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Books which have touched me
It feels good to be back to LJ.
To honour the occasion, a list: favourite books. In compiling this it occurs to me how few books I really do love, but these I do (in no particular order - and it will be supplemented):
The God of Small Things _ Arundathi Roy
Shame - Salman Rushdie (and Midnight's Children and some sections of The Countess of Florence ( Read more... ) -
Longlost
I know it's been a while .....
just setting up big Mac in loungeroom for kids and homepage came up as LJ.
As I said, it's been a while.
Is this what happens when you fall in love? One day you're introducing her on LJ, a year later you've made precisely 4 entries.
Is it all all worth it.
YES. YES. YES. YES, YES. -
instant mum (just add water)
I haven't disappeared.
I'm just still getting the dry Play-doh out of the carpet and the wet from between my toes -
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I'm missing my LJ. About to emerge from the swamp of another Oncology Report (well, haematology strictly). Dying to post Derek Jarman rave.
Also preparing to move house... after trip to Sydney for workshop:
http://turiya4love.com/essence
As D. says, it's the Last Days of Chez Nous (Australians, at least, will get this reference) -
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hello : :waves:: still here, just caught up in love (mainly), yet more oncology (a good thing - repeat business) and soon-to-be-moving house (love and landlords).
I can't wait to post an entry on Derek Jarman, on of my favourite authors (if not artists and film-makers).
Haven't even had time to join facebook, which many friends are doing.
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LOVE
Anna Rogers, welcome to my blog.
I just want to say, officially, that I am completely, gorgeously, vividly, exhiliaratingly, joyously, humbly falling uncontrollably head-over-heels in love with you.
You confirm that happiness has a richer and deeper hue than I've yet experienced. You've proved to me that what I always knew was possible is -
Book of the century
“The sky was covered with clouds. A thunderstorm was breaking over Alexandria. To the east upon the icy green waters of the lake poured a rainstorm - flights of glittering needles pocking the waters; [Montolive] could dimly hear the hush of the rain above the whispers of the car. He glimpsed the pearly city through the dark cloud-mat, its minarets ( Read more... ) -
Bathrobe or no bathrobe?
A rather wankerish post I know … but I love the insights which travelling brings. Like the difference between a 3.5 and 4 star mentality. I’ve figured that in 3.5 star (quelle horreur anything less, unless, say a caravan park or camping, I mean ... it may as well be a full immersion) they really don’t want to give you anything. It’s about giving as ( Read more... ) -
Birthday meme
This is traditionally a ‘new year’ LJ meme which I thought I’d start a tradition of adapting as it’s my 40th birthday today (!)
1. What did you do at 39 that you'd never done before?
More technical film studies (rather than film theory). Dive on the Great Barrier Reef. Shed a lot of needless ambition.
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"July came on with that breathless, brilliant heat which makes the plains of Kansas and Nebraska
... the best corn growing country in the world. It seemed as if we could hear the corn growing in the night; under the stars one caught a faint crackling in the dewy, heavy-odored cornfields where the feathered stalks stood so juicy and green"
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“When spring came, after that hard winter, one could not get enough of the nimble air. Every morning I ( Read more... )