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[jenny_dreadful]

Of late, I mostly work and read. Right now, it's The Last Man by Mary Shelley. I'd just read Frankenstein and heard it this; it's set in the late 21st century, and is about the extermination of mankind through plague. I ordered it, curious about an 1820's imagining of the future, but the only technological advance is travel by hot air balloon.

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[mizzytizzy]

Meep, stalkers and everything! Too pretty for your own good, is what I think. ;)

I'm glad to know what you're up to! I think you should read Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones, it's stellar. Have you seen the Miyazaki movie based on it? The book is plottier and better in that respect but I love love love the imagery of the movie.

love you!

[jenny_dreadful]

Meep! I'll have to wear sackcloth and ashes to elude them, methink.

I haven't read the book or seen the movie, but I know of them and I want to! Have you seen Paprika? I don't know if it played any theaters there? It was beautiful.

paprika, howl's moving castle, and some other books.

[verbminx]

Y'all, I realize this is like a month old, but I did not get to see Paprika. It was only open the same week that we saw the Harry Potter movie, and I couldn't coerce anyone to go twice in some week, esp when there was some other silly thing Tom wanted to see (ah yes - Once, which is supposed to be good but which didn't attract me much). I was disappointed, because I did see Tokyo Godfathers in the theater.

I read a bunch of DWJ books this summer. I know I've told everyone a million times that Howl's Moving Castle is one of my all-time fave books; I read it early on in seventh grade, when it was pretty new. But I hadn't read much of her other stuff. Howl's actually has a sequel -- thought it's difficult to figure out how it's a sequel until about halfway through -- called Castle in the Air. I haven't really been able to get into the Dalemark books as much as I've been told I should like them, but I read all the Chrestomanci books in the space of a couple of weeks and loved them (the writing could be better in Charmed Life - I don't

Re: paprika, howl's moving castle, and some other books.

[verbminx]

Oh oh! aside from the Chrestomanci books, the books I enjoyed most of DWJ's in my read-a-thon over the last few months (since March, when I got in that accident) are the Derkholm books: Dark Lord of Derkholm (which is a social comedy/fantasy about colonialism) and Year of the Griffin (which is actually an academic comedy/fantasy: what happens when one of the characters from the first book goes away to college).

I do read books written for grown-ups, too, it's just that they mostly aren't as interesting. Mistress of the Art of Death was flawed, but still an interesting historical mystery. The Spell Book of Listen Taylor is for I don't know what age group, and a bit twee, but interesting. Broken for You - can't remember the author - is interesting too, and pretty well-written, though the plot relies a lot on coincidence. I have piles of books on my bookshelves that aren't getting read because I work too much; right now I'm trying to read short stories, but they disappoint me.

Oh, there's a recent book called Maledicte that seems to be

[photodiva02]

You're still at Border's, right?

Wow! You've got some strange customers, too.

[jenny_dreadful]

No, I'm at Whole Foods in the floral department. And yes, some strange, strange customers!

hi ,baby

[twigwonderkid]

Jenny -It's good to be able to see what you're doing. I hate that stalker thing! Be careful...love mommy

[wmblair]

hiya - when I bumped into you at the coffee bean yesterday (tuesday) I was exhausted and out of it and sort of *in need* of coffee. But then today I went there again earlier (I don't go there that often for budgetary concerns) and was there as mostly wasting time in between the doing of two things and I thought - well damn I could have said hi much better today.

Oh well. I guess from this post it seems you take a generally ANTI stalker point of view so I won't press the matter of saying 'hi how are you' in a less mumbly manner. I'm not sure why but I felt compelled to make this post saying this.

(I'm reading Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey - it is fantastic but dense and I took two rather long breaks in the reading of it already - I mention it because you mentioned reading)