Comments | greygirlbeast: "I am nothing without pretend." (Still)

greygirlbeast

"I am nothing without pretend." (Still)

May 09, 2015 13:23

Since it took an hour, almost, to find the camera, edit one photo, and upload it, this is going to be very, very short. The Actual Spring Weather continues, though I fear we're going back to Cold Spring next week. It happens. We'll be having spates of Cold Spring in July, just before Green Autumn sets in. But for now, the weather is really very ( Read more... )

angela carter, books, tim burton, shirley jackson, green autumn, warmer weather, not writing, book deals, dark shadows, cold spring

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Books! ext_1285666 May 9 2015, 17:45:59 UTC

It's nice to see that I'm not the only one who goes crazy over old books. I picked up a slipcased Library of America book of James Agee not too long ago. And for $1 at the Harvard Book Store I picked up a hard cover of Xenogenesis by Octavia Butler which sells by another name name--I'm slipping--I'll remember it at some point.

It is a nice day today.

Girl Hood ext_1285666 May 9 2015, 17:47:10 UTC

I saw this movie at the Brattle Theatre last night. My eyes were wet at the end of it.

andrian6 May 9 2015, 18:22:10 UTC

Oh, excellent haul. Especially the sipcased Shirley Jackson...

everville340 May 9 2015, 18:35:34 UTC

It is fine to see that good things can come of a Book Purge.

setsuled May 9 2015, 19:02:56 UTC

The real gem, though, is Beebe's The Arcturus Adventure : An Account of the New York Zoological Society's First Oceanographic Expedition (1926), which was a mere $10 (!!!)

Oh, wow. I don't know the book but that sounds fantastic.

Since it took an hour, almost, to find the camera, edit one photo, and upload it,

Wow. I hope most of that was in finding the camera otherwise there's something unreasonable clogging the works of your photo to blog post process. I know better than to offer advice but let me know if you want help anyway.