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Oct. 23rd, 2021 06:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darchildreThings:
- My normal dinner is toast + cheese + raw fruits and veggies, but that is Too Cold for the current weather, so tonight I had toast and miso soup with tofu and veggies instead. This was an excellent idea and I am now planning to just continue making miso soup every night till it's too warm again.
- I'm rereading some of my John Bellairs books for the first time in a long time. You guys, they are still really great. I just finished The Curse of the Blue Figurine and it is delightfully spooky. Also, rereading them reminds me of how much of a revelation John Bellairs' writing was to me as a child. I read my first Bellairs - The House with a Clock in its Walls - in third grade and I remember it being the first book I'd ever read where the characters had distinct voices. They didn't all talk the same way. And they didn't all use proper grammar, and sometimes the spelling of the dialogue reflected what people actually sound like, rather than the way the words are supposed to be spelled! I'd never seen that before. And the casual domestic details that make the characters seem real - there's a bit in Blue Figurine where Johnny's Grampa is just casually giving Gramma her insulin shot because she has diabetes. This isn't a plot point - it's not important that it happens. It just happens, because they're people who have lives outside of the ghost story. It's great! Anyway, I'm starting another one tonight. I may have to start purchasing all the ones I somehow don't own.
- In other spookytimes news, tonight's entry on my movie schedule is Mad Love with Peter Lorre and Colin Clive and I'm terribly excited to rewatch this extremely goofy movie. So far in my revisiting-1930's-and-40's-horror journey, I have watched Black Friday, The Raven, and The Mummy. All good times.
- Next weekend, my siblings and I are getting together for a board game day. I have to figure out which is my spookiest boardgame.
- My normal dinner is toast + cheese + raw fruits and veggies, but that is Too Cold for the current weather, so tonight I had toast and miso soup with tofu and veggies instead. This was an excellent idea and I am now planning to just continue making miso soup every night till it's too warm again.
- I'm rereading some of my John Bellairs books for the first time in a long time. You guys, they are still really great. I just finished The Curse of the Blue Figurine and it is delightfully spooky. Also, rereading them reminds me of how much of a revelation John Bellairs' writing was to me as a child. I read my first Bellairs - The House with a Clock in its Walls - in third grade and I remember it being the first book I'd ever read where the characters had distinct voices. They didn't all talk the same way. And they didn't all use proper grammar, and sometimes the spelling of the dialogue reflected what people actually sound like, rather than the way the words are supposed to be spelled! I'd never seen that before. And the casual domestic details that make the characters seem real - there's a bit in Blue Figurine where Johnny's Grampa is just casually giving Gramma her insulin shot because she has diabetes. This isn't a plot point - it's not important that it happens. It just happens, because they're people who have lives outside of the ghost story. It's great! Anyway, I'm starting another one tonight. I may have to start purchasing all the ones I somehow don't own.
- In other spookytimes news, tonight's entry on my movie schedule is Mad Love with Peter Lorre and Colin Clive and I'm terribly excited to rewatch this extremely goofy movie. So far in my revisiting-1930's-and-40's-horror journey, I have watched Black Friday, The Raven, and The Mummy. All good times.
- Next weekend, my siblings and I are getting together for a board game day. I have to figure out which is my spookiest boardgame.
