books, post-whoday, etc.
(1) Does anyone besides me & breathingbooks watch Avatar: The Last Airbender? (The delightful TV show, not the big cinema thing, which I still haven't seen.)
(2) I found a ton of books at my favourite annual booksale. It's held in this huge empty hangar that typically stores -- airplanes, I think, and you have to put in a lot of searching but you can get great condition paperbacks for $1 each (YES REALLY).
Books which will go on the to-read pile
- The Portable Nietzsche, trans. Walter Kaufmann (I think I'm due for a re-read of Thus Spoke Zarathustra now that I've got a better handle on Nietzsche, and kind of love the dude)
- Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
- The Door Into Fire, Diane Duane (are these even in print anymore?)
- London, Edward Rutherfurd
- The Mists of Avalon, Marrion Zimmer Bradley (flist, is this any good?)
Books I've read
- To Visit the Queen, Diane Duane
- Deep Wizardry, Diane Duane (don't you hate it when publishers switch editions halfway through publishing a series and you want the covers to match so you go and re-buy everything?)
- Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke
Books which I've tried to read in the past, and couldn't, but bought again because they were really nice editions and every book deserves a second chance
- Old School, Tobias Wolff
- A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, Yiyun Li
- The Passion, Jeanette Winterson (I even own this already, but it's this adorable little 4.5" x 6" hardback edition!)
Books I bought for as late Christmas/birthday gifts for people, many of which I've read & loved
- The Gilded Chain, Dave Duncan (how come Dave Duncan's writing got worse over time, dammit?)
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- three volumes of The Canadian Review of Comparative Literature for my friend who's majoring in Comp Lit
- If on a winter's night a traveller, Italo Calvino (have bought five copies of this during my lifetime, not joking)
- The Thirteenth Tale, Diane Setterfield
- Salamander, Thomas Wharton (♥)
I really need another bookshelf. I have about four shelves' worth of books that are just stacked on random surfaces all around my room, but I'm running out of random surfaces now ...
(3) No post last Whoday because I wasn't really overly thrilled with the Lego-block Daleks, but this week essentially combined two of my favourite things, the Weeping Angels & River Song. Also, Moffat didn't make me cry this week! He did make me scream a lot, though. Six times.
5.04: the time of angels
a. Just curious, but what happens if, while staring at it the whole time, you rig a quantum-locked Angel up with explosives and blow it to pieces?
b. I adore River Song -- I love how much she's unsettling the Doctor by knowing everything about their future while he, for once, knows nothing. I think it's very interesting that we're seeing the Doctor humbled on a few occasions, this season.
c. Not sure if it's the dialogue or the delivery, but whatever it is, it's working! Love it between Eleven & River, and love it between Eleven & Amy in general.
"You haven't landed."
"Of course we landed. I just landed her."
"But, it didn't make the noise."
"What noise?"
"You know, the ... *cute rendition of the TARDIS wheezing noise*"
"It's not supposed to make that noise. You leave the brakes on."
"Yeah ... well. It's a brilliant noise. I love that noise."
d. Mmm, voice-stealing. Church Marine Bob explaining he was dead, he'd been killed, reminded me of -- on a totally unrelated note -- the Cotard delusion, which is one of my favourite things ever.
(2) I found a ton of books at my favourite annual booksale. It's held in this huge empty hangar that typically stores -- airplanes, I think, and you have to put in a lot of searching but you can get great condition paperbacks for $1 each (YES REALLY).
Books which will go on the to-read pile
- The Portable Nietzsche, trans. Walter Kaufmann (I think I'm due for a re-read of Thus Spoke Zarathustra now that I've got a better handle on Nietzsche, and kind of love the dude)
- Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
- The Door Into Fire, Diane Duane (are these even in print anymore?)
- London, Edward Rutherfurd
- The Mists of Avalon, Marrion Zimmer Bradley (flist, is this any good?)
Books I've read
- To Visit the Queen, Diane Duane
- Deep Wizardry, Diane Duane (don't you hate it when publishers switch editions halfway through publishing a series and you want the covers to match so you go and re-buy everything?)
- Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke
Books which I've tried to read in the past, and couldn't, but bought again because they were really nice editions and every book deserves a second chance
- Old School, Tobias Wolff
- A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, Yiyun Li
- The Passion, Jeanette Winterson (I even own this already, but it's this adorable little 4.5" x 6" hardback edition!)
Books I bought for as late Christmas/birthday gifts for people, many of which I've read & loved
- The Gilded Chain, Dave Duncan (how come Dave Duncan's writing got worse over time, dammit?)
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- three volumes of The Canadian Review of Comparative Literature for my friend who's majoring in Comp Lit
- If on a winter's night a traveller, Italo Calvino (have bought five copies of this during my lifetime, not joking)
- The Thirteenth Tale, Diane Setterfield
- Salamander, Thomas Wharton (♥)
I really need another bookshelf. I have about four shelves' worth of books that are just stacked on random surfaces all around my room, but I'm running out of random surfaces now ...
(3) No post last Whoday because I wasn't really overly thrilled with the Lego-block Daleks, but this week essentially combined two of my favourite things, the Weeping Angels & River Song. Also, Moffat didn't make me cry this week! He did make me scream a lot, though. Six times.
5.04: the time of angels
a. Just curious, but what happens if, while staring at it the whole time, you rig a quantum-locked Angel up with explosives and blow it to pieces?
b. I adore River Song -- I love how much she's unsettling the Doctor by knowing everything about their future while he, for once, knows nothing. I think it's very interesting that we're seeing the Doctor humbled on a few occasions, this season.
c. Not sure if it's the dialogue or the delivery, but whatever it is, it's working! Love it between Eleven & River, and love it between Eleven & Amy in general.
"You haven't landed."
"Of course we landed. I just landed her."
"But, it didn't make the noise."
"What noise?"
"You know, the ... *cute rendition of the TARDIS wheezing noise*"
"It's not supposed to make that noise. You leave the brakes on."
"Yeah ... well. It's a brilliant noise. I love that noise."
d. Mmm, voice-stealing. Church Marine Bob explaining he was dead, he'd been killed, reminded me of -- on a totally unrelated note -- the Cotard delusion, which is one of my favourite things ever.