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[altariel]

So I had feeling down the past couple of days, and then today several nice things happened, and now I feel better and I've hoovered. That's all human life there that is.

Over the weekend, I read Philip Reeve's brilliant Here Lies Arthur (thanks steepholm for the rec) and must heartily recommend: Arthur for a turbulent age of spin and warlords. I have to say I didn't much enjoy Mortal Engines: are the others in that sequence worth reading, o my flisters? They are waiting to go back to the library unread, and since they're due back on Tuesday, I doubt I'm going to get through, particularly not when I'm absorbed in Sabriel by Garth Nix (thanks the_wild_iris!). I like Nix's strong narrative style: so many books these days read as if they've come from visual imagination, but this is wordy and doesn't have much dialogue. Next up, Le Guin's Annals of the Western Shore.

Tomorrow I'm going to answer this meme for which I was tagged by forodwaith, but in the meantime, here is Judy Garland belting out a sad song, because when you're blue, there's nothing better than joining in with someone belting out a sad song.

PS I wanted Jessie to win I'd Do Anything. Stupid British public!

Comments

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

*hugs* for feeling down. I am glad that there were nice things happening today.

Judy certainly knew how to deliver a song. I am impressed at you being able to belt along with it - it seemed a tricky song to do that to to me. Also, that is a lovely frock she is wearing.

I was baffled by Annals of the Western Shore, but isn't that Gifts, Powers and Voices? There's a lot of wonderful things going on in those books - I hope you enjoy them muchly.

Also, I might do the meme if you feel like passing it on.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

See me slowly catch up with my LJ inbox.

When I say I belt along with Judy, I sort of roughly hit a small proportion of the notes. I can't do the middle bit at all, that's far to hard.

Yes, that's apparently the collective title for Gifts, Powers, and Voices. I was planning a reread of The Dispossessed next, and then I think I'll tackle these three.

On the song meme... How about J for Joy?

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

And as soon as you said J, my brain has not been able to come up with one single song. It has however provided many starting with M. Stupid brain.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Then you shall have M for Merriment.