Black and white

[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

[mikekellner.livejournal.com]

Sorry to be late. I was going to answer this last night, put it off for a bit and here I am.

I bet I saw this on live TV. I remember watching her shows on TV as a child.

I hope you are feeling better. Sometimes you just need something to change your mindset.

And I learned a new word. Hoovering. Being a native speaker of American, I always struggle with English. We call that vacuuming. Back during the Hippie Era, Hoovering meant to inhale an inordinately large portion of the joint in one pass. Usage, "Quit Hoovering that joint, there are three other people here." ie, sucking it up like you were a Hoover vacuum cleaner.

mk

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I'm feeling a lot better, mk, thank you. I had a good day's work yesterday, and that always helps.

Technically, I should have called it 'Dysoning', because it's a Dyson not a Hoover, but old habits die hard. I still talk about 'taping' things off the telly.