January 2012
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30 Day Book Challenge - Days 11 & 12
Day 11 – A book you hated For school, in Year 11, we had to read William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. Maybe it was the fact that it was a new school, or that my teacher looked like a goat (no, really, ask Alex!) and was an absolute pedant about imagery and symbolism, or even that I believe in equality in all things and this was really, like Catcher in the Rye (another book I loathe),...
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“I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the...”
– Gail Carriger
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30 Day Book Challenge - Days 8, 9 & 10
Playing catch up now, work and life have gotten in the way! Day 08 – Most overrated book Palo Alto by James Franco takes the prize for the recently read. I was really excited about reading a collection of intertwining short stories by him, thinking it would be in a similar style to Salinger’s stories of the Glass family, but I just ended up being disappointed. It’s like Franco wanted...
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30 Day Book Challenge - Day 7
Day 07 – Most underrated book Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger has to get my vote on this one. Most people have only read his Catcher in the Rye (Unpopular opinion: I hated it), but this is an infintely more complex volume, comprised of nine short stories. Some of the stories continue with the story of the Glass family, introduced in Raise High The Roof Beam, Carpenters and concluded in Franny &...
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30 Day Book Challenge - Day 6
Day 06 – A book that makes you sad PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions From Ordinary Lives by Frank Warren This book contains so many different secrets - uplifting, horrifying, hilarious and tragic. One of these secrets hits far too close to home for me (I lost both my parents just after my 18th birthday). It’s a picture of a beach, with the caption, “I still can’t believe...
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30 Day Book Challenge - Days 4 & 5
I was busy all of yesterday, then got to work and it was a mad rush, so here’s days 4 and 5 together!
Day 4 - A guilty pleasure book Belle de Jour - Diary of an Unlikely Call Girl by Belle de Jour and Candy Girl - A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper by Diablo Cody. Both of these books are relatively similar in content so it’s hard to split them. I find the whole sex industry...
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30 Day Book Challenge - Day 3
Day 03 – Your favourite series I’ve already mentioned most of them, but here goes:
The Parasol Protectorate (Soulless, Changeless, Blameless) by Gail Carriger
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
The Inheritance trilogy by Christopher Paolini (not read the last one yet)
Jeeves by P.G....
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So, guess who's getting up at 5:30am on the day...
Red is working on a construction site at the moment and he’s being picked up at 6:10, which means he’s set his alarm (Mad Men theme, super-loud) for 5:30. I don’t have work until 3pm and I can’t get back to sleep after being woken up by an alarm. Le sigh. Tomorrow will be a long day, and by the time I get home, he will already be in bed.
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30 Day Book Challenge - Day 2
Day 02 – A book that you’ve read more than 3 times
I have read Persuasion by Jane Austen every year since I was 16
I try to read War & Peace by Leo Tolstoy at least every two years
I keep re-reading The Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien and The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams because they remind me of my dad (he read them to me the first time)
Kitchen...
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30 Day Book Challenge - Day 1
Day 1 - Best book you read last year. As always, I can’t play favourites with books. However, there were a few stand-out examples of writing last year.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John le Carre Made famous with the younger generation by the motion picture that screened everywhere else in the world last year (and opens this week in Australia), this is a novel to be reckoned with. Set during...
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30 Day Book Challenge
Inspired by @abritishperson (my NaNoWriMo buddy), I’ve decided to do the 30 day book challenge! Day 01 – Best book you read last year Day 02 – A book that you’ve read more than 3 times Day 03 – Your favourite series Day 04 – A guilty pleasure book Day 05 – A book that makes you happy Day 06 – A book that makes you sad Day 07 – Most underrated book Day 08 – Most overrated book Day 09 – A book...
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Already-Read Reading List
Things I would like to re-read if I ever get the time/own them/unpack my boxes of books (in no particular order):
The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry
Harry Potter 1-7 by J.K. Rowling
A Series of Unfortunate Events 1-13 by Lemony Snicket
The Parasol Protectorate 1-4 by Gail Carriger
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy 1-5 by Douglas Adams
Emily 1-3 by L.M. Montgomery
The...
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littlemisscherie asked: Thank you! It took me quite while to get it like that and it still wasn't right but i guess it's practice :) how are you?
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I go out, planning to find some more pieces to revamp my wardrobe (one of my resolutions) and what happens? I buy two basic t-shirts (black and white), then head to the bookstore and proceed to spend $100 at lightening speed (they were all on the shelves right beside the door) on The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes, Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James and 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami.
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“If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.”
– J. K. Rowling (via haaaaaveyoumetjehs)
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Petal: Is she coming in today?
Supervisor: I don't really care, I have better things to do.
Petal: (to me) Does he have a thing for her?
Me: No...?
Supervisor: No, she's too little and too into church for me. I mean, who can compete with Jesus' abs?
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December 2011
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Dear supervisors, It would be really nice if someone had actually told me, BEFORE I started doing it the way it’s always done, that this script had to be dealt with a different way. Thanks to nobody telling me anything YET AGAIN, I’ve now got to go back and fix up everything I’ve done on this shift so far. In future, please try not to suck so hard at actually giving instructions...
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Christmas
This was the nicest Christmas Day I’ve had since 2005. Red and I got up early, exchanged gifts (he said my gift to him was the best and most thoughtful gift he’s ever gotten), then went to his parents’ place for breakfast. After exchanging presents and stuffing our faces with croissants, we came home and he got ready while I got together all the stuff to take to my uncle’s...