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salineaHappy birthday to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
_sasayaku ! *kisses* May you have a great day
Happy first day of Hannukah to my Jewish friends
Happy christmas to my Christian friends
and happy vague oecumenist winter holiday to the others !
*throws kisses around*
Went to see Narnia on Friday, which was a bit disapointing.
It was good, too. I especially liked the children and their dynamics (then again I'm a sucker for family - and especially sibling - drama) however the world of Narnia itself and the atmosphere of the story totally failed to awe me and to make me feel any kind of feeling of wonder and magic. Maybe I was both too spoiled from seeing lots of people talking about it over the years without having myself read the book to get the nostalgia and amazement of it.
Bought O'Brian's Master and Commender fromschemingreader's recomandation. It was good, but boy was it difficult to read. Between lotsa technical terms and the historical language, I'd never had so much trouble reading a book in English since Mary Gentle's Book of Ash. I quite enjoyed the wittiness of it, and the characters were very vivid and likeable (even in the main character was so cluelessly adorable that I had to start vizualizing him as a wide-eyed uke if you see what I mean) The story somewhat surprised me by its lack of plot. Not that lots of things didn't happen, just that they were more along the lines of : stuff happens, then other stuff happens, then other stuff happens, with no feeling of overeaching plot or climax.
Also bought a new book by Barbara Hambly : Sisters of the Raven, which I haven't started yet.
Last week I got myself the lattest XXX holic and Tsubasa, which were respectively book 6 and 7. Tsubasa is soon going to reach the part which I hadn't yet read in scanlations, and Holic is already there. I still adore Holic even if I still don't like Watanuki, he does show some redeeming qualities and I found him sweet in some of those chapters. I also got vol 15 of Fruit Basket (Mmmm, Akito) which was very interesting, I need to buiy all the Furuba tomes soon to re read them, too. And vol 12 of Nana, which was good as ever. I'm forseeing a peculiarly tragic ending for this manga. And very little yuri, sadly. At least the Reira x Shin is still the cutest thing ever.
And that's all for now. Gotta prepare for the wedding this evening.
_sasayaku ! *kisses* May you have a great dayHappy first day of Hannukah to my Jewish friends
Happy christmas to my Christian friends
and happy vague oecumenist winter holiday to the others !
*throws kisses around*
Went to see Narnia on Friday, which was a bit disapointing.
It was good, too. I especially liked the children and their dynamics (then again I'm a sucker for family - and especially sibling - drama) however the world of Narnia itself and the atmosphere of the story totally failed to awe me and to make me feel any kind of feeling of wonder and magic. Maybe I was both too spoiled from seeing lots of people talking about it over the years without having myself read the book to get the nostalgia and amazement of it.
Bought O'Brian's Master and Commender from
schemingreader's recomandation. It was good, but boy was it difficult to read. Between lotsa technical terms and the historical language, I'd never had so much trouble reading a book in English since Mary Gentle's Book of Ash. I quite enjoyed the wittiness of it, and the characters were very vivid and likeable (even in the main character was so cluelessly adorable that I had to start vizualizing him as a wide-eyed uke if you see what I mean) The story somewhat surprised me by its lack of plot. Not that lots of things didn't happen, just that they were more along the lines of : stuff happens, then other stuff happens, then other stuff happens, with no feeling of overeaching plot or climax.Also bought a new book by Barbara Hambly : Sisters of the Raven, which I haven't started yet.
Last week I got myself the lattest XXX holic and Tsubasa, which were respectively book 6 and 7. Tsubasa is soon going to reach the part which I hadn't yet read in scanlations, and Holic is already there. I still adore Holic even if I still don't like Watanuki, he does show some redeeming qualities and I found him sweet in some of those chapters. I also got vol 15 of Fruit Basket (Mmmm, Akito) which was very interesting, I need to buiy all the Furuba tomes soon to re read them, too. And vol 12 of Nana, which was good as ever. I'm forseeing a peculiarly tragic ending for this manga. And very little yuri, sadly. At least the Reira x Shin is still the cutest thing ever.
And that's all for now. Gotta prepare for the wedding this evening.
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Date: 25 December 2005 10:11 pm (UTC)Mazel tov on the wedding and happy Hanukah. We are going to one or two Hanukah parties this evening, depending on how my two year old holds up.
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Date: 26 December 2005 01:15 am (UTC)Got it Friday. 3 days' perfect to read a book. Anything more and it keeps going and going, a chapter every now and then, and it's dreadful to finish it. I've got 3 books started like that that I'm struggling to finish because if I don't have the time to devour it, I can't keep the fact and names straight and the passionate tension, if you see what I mean ^^
(I had friday and thursday afternoon off from work, it helped)
The book is written in a very high register, many native speakers of English have thrown in the towel on it.
Yeah, I'm feeling a bit bad, because I'm sure I missed out a lot of things, and misunderstood plenty of the funny stuff too.
At least I got the funnies that were in French ^^
Did it bother you at all that they were fighting the French? Though O'Brian's characterization of the French isn't negative at all.
Oh, absolutly not. Not from the British and Irish. You can't begrudge them their nationnal sport, the poor sods have so little fun to have in their countries. We have decent cooking, they mock us. It's part of the balance of the universe
I must defend the seeming lack of plot because there are 19 more books in the series--each novel is less a novel than a chapter. Oh the complexity.
I see. That does make me want to read more soon ^^
Have fun to your Hannukah parties and I hope your son (I think ?) holds up well ^^