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shadowkatTerribly bummed today. For numerous reasons that I won't bore people with. You could probably figure them out anyway if you've been reading my live journal. Besides after a while the details start to sound like a long incessant whine.
A brief R.I.P for Wonderfalls. I'm not surprised it was cancelled. Actually more or less saw it coming. But I do wish Fox had given it at least as much of a chance as they gave Arrested Development and Tru Calling. Hoping they will burn off the episodes in the summer. But not counting on it. Maybe Trio will pick it up for Brilliant But Cancelled??
Okay enuf depressing/ranty stuff - this is sort of a meme, but not really because my brain isn't operating at full speed this week and I keep blanking on questions or answers to them, which ahem is why I don't do memes. I get halfway through and blank...okay have no idea what to put there, guess I can't do this. So this is like all my memes, feel free to play and create your own variation. And you don't have to answer all the questions.
1. What article of clothing comforts you ?
Soft sweaters or sweatshirts. I have a cardigan sweater I've been loving lately.
2. What book or type of book comforts you? (you can list as many as you want or just a type if you've blanked on it)
Fantasy stories generally. I find Harry Potter and PG Wodehouse oddly comforting. Also the occassional
Janet Evonich novel.
3. What tv show or type of tv show? (can list as many as you want)
Buffy The Vampire Slayer for a while. Then it was briefly Joan of Arcadia (up until the last five episodes which have annoyed me). Fantasy shows usually. Dramas with a serial nature. ER used to.
[Procedural dramas like CSI and Law & Order depress me and stress me out for some reason.]
4. What types of movies or movies? (can list as many as you want)
Zero Effect. Grosse Pointe Blank. The Harry Potter movies.
5. What type of food and drink?
Pasta. Chocolate. Cookie Dough. Greek Meatballs. Apple Pie made by my mother. Stress-B Vitamin Water, Hot Tea, Hot Cider. A glass of smooth red wine, usually merlot or pinot noir.
6. Add your own category - music, poetry, whatever....
For me - music: Mozart, Aimee Mann, Sarah Mclachlan, Crash Test Dummies, The Cheiftans, and The Monkees.
But this changes all the time.
Need some book advice!!
Considering buying one of the following from Amazon:
1. Reading Lolita in Tehran
2. The Best of HP Lovecraft's Blood-Curdling Tales
3. Grave Deserts (?) by Jim Butcher
4. The Last Hot Spot by John M Ford
5. The Little Friend by Donna Tartt
6. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
7. The St. Germain books by Chelsea Quinn Yarbaro
Any other recs?
Which do you recommend? Have you read any of them? If so let me know what you think. Thanks, muchly.
A brief R.I.P for Wonderfalls. I'm not surprised it was cancelled. Actually more or less saw it coming. But I do wish Fox had given it at least as much of a chance as they gave Arrested Development and Tru Calling. Hoping they will burn off the episodes in the summer. But not counting on it. Maybe Trio will pick it up for Brilliant But Cancelled??
Okay enuf depressing/ranty stuff - this is sort of a meme, but not really because my brain isn't operating at full speed this week and I keep blanking on questions or answers to them, which ahem is why I don't do memes. I get halfway through and blank...okay have no idea what to put there, guess I can't do this. So this is like all my memes, feel free to play and create your own variation. And you don't have to answer all the questions.
1. What article of clothing comforts you ?
Soft sweaters or sweatshirts. I have a cardigan sweater I've been loving lately.
2. What book or type of book comforts you? (you can list as many as you want or just a type if you've blanked on it)
Fantasy stories generally. I find Harry Potter and PG Wodehouse oddly comforting. Also the occassional
Janet Evonich novel.
3. What tv show or type of tv show? (can list as many as you want)
Buffy The Vampire Slayer for a while. Then it was briefly Joan of Arcadia (up until the last five episodes which have annoyed me). Fantasy shows usually. Dramas with a serial nature. ER used to.
[Procedural dramas like CSI and Law & Order depress me and stress me out for some reason.]
4. What types of movies or movies? (can list as many as you want)
Zero Effect. Grosse Pointe Blank. The Harry Potter movies.
5. What type of food and drink?
Pasta. Chocolate. Cookie Dough. Greek Meatballs. Apple Pie made by my mother. Stress-B Vitamin Water, Hot Tea, Hot Cider. A glass of smooth red wine, usually merlot or pinot noir.
6. Add your own category - music, poetry, whatever....
For me - music: Mozart, Aimee Mann, Sarah Mclachlan, Crash Test Dummies, The Cheiftans, and The Monkees.
But this changes all the time.
Need some book advice!!
Considering buying one of the following from Amazon:
1. Reading Lolita in Tehran
2. The Best of HP Lovecraft's Blood-Curdling Tales
3. Grave Deserts (?) by Jim Butcher
4. The Last Hot Spot by John M Ford
5. The Little Friend by Donna Tartt
6. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
7. The St. Germain books by Chelsea Quinn Yarbaro
Any other recs?
Which do you recommend? Have you read any of them? If so let me know what you think. Thanks, muchly.
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Date: 2004-04-05 04:24 pm (UTC)Books:
I really, really recommend the ones I've read. But they're all so different. I confess I got them all from the library, though.
The Little Friend is excellent--did you read The Secret History?
I think everyone should read Reading Lolita... it makes you aware of what repression really is, and also the power of thought and art to rise above it, or at least struggle with it.
The Last Hot Time--I believe the word here is "noir." And very well done.
Neverwhere--the only thing better that I know of is American Gods.
Don't know Butcher and Yarbaro, but the list is so good, I suspect they are too.
And Lovecraft...I don't like to read him anymore, but he's so strange and so related to so many other things, it's definitely worthwhile. I know others will recommend him strongly.
Thank You
Date: 2004-04-05 08:35 pm (UTC)Yes, I did. It is actually one of my favorite books. Still haunts me. But I looked on Amazon and the reviewers over there really seem to hate The Little Friend, so I'm a little afraid of buying it. Don't want to be disappointed. Also I wasn't a fan of The Lovely Bones by Sebold - one of the few people who didn't like it and from the description it sounds like this may be similar?
Reading Lolita..
This book I've been intrigued with for quite some time now. Have read the first page at the book store. It looks like one of those few non-fiction books that reads like a novel - pulling you in. Also the idea behind it fascinates me. That book is pulling at me with invisible strings. Wicked also pulled at me with invisible strings.
Some books do that. They aren't always easy to read - but they do haunt you.
Re: Thank You
Date: 2004-04-06 06:23 am (UTC)