The blog is on the homepage now: http://www.nijomu.com/

So I'm going to stop posting to this Livejournal page. I wanted to consolidate everything, so I downloaded Wordpress and I put a blog up on my own website. You can view it here:

http://www.nijomu.com/blog/

See you there!

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Tamara Drewe, the new story by Posy Simmonds, has come to an end. It's been serialized in the London paper, The Guardian Unlimited. Unfortunately, they haven't kept the whole thing on-line. But the last thirty pages (of 110) or so are there. And here's the story up until episode 86:

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This was my favorite song as a kid. Listening to it after all these years, I feel goosebumps and a catch in my throat.

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Which wife of Henry the Eighth are you?
Your Result: Anne of Cleves

You are Anne of Cleves, fourth wife of Henry. Though you may seem boring and unattractive to some, you will be remebered for your cleverness to save your own neck!
Jane Seymour

Catherine Parr

Katherine of Aragon

Anne Boleyn

Kathrine Howard

Which wife of Henry the Eighth are you?
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The first part of page 24 of Carnivale:


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The City by Franz Masereel
published by Dover Books
$7.95 U.S.A.

Franz Masereel is probably best known as the Belgian woodblock artist who created Passionate Journey. While I loved that book when I read it in my early twenties, The City strikes me as the deeper and more mature work. It was published later, 1925 versus 1919, so perhaps this partly ( Read more... )