So, I just glanced through the last couple of pages of my LJ, and I realize... HEY! I *was* posting regularly even up until 2011. Like with a lot of things, it was moving to Korea that messed up my LJ posting (and TV watching). It was such a big change for me, such an upheaval, and in fairness there are so many interesting people to meet and things ( Read more... )

So a friend was just asking me what are my favourite TV show/book/movies of the year (based on my compilation post here), and thought I'd post my response as an entry:

Favourite TV showI'd have to say my favourite TV show that I've watched this year was definitely Battlestar Gallactica (I do feel like I missed out on the fandom, boo -- but it was ( Read more... )

cleolinda has inquired about people's recommendations for good YA books. Go forth, add your recommendations, and check out everyone else's!

*throws a book party*

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I finished The Jade Peony by Wayson Choy last night, after having read it for only a few days (a quick read for me - I read slowly). It's a fiction book set at the end of the Depression in Vancouver's Chinatown, so basically it's historical fiction. Choy has done a LOT of research judging by the author's notes (and I've read - and own - one of the ( Read more... )

I'm taking a course next month on life writing, and there's a suggested reading list. I've tracked down all the books in some way (yes, I am such a Hermione), and I have another pile of memoirs, and am working my way through them.

( Life writing suggested reading list. )

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This summer I'm on a mission to read books of memoir. I started with The Rabbi's Daughter, by Reva Mann, billed as a true story of sex, drugs, and orthodoxy. I really enjoyed it, but found it disconcerting that there was no plot synopsis on the book, at least the version I had. A friend had loaned me the book, but without further description I don' ( Read more... )