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darchildreThings:
- I'm leaving for the HPL Film Festival tomorrow! I am so excited!
- Sometimes, I do this thing where I think I want to read a book but not now, so I put it on hold but suspend the hold for a month. Two of those books came in today and I have no idea why I wanted them, or where I heard of them. Was someone blogging about them? Was I reading through the HWA suggested reading list? I have no idea.
- Whether or not they will actually get read remains to be seen. I still have two more books of A Song of Ice and Fire to read and don't really seem to be losing momentum yet. This keep surprising me a little and then I remember that the first time I read Game of Thrones, I did so in essentially one day. (No one was home but me and I had nothing else to do. I assume I ate at some point during this crazy reading binge, but I have no actual memory of doing so. However, it was several years ago, so I may have simply forgotten.)
- For the past several nights, my bedtime audiobook has been The Valley of Fear, aka The Sherlock Holmes Novel Nobody Cares About. You guys, I love Valley of Fear. I wanted to blame this on the BBC radio adaptation, which is great and, to my mind, the best of their adaptations of the four novels. But honestly, I think I love Valley of Fear purely on its own merits. I actually find the enormous flashback in America really interesting - Pinkertons are so much better than random evil Mormons. Plus there's code breaking and Moriarty and "'I am inclined to think—' said I. 'I should do so,' Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently." which I still find hilarious and the surprise!downer ending which is oddly pleasing. Also this cover, which is one of the best things ever. Seriously, I own the whole canon in a couple different editions and I still want to buy that just for the cover. (I would buy the whole canon again if the books got covers like that.)
- I'm leaving for the HPL Film Festival tomorrow! I am so excited!
- Sometimes, I do this thing where I think I want to read a book but not now, so I put it on hold but suspend the hold for a month. Two of those books came in today and I have no idea why I wanted them, or where I heard of them. Was someone blogging about them? Was I reading through the HWA suggested reading list? I have no idea.
- Whether or not they will actually get read remains to be seen. I still have two more books of A Song of Ice and Fire to read and don't really seem to be losing momentum yet. This keep surprising me a little and then I remember that the first time I read Game of Thrones, I did so in essentially one day. (No one was home but me and I had nothing else to do. I assume I ate at some point during this crazy reading binge, but I have no actual memory of doing so. However, it was several years ago, so I may have simply forgotten.)
- For the past several nights, my bedtime audiobook has been The Valley of Fear, aka The Sherlock Holmes Novel Nobody Cares About. You guys, I love Valley of Fear. I wanted to blame this on the BBC radio adaptation, which is great and, to my mind, the best of their adaptations of the four novels. But honestly, I think I love Valley of Fear purely on its own merits. I actually find the enormous flashback in America really interesting - Pinkertons are so much better than random evil Mormons. Plus there's code breaking and Moriarty and "'I am inclined to think—' said I. 'I should do so,' Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently." which I still find hilarious and the surprise!downer ending which is oddly pleasing. Also this cover, which is one of the best things ever. Seriously, I own the whole canon in a couple different editions and I still want to buy that just for the cover. (I would buy the whole canon again if the books got covers like that.)
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Date: 2013-05-03 04:18 am (UTC)