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Good Ol' Interest Meme
Comment and I'll choose 3 of your interests for you to elaborate on in your journal
capracotta asked me about : camel, jazz and slash.
CAMEL:
I'm a one cigarette kind of girl.
I started smoking in my second year of high school, just as my father was quitting. Maybe it was the lack of second hand smoke? Anyway Camel was my first brand, and I'm still happily ( Read more... ) -
Lemon Cupcakes
Yesterday was a good day. I needed to relax, unwind and just talk bullshit for a while and A&L were there to help, which was even better. Thay stayed for lunch, and the afternoon passed so quickly I'm still wondering where the hours went. I've been missing them ( Read more... ) -
Jane Austen Love
Again, uploaded for a community, sharing with the flist. Completely legal, btw, no copyrights on Jane's works, ask Project Gutenberg ^__^
First some info on dear snarky Jane: here
And now the goodies! All .txt
Northanger Abbey
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Persuasion
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Emma
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Mansfield Park
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Pride and Prejudice
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Today I bought myself a gift :)
It was raining, and I was feeling down, and I just couldn't help myself, I swear!
...and it's useful, to spaek multiple languages is important today!
*grins sheepishly*
Anyway, a copy of Japanese in MangaLand is now in my possession, and after about 5 years of blabbing about it I may finally learn to say "Got Yaoi?" in Japanese. Whoopy ( Read more... ) -
Goodbye to Berlin
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
I've finally finished reading Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood, and I'm completely disappointed. You know the saying "don't judge a book by its movie"? Well, in this case the opposite is true. One of Isherwood's short stories inspired CabretNow, before ( Read more... ) -
For My Own Reference- feel free to ignore
Yup, I'm spamming. That's what happens when you've been procrastinating all day.
Mary Renault, The Charioteer
(Pantheon, 1959; Harcourt Brace & Co./Harvest, 1993)
Review by Robert M. Tilendis for Rambles.
( And after all this, the final admission: I can never seem to do justice to this book. Anything I can say is a pale reflection of something that has the capability to introduce a new dimension into the reader's life. In its basic and unassailable humanity, it is much more than a ) -
Stuck in my head
Some people say that writing is therapeutic, and I guess they're right ( Read more... ) -
Il mondo è piccolo, e non molto vario (It's a small, small world)
It's strange you know? Turin is one of Italy's bigger cities, but it always felt so small to me, and it feels even smaller when you've been attending catholic schools all your life. The faces are always the same -at the parties, at university- it seems like everyone knows everyone else, at least in passing ( Read more... ) -
Mary Renault ebooks.
Yay, I'm feeling better :D
Just a quick post to share a couple of links. I uploaded these for a community, and thought maybe the flist would be interested too.
So, let's start with some information about the author (assuming that you don't know her, which if you're into slash is practically a capital offence) -> Mary Renault Her best known work ( Read more... )
