Read this today from start to finish in a couple of hours and don't have very much to say about it except that it's AWESOME, very entertaining (I've read it before, listened to the audiobooks as a kid.. best ever is a recording done by Christopher Plummer aka. Captain Von Trap from The Sound of Music, the voices he does are hiiiiilarious ( Read more... )

This book of 12 stories is not the first nor the last that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote of Mr. Sherlock Holmes, a figure that the doctor (his main profession) modelled after one of his university professors. The book wasn't what I expected, with no particular beginning or ending, no real continuity between stories (they sometimes reference other ( Read more... )

Well this turned out to be a very different read from The Adv. of Huck Finn! The latter is narrated from Huck's perspective in his words, whereas T.S. is third person omniscient. As a result the language in T.S. is much more artistic. There are some beautiful descriptive passages, and I found myself often looking up words in the dictionary- words ( Read more... )

The first book I've read on my lovely Kobo e-reader ( Read more... )

I asked myself a question today that I found I could not answer, and so I pose it to you: if you could choose to disconnect food from pleasure, would you? That is, say you could have your taste buds deadened, or perhaps be able to retain some sense of taste but no longer experience the actual chemical release of endorphins when eating. Taking food ( Read more... )

I find it very odd that I can nearly run a red light (thanks for stopping me Carolyn lol) and feel almost nothing.. no panic or fear or hysteria of any kind.. true that it was after midnight and not many cars were around, but still.. years ago I would have been shaking and crying at such an experience.. I feel like that's how I SHOULD react.. but ( Read more... )

Hm stressful Christmas this year, everyone seeming to be stretched thin and jumping down each other's throats much more than usual (for Christmas-time.) Odd. Can only hope it will serve as a lesson for how things will be handled next year.

Best wishes to all in the new year. New Years Resolution: become productive member of society again!

One of my favourite things to do is dream. The when-you're-asleep kind of dreaming. I feel very fortunate that I dream vividly and often have extensive memory upon waking of my nocturnal adventures. They aren't always good dreams, sometimes neutral. Sometimes it's vague and foggy, sometimes there's a crystal clear universe of complexity in which I ( Read more... )

Wow.. did I hear that right? In "Fantasia" (1980) the narrator says: "The one composition of Tchaikovsky's that he really detested was his Nutcracker Suite, which is probably the most popular thing he ever wrote. It's a series of dances taken out of a full-length ballet called "The Nutcracker" that he once composed for the St. Petersburg Opera ( Read more... )

I've never thought much about role models, but as I sit down to watch s01e01 of Xena: Warrior Princess, it occurs to me that I *worshipped* this show. You should see the collection of paraphernalia sitting in boxes back in Markham. I bet you didn't know there was a Xena magazine for a while. I had her battle cry down to an art. Interestingly it was ( Read more... )