Grass was. Yes, I ended that with a preposition. If Winston Churchill doesn't mind, I'm mostly okay with it. ("This is the kind of thing up with which I will not put!" - Winston Churchill.
)