reading a leaf from wanderlight's book over her shoulder
i. At the moment, I am finding things a little difficult. Nothing in particular has happened; I just seem to be struggling a little.
End of angst.
ii. I have discovered that caffeine in the morning has absolutely no affect on me. This is bad.
ii.a. Especially when I woke up at six o'clock this morning. Approximately.
ii.b. I only know this ( Read more... )
End of angst.
ii. I have discovered that caffeine in the morning has absolutely no affect on me. This is bad.
ii.a. Especially when I woke up at six o'clock this morning. Approximately.
ii.b. I only know this ( Read more... )
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Okay, I now have a hell of a lot of books I need to read! Mainly Iain Banks/Iain M. Banks.
Four days for Les Mis? Four days? And that was too long?! Anto, you're officially mad. (But I mean that in a good way, i.e. you are nice mad... etc etc.)
We have the film of 2001: A Space Odyssey, but I haven't seen it yet... only clips.
Um... yes! I think that's all I was going to comment on. Gutenbye!
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*hugs* Thanks. It's all okay, mostly; I had a pretty huge build-up of work to plough through that I couldn't do, and I was feeling really rather out-of-sorts...
Okay, I now have a hell of a lot of books I need to read! Mainly Iain Banks/Iain M. Banks.
:D:D:D If you want to borrow any of them, then please don't hesitate to ask... :D
And also, check out the icon. Hat! :D
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I haven't read Perdido Street Station yet, although I do have it, and it's definitely in the 'I must read this' pile. I started it once, but I couldn't devote the necessary time to unpick everything: not only is it a huge novel, physically, but it's so dense, textually that it demands proper attention.
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And complicated characters and plots and world-building too. Not to mention his geography...
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I mean, er, whoops? :p
*shrugs* I just tend to find my angst a bit boring and irritating, because, frankly I'd rather be doing other things than moaning about how terrible my life is, for example doing something about it; but then again I have recently come to the gradual conclusion that the fact that the entire idea of asking what the meaning of life is is entirely meaningless and preposterous, and that that it really rather wonderful and am far too cheerful about it; if I have broken things, I'm sure they will either fix themselves or cease to exist and as I shall then also do so I shall never be able to be sad about it.
So I shall read a book instead. :D
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Le Gaspeth.
To be fair, I have been on a tammy kick recently, which usually results in more than one book per day.
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Although I did manage to miss one out in my list (Straw Dogs) and also managed to misnumber it, so I'm three behind you...
How did the reading go, by the way? :D
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And you STILL haven't read P&P. I may never forgive you or you might have to give me chocolate.
The reading was lovely - only one Year 8 turned up, apart from the Library Committee 6th formers, so I went to sleep on a beanbag listening to the Wind in the Willows and Caroline doing ogre voices.
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I have just finished a book that Mrs Maisey leant me on Hume. :D Two to go...
(And am half way or so through Point Counter-point and fifty or so into Counting Sheep, and will probably read either The Tempest or MacBeth this weekend; plus I have that Tim Burton poetry book to read...
(I don't usually count poetry books on the list, because they can be very short - Raising the Iron, for example, was so small that it was bound with staples, and I figured that it would be cheating - but if it's a particularly interesting one I'll count it. That said, Wendy Cope didn't make the grade, although I like her; but gnaa.
Plays are short too, although dense enough to count I think, especially when they're Shaxberd... :P)
And you STILL haven't read P&P. I may never forgive you or you might have to give me chocolate.
I could stroke your hair?
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Are you doing alright now, though? If there's ever anything you want to talk about, my inbox is here for you. Strange as that sounds. *hugs*
Re. ii., all I have to say is :DD.
asdfjlsadfjladsf you got to touch a Mieville book before it came out. And was involved in the copy-editing stage. And now you have a signed copy. I HATE YOU. :p Admittedly, I am a bad China Mieville fan; I loved his short story collection and King Rat, but have not read Perdido Street Station yet, and judging from your review, my life will be far less fulfilled if I don't read it. So I shall.
If you like your fantasy dark and gritty and uncompromising and real, if you like your prose vivid and eloquent and inventive, if you like to see an author pick up a ball and then not only run with ( ... )
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Nah; I just have a very short attention-span when it comes to things that aren't either (a.) shiny, (b.) glowy, or (c.) books. :P
Are you doing alright now, though? If there's ever anything you want to talk about, my inbox is here for you. Strange as that sounds. *hugs*
*hugs back* (I'm okay now, although I could do with a week of a couple of hours more sleep. :P And thank you. :-) [And if you ever want me, send a message to anthon1 [at] ntlworld [dot com] or ruathain [at] gmail [dot com] - quite why I'm still running both of them is a mystery long lost in the depths of my cerebral cortex, but I am, I check both of them. :-) ])
asdfjlsadfjladsf you got to touch a Mieville book before it came out. And was involved in the copy-editing stage. And now you have a signed copy. I HATE YOU. :p
It's only a signed cover, and I don't actually have a copy yet, but I KNOW. :D:D:D:D If you can ever get work experience at a publishing house, it is a ( ... )
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Do. Do! I didn't like short stories at all until this year, actually, when I read Fragile Things (& re-read Smoke and Mirrors), and since then, I've discovered that they fulfill somehting in me that longer stories just don't.
1 =/= 4; there is a reason that words and not numbers are your specialty, it seems. :p I do fansy illicit initials, so I think I will give one of those three sci-fi books a try when (if) I can find them. Merci. xD (Poetry?!?!)
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The only problem with short stories is that they do have to be better than novels; a bad or mediocre short story won't have enough that's good in it to justify having read it, wheras a longer piece of fiction is far more likely to have something in it that you'll rather like. That was the problem with the Alexei Sayle short stories I read, I think - as there was no room for developement, the fact that I didn't like the style and didn't particularly appreciate the subject (in most cases) meant that the stories were pretty much lost on me.
(Seems rather counter-intuitive, but there you go...)
And Neil Gaiman short stories are like real soup.
1 =/= 4; there is a reason that words and not numbers are your specialty, it seems.
Which is bad, considering that I'm currently supposed to be doing my maths homework ( ... )
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