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Cats hate reading
Mar. 21st, 2011 12:00 am
I only repost this sort of thing when it really speaks to me.
(Usually this is referenced in our house with story of the time Tally, the largest, roundest cat, decided to climb up and block the TV while I was watching Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes. This caused me to say to
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notarysojac jim -- Ooooh, he looks just like he does in the book!)
the sf books meme
Nov. 16th, 2006 09:46 pmThis is the Science Fiction Book Club's list of the fifty most significant science fiction/fantasy novels published between 1953 and 2002. (I was born in 1952, so this really covers me) Bold the ones you've read, strike-out the ones you hated, italicize those you started but never finished (you won't find much of that here - I only learned to learn do it in the last 15 years or so) and put an asterisk beside the ones you loved.
( (If I have multiple asterisks, you know what I mean - I'm trying not to fill up my friends list with punctuation) )
( (If I have multiple asterisks, you know what I mean - I'm trying not to fill up my friends list with punctuation) )
reading: the hobbit
Sep. 13th, 2005 10:13 pmI've talked before about the fact that I've never warmed up to The Hobbit the way I've always been possessed by the trilogy (probably reading it after the trilogy contributed to my disappointment) But I've been trying to reread it for the last few years and I never get past the first chapter.
I certainly don't dislike it, so what's up with that? And there are lots of small moments I really need to renew in my brain. So, I decided to start again on Saturday night, and right away I hit the wall.
Aha -- last night I decided to pick up the paperback copy that came with the last "reading" set I bought, instead of taking the large hardcover annotated Hobbit to bed. Fell asleep with my nose in the spine just moments after Bilbo picked up the ring.
The annotations are interesting - too much so, apparently, for a geek like me. I don't know if it would have gotten better further on, but the beginning is so heavily annotated that I never picked up a narrative thread.
I can't believe I didn't think of this sooner, since I had a similar problem reading the histories - had to force myself to hold all the asides till the end of the chapters.
Anyway I am barreling along now (ha ha)
I certainly don't dislike it, so what's up with that? And there are lots of small moments I really need to renew in my brain. So, I decided to start again on Saturday night, and right away I hit the wall.
Aha -- last night I decided to pick up the paperback copy that came with the last "reading" set I bought, instead of taking the large hardcover annotated Hobbit to bed. Fell asleep with my nose in the spine just moments after Bilbo picked up the ring.
The annotations are interesting - too much so, apparently, for a geek like me. I don't know if it would have gotten better further on, but the beginning is so heavily annotated that I never picked up a narrative thread.
I can't believe I didn't think of this sooner, since I had a similar problem reading the histories - had to force myself to hold all the asides till the end of the chapters.
Anyway I am barreling along now (ha ha)
