After:
Crappy cell phone pictures, but you get the idea.
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Shelley, Austen, and Gaskell
Oh, people. Do you KNOW how difficult I'm finding it to read Frankenstein? It's very slow going. So slow, in fact, that I was less than half way through it when my book club met on Monday to discuss it. I'm not even to the second part yet. I pick it up with every good intention, but find myself distracted by the language/style/whatever. I read a sentence, then have to stop and translate it so I can understand it.
AND?
Austen is written in the same style! I LOOKED!
AND!
Elizabeth Gaskell. I love the movie versions of her novels (Wives & Daughters*, Cranford, and North and South) and would love to pick copies up to read but HOLY CATS, the LANGUAGE!
I'm stressing over this. I love the IDEA of the Shelley, Austen, and Gaskell novels but am not sure I'm cut out to actually READ them.
Please tell me I'm not the only one.
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*OK, I just read the first little bit of Wives & Daughters on gutenberg.org and it probably won't be so bad.
AND?
Austen is written in the same style! I LOOKED!
AND!
Elizabeth Gaskell. I love the movie versions of her novels (Wives & Daughters*, Cranford, and North and South) and would love to pick copies up to read but HOLY CATS, the LANGUAGE!
I'm stressing over this. I love the IDEA of the Shelley, Austen, and Gaskell novels but am not sure I'm cut out to actually READ them.
Please tell me I'm not the only one.
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*OK, I just read the first little bit of Wives & Daughters on gutenberg.org and it probably won't be so bad.
Monday, November 2, 2009
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Today I am...
... reading Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. I'm half way through it and have yet to begin to think of this as a horror story. Mostly it's just sad.
... listening to the hum of my computer monitor. I've not turned the radio on today.
... watching Wire In The Blood. Because one episode wasn't enough. I'm hooked on Robson Green and Hermione Norris. But mostly Robson Green. Holy cats, he's gorgeous.
... eating left-over coconut curry chicken.
... drinking water. Lots of it. This evening, I'll be drinking Sam Adams lager.
... making mom's shawl. Knit, knit, knit. It's getting huge and I'm on a roll and I can't wait to start the lace edge.
... waiting for a day off. One in which I don't have to call in sick to get. That'll be November 7. I'm waiting for November 7.
... wondering what I'm going to do with myself for two weeks while S is off sailing on the Atlantic.
... hoping S has a safe trip.
... thinking that stealing this idea from Badger, Blackbird, and Poppy was a grand idea.
... listening to the hum of my computer monitor. I've not turned the radio on today.
... watching Wire In The Blood. Because one episode wasn't enough. I'm hooked on Robson Green and Hermione Norris. But mostly Robson Green. Holy cats, he's gorgeous.
... eating left-over coconut curry chicken.
... drinking water. Lots of it. This evening, I'll be drinking Sam Adams lager.
... making mom's shawl. Knit, knit, knit. It's getting huge and I'm on a roll and I can't wait to start the lace edge.
... waiting for a day off. One in which I don't have to call in sick to get. That'll be November 7. I'm waiting for November 7.
... wondering what I'm going to do with myself for two weeks while S is off sailing on the Atlantic.
... hoping S has a safe trip.
... thinking that stealing this idea from Badger, Blackbird, and Poppy was a grand idea.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
The Reading Meme
Eurolush tagged me for a meme last week. She got it from The Coffee Lady.
This meme is about one of my favorite things: READING. Here goes:
1.Most memorable place/experience reading a book?
One of my most memorable reading experiences was over the summer between 4th and 5th grade. I remember wearing my awesome lime green bikini, laying in a chase lounge in my front yard totally under the spell of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. My brain was like Augustus Gloop, sucked up into the chocolate machine and jamming all the works -- I wouldn't get anything accomplished until I got that book finished.
I was, in fact, so involved in the novel that when my 4th grade teacher, who just so happened to be a neighbor of ours, rode up our gravel driveway on his bicycle I didn't hear him. When he spoke to me, I about crapped in my awesome lime green bikini.
I remember being so excited for Charlie. I also remember, when I had finished it, going into my house, looking at my mom while holding up my just-read copy and saying, "can we go to the library tomorrow so I can get another book? Because this was fun."
I wasn't a huge reader prior to that summer. But once I discovered how much fun books were? Nothing could hold me back.
2. Most unusual place/experience reading a book?
Hm. Tough one. I would have to say it was the time when I helped move a 41-foot sailboat from Detroit to Port Huron. At one point on Lake St. Clair, we were under sail, and I was reading. But what can I say? When you’re in the middle of a big lake, even when sailing, there’s not much to do. So I read.
3. Most dangerous place/experience reading a book?
Sitting on the edge of Mooney Falls, Havasu Canyon, Arizona. I’m not actually reading in this picture, I’m taking a picture of S who is taking a picture of me. But see where those three guys are standing? I was sitting there and got about a page in before I said, self, it’s too pretty here to be doing such a singular activity. So I put the book down.
Clicky to make it biggie. You should see more details.
4. Most luxurious place/experience reading a book?
· In bed, every evening before turning out the light.
· On the front porch swing of our B&B on Mackinac Island.
· In the hammock in S’s back yard.
5. Funniest place/experience reading a book? Or, add a reading-place/experience description of your own...
I’ve read in waiting rooms, at the Secretary of State, and while treating myself to lunch. I’ve read on the bus, as a passenger in a car, on our cross-country (U.S.) train trip, and on the Chunnel Train from Paris to London. I’ve read while sitting in traffic jams, on my couch, and on my front porch. When I’m on a reading binge, I carry a book with me at all times. When I’m not on a binge, I tend to think about books I’ve already read.
Sometimes I decide to read them again.
I'm tagging the Hotfessional, LouCeeL, LeahBear, and anyone else who wants to play along. Just copy and paste folks!
PS-Coffee Lady's esteemed colleague and blog friend, Bean Photo, is collecting these reading experiences. If you decide to do this meme, please email him when you have published: mail@beanphoto.co.uk.
Thanks!
This meme is about one of my favorite things: READING. Here goes:
1.Most memorable place/experience reading a book?
One of my most memorable reading experiences was over the summer between 4th and 5th grade. I remember wearing my awesome lime green bikini, laying in a chase lounge in my front yard totally under the spell of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. My brain was like Augustus Gloop, sucked up into the chocolate machine and jamming all the works -- I wouldn't get anything accomplished until I got that book finished.
I was, in fact, so involved in the novel that when my 4th grade teacher, who just so happened to be a neighbor of ours, rode up our gravel driveway on his bicycle I didn't hear him. When he spoke to me, I about crapped in my awesome lime green bikini.
I remember being so excited for Charlie. I also remember, when I had finished it, going into my house, looking at my mom while holding up my just-read copy and saying, "can we go to the library tomorrow so I can get another book? Because this was fun."
I wasn't a huge reader prior to that summer. But once I discovered how much fun books were? Nothing could hold me back.
2. Most unusual place/experience reading a book?
Hm. Tough one. I would have to say it was the time when I helped move a 41-foot sailboat from Detroit to Port Huron. At one point on Lake St. Clair, we were under sail, and I was reading. But what can I say? When you’re in the middle of a big lake, even when sailing, there’s not much to do. So I read.
3. Most dangerous place/experience reading a book?
Sitting on the edge of Mooney Falls, Havasu Canyon, Arizona. I’m not actually reading in this picture, I’m taking a picture of S who is taking a picture of me. But see where those three guys are standing? I was sitting there and got about a page in before I said, self, it’s too pretty here to be doing such a singular activity. So I put the book down.
Clicky to make it biggie. You should see more details.4. Most luxurious place/experience reading a book?
· In bed, every evening before turning out the light.
· On the front porch swing of our B&B on Mackinac Island.
· In the hammock in S’s back yard.
5. Funniest place/experience reading a book? Or, add a reading-place/experience description of your own...
I’ve read in waiting rooms, at the Secretary of State, and while treating myself to lunch. I’ve read on the bus, as a passenger in a car, on our cross-country (U.S.) train trip, and on the Chunnel Train from Paris to London. I’ve read while sitting in traffic jams, on my couch, and on my front porch. When I’m on a reading binge, I carry a book with me at all times. When I’m not on a binge, I tend to think about books I’ve already read.
Sometimes I decide to read them again.
I'm tagging the Hotfessional, LouCeeL, LeahBear, and anyone else who wants to play along. Just copy and paste folks!
PS-Coffee Lady's esteemed colleague and blog friend, Bean Photo, is collecting these reading experiences. If you decide to do this meme, please email him when you have published: mail@beanphoto.co.uk.
Thanks!
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