Used Bookstore, which I visited Saturday:

Our Town by Thurston Wilder
Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
I See By My Outfit  by Peter S. Beagle
Gone With The Wind by Magaret Mitchell
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

Borders this afternoon:
We Have Always Lived In The Castle by Shirley Jackson
Sea of Shadow by Fuyumi Ono*
The Idiot by Fyodor ( Read more... )

1.  Apparently my uncle has Secret Hidden Wireless that went live last night - or at least I think it's him, as the connection has his name on it.  So, I'm back online on my own computer!
2.  I have family in Maryland, apparently!  What do you call your Grandmother's Nephew's Daughter?
3.  Going to Borders today!   I'll post a complete list of ( Read more... )

The White Castle by Orhan Pamuk is very good - it's sparse and simple in style, but infinitely complex in structure.  It also contains the rarity of a misleading narrator who outright implies at the very beginning that he is, indeed, misleading.  Still, his doing so takes nothing from the book.  It's about an Italian man who is taken as a slave in ( Read more... )

When you're in a town covered in smoke, you forget there's a world outside.  Nothing amazing happens.  Everything is ordinary.  Every day feel as if you're being smothered to death.  But there's Haruko.  And she reminds me that there's a world outside.*

I have no idea what happened.**

But it was awesome.

I'm not sure I can say anything else on the ( Read more... )

  So . . .if I have all these other memes to do . . .why am I doing this one?

Because.  I feel like it.

Stolen from ethelflaed

X what you saw
O what you haven't finished/saw sizable portions
Bold what you loved
Strike for what you disliked/hated
Leave unchanged if neutral X seems neutral because it just means you saw it, nothing else.
Leave unchanged if you never ( Read more... )

I rode the ferry.  It was beautiful.  I put too much change into the telescope thing, so, when I was done with it, I noticed a guy with a little girl, and I offered the remaining time to them ( Read more... )

When I visit my Grandmother, I always visit three places.

A restaurant that specializes in (yummy) soup, the local library, and the very large three-story and awesome used bookstore.

Below are the book-shopping notes I have prepared, so I can remember what to look for, to be stored on my iPod.

( My eyes clearly are bigger than . . .my eyes? )

Coming with me to Grandma's:

Anime:
Maria Watches Over Us - All
Red Garden - 2 discs
FLCL - final disc
Stellvia - first disc

Books:
Crime and Punishment
Whose Body?
Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

My Computer(Not sure about wireless, I seem to remember her having it, but not sure if I remember correctly.  Either way, for writing and DVDs.)

Not ( Read more... )

Tuesday, 11:00am:  I'm going to therapy for a Preliminary Session.  ^^;  I'm nervous, but I think it will work out all right.  Wish me luck?

Wednesday, 3:00pm:  Learner's Permit Written Exam.  I already have one, but for Florida, and due to state hopping and moving and all sorts of stupid life drama, I never got a chance to get one for Vermont or ( Read more... )

I saw Man on Wire tonight, and while I already found Philippe Petit amusing and interesting based on NPR interviews . . .now I find him fascinating.  He's an impeccably focused man, and incredibly unique - I admire the way that he carried himself, the way he treated life, and his ideals of passion and destiny.  At the same time, he seems like the ( Read more... )