Sunny Lazy Day

[eredien]

Went to W. and E's engagement party last night. Wound up talking with many new and old friends; any party where people spontaneously break into four-part harmony is fine with me. Had excellent writing day; 1 haiku was properly punctuated (time to properly write haiku: 25 minutes. Time to properly punctuate haiku: 1 hour) and had lovely conversation with rush-that-speaks and gaudior about influences, fantasy, Faerie.

Decided that my Faerie is two things: sitting in a warm, dim-lit, fireplace room, watching the cold and snow blow under the hedgerows and settle softly; also that it is the feeling one gets after reading a book that you are afraid of--you shudder, throw it against the wall, tiptoe in a wide circle around where it landed, don't get the courage to pick it up for a week.

The first is not nearly as cozy as it should be: there is no sound, and you can feel the leak of cold into the room through the panes.

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Today, a LARP. I am glad it is the last one of the semester, because I have been feeling like a bad LARPer--and, by extension, a bad storyteller--this past semester. Perhaps LARPS just aren't my style--though I do love acting out characters, and I think I might miss that.

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Did not buy the huge omnibus edition of Peake's Gormenghast novels with tipped-in plates of the author's sketches and brilliant critical essays in the back even though I had a bookstore discount; eventually will give in and sell vols. 1 and 3 on Amazon or abebooks to fund my addiction.

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Very much in a stay-in-and-write mood though it is finally a brilliant and gorgeous spring day outside and I need to unpack my books at least, and possibly plant flowers in a window-box, and other things.

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Should review the following books I have read in the past month:
The Russian Debutante's Handbook
Adam's Navel
The Elements of Typography
Life is So Good
The short story Winterfair Gifts
The handbook on the care and feeding of Guinea Pigs

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Books I need to finish reading:
Paperweight, Stephen Fry
House of Leaves
Les Miserables, Victor Hugo

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Summer reading project:
The Brothers Karamazov

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Summer life project:
Balance
Writing

Comments

[marmota.livejournal.com]

Woohoo, Gormenghast!

[aneslin.livejournal.com]

in les mis, unless you have a real interest in the beneditine order or the paris sewers, its okay to skip a bit

brother K is increadible, provided you like doestevsky. THe all consuming darkness with the little shaft of light.

If you haven't yet, I still suggests things by tim powers, especially the anubis gate

as for me, I have to prepare for a thesis

[eredien]

Sadly, I think I have an interest in the Paris sewers. I read halfway through and then stopped two years ago; I loved it and am determined to fiish. Benedictine orders, eh, I can take or leave.

The problem I ran into the last time I tried to read Brothers K was twofold--I got distracted by the Russian patronymics, and didn't have an attention span at the time.

I read Declare by Powers this winter and loved it; Anubis Gate when I have time.

[eredien]

Ah, are you a fan?

[aneslin.livejournal.com]

But Hugo was writing in exile while Napolian the third was redesigning paris. Its like the whale hunting chapters from moby dick- It isn't even right!

[kaypendragon.livejournal.com]

Nice to hear from you!
Did I ever get your address? I think no...

[esgalaith.livejournal.com]

Ah! I LOVE The Brothers K . . . wonderful wonderful wonderful- But I adore Dostoyevsky, so there you have it. Apparently I'll eventually outgrow it and enjoy Tolstoy more, but at the moment Dostoyevsky reigns supreme.

[eredien]

Are you still in Binghamton? If yes let me know and I will write you there. If not let me know where I should direct your postcard.

[kaypendragon.livejournal.com]

I leave on Wednesday for Lancaster PA. There'll be a forewarding address though, so it's not a problem if you send it here.