Novels! A photo! Good night!

[pyat]

I finished novel #8 of the year today - Dream-Carver, by Erin van Hiel. This novel is particularly significant to me because it was written by my wife.

I will write a review, but not right now. I've been awake since before 4 AM and need to work-out, take a warm bath, and then settle into bed for as long as possible.

For book #9, I have been instructed to read Jane Austen. Yes, I am a bookworm with a fondness for 19th century British literature, and yet I have managed to live 34 years without reading Jane Austen. I don't know why, or how. I actually had no familiarity at all with the characters or plotline of Pride and Prejudice until I watched the Keira Knightley film version a few nights ago. I probably should have read it, first!

I'll start reading tonight, while soaking away the -30 C windchill in the bath tub.

And, here's a photo of Luba's Coffee Boutique at St. Lawrence Market. Tomorrow, I intend to try her FAMOUS HOT CHOCOLATE (HAND MADE WITH MILK).



Wait a minute... POUND? TOWN? That doesn't rhyme! That doesn't rhyme!

Good night!

Comments

[dagoski.livejournal.com]

Yay fiction! I can't wait til June. That's when I get to read fiction once again. I shall have to get copy of Erin's book. And, I still need to lay my hands on a copy of the current Albedo rules.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

I'd be interested to see what you think of both! :)

[stress-kitten.livejournal.com]

Austen is amazing for her characterizations and descriptions... but be prepared for very long sentences and a certain amount of cruelty to the common comma. Austen is most definitely not to be read aloud.

[undeadmuse.livejournal.com]

I love your Greebo icon.

[stress-kitten.livejournal.com]

Why thank you! Pratchett rocks. :-)

[undeadmuse.livejournal.com]

Yes. Yes he does.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

I have been known, on occasion, to do the same, when it comes to commas.

[anidada.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I had no problem reading P&P, S&S, and Emma aloud to nottheterritory, having never read them before. Granted, I was an actor for years and did countless cold readings, and studied lots of po-mo lit in uni, so... YMMV. :)

[zenten.livejournal.com]

Hi, I hope you don't mind that I added you. My mom redeem147 recomended I do so.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Welcome aboard!

And I think congratulations are also due?

[zenten.livejournal.com]

Yes, and thank you.

My son seemed to like looking at your LJ posts as well. Although I suspect that might have more to do with the high contrast black and white.

[kfops.livejournal.com]

My fiancee and her family love P&P, and will have P&P week-ends at their cabin sometimes. Though they by far prefer the BBC version. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112130/)

Here's to warm tubs and hot chocolate.

And pounds.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

After I read 'em, I'll start seeking out more film versions, I imagine!

[stress-kitten.livejournal.com]

The BBC version is much, much, much better than the Hollywood version... but that's to be expected. You can do so much more in 5 hours than you can in 2.

[undeadmuse.livejournal.com]

I hate Jane Austen.

And Pound and Town do rhyme, just in a different way. It's the OW sound that works for it.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Whyfor do you hate Austen?

[undeadmuse.livejournal.com]

Because they're all pampered, rich, white, and whiney. They don't have any "real" problems. I hated The Great Gatsby for the same reason. And Catcher in the Rye.

[toad-hall.livejournal.com]

love austen,

also, st. lawrence --> peameal bacon sandwiches!!! how i miss them so.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Paddington's Pump rules. :)