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Sunday: Hula lesson. Monday: Driving lesson. Tuesday: Dentist appointment. Wednesday: work. Thursday: go to the beach, plus a drinking game to "Monty Python and the Holy Grail." Friday: 3 hours of Portal 2 and going to the Backlot Film Festival for take two of 'Outcast of Camelot.' Tomorrow, Dad's birthday, to Laguna Beach with a friend I haven't seen in years, a close friend, and someone I don't know at all. I am just tired.
Um, on a shallow note there are two very pretty-looking new American Girl dolls, set in New Orleans. I have got to visit that city sometime.
And I have finished Bruno Bettelheim's The Uses of Enchantment. I'm glad of it, because that is a classic book and I learned a lot reading it. Very thought-provoking, if annoyingly Freudian. Honestly, how can someone be a Freudian psychologist, and a parent, and sleep at night?
Shannon Hale's The Goose Girl is also a very good book, very lyrical and a great adaptation of the story itself. Currently reading the second book of 'Temeraire' and enjoying it immensely -- only wondering if the third book will take place entirely in China, or what, because we're over halfway thru the book and we've only just gotten to Macao.
The only reason I can bring myself to feel sorry for having given up Mists of Avalon is that I'm forgetting the reasons I found it so annoying. I didn't mention last time the way that MZB pulls the "We are destined soulmates because we were priest and priestess in the temples of Atlantis ages ago, our SOULS are meant for each other" plotline twice -- with the same guy in both cases! Man must've gotten around in his last lifetime, very weird. Or the way that "tender, sensous, slow" lovemaking is somehow also an affront to the Goddess.
I've just ordered four more books for my very own. I tell you, I could get used to this whole "buying books online and then getting them in the mail like Christmas presents" thing.
I have ordered my last book, ever, from Borders, and I feel quite sorry for that. But on the bright side, my Terry Pratchett collection is now quite handsome, considering that until very recently it was just four and a half books (including Good Omens. And considering the total of how much he's written, four and a half is meager indeed.)
Also, I shall have a collection of books where no two books have the same style of cover. I like that a lot -- don't get me wrong, lovely united series are great too. But when each book has a distinct personality and every style can shine -- like with my Time Quartet books -- that's just pleasing.
I'm not gonna lie, I am vain about my bookshelves.
Um, on a shallow note there are two very pretty-looking new American Girl dolls, set in New Orleans. I have got to visit that city sometime.
And I have finished Bruno Bettelheim's The Uses of Enchantment. I'm glad of it, because that is a classic book and I learned a lot reading it. Very thought-provoking, if annoyingly Freudian. Honestly, how can someone be a Freudian psychologist, and a parent, and sleep at night?
Shannon Hale's The Goose Girl is also a very good book, very lyrical and a great adaptation of the story itself. Currently reading the second book of 'Temeraire' and enjoying it immensely -- only wondering if the third book will take place entirely in China, or what, because we're over halfway thru the book and we've only just gotten to Macao.
The only reason I can bring myself to feel sorry for having given up Mists of Avalon is that I'm forgetting the reasons I found it so annoying. I didn't mention last time the way that MZB pulls the "We are destined soulmates because we were priest and priestess in the temples of Atlantis ages ago, our SOULS are meant for each other" plotline twice -- with the same guy in both cases! Man must've gotten around in his last lifetime, very weird. Or the way that "tender, sensous, slow" lovemaking is somehow also an affront to the Goddess.
I've just ordered four more books for my very own. I tell you, I could get used to this whole "buying books online and then getting them in the mail like Christmas presents" thing.
I have ordered my last book, ever, from Borders, and I feel quite sorry for that. But on the bright side, my Terry Pratchett collection is now quite handsome, considering that until very recently it was just four and a half books (including Good Omens. And considering the total of how much he's written, four and a half is meager indeed.)
Also, I shall have a collection of books where no two books have the same style of cover. I like that a lot -- don't get me wrong, lovely united series are great too. But when each book has a distinct personality and every style can shine -- like with my Time Quartet books -- that's just pleasing.
I'm not gonna lie, I am vain about my bookshelves.