I also need to read Middlemarch. It's on my list for this year.
HEE. The medals and hardness line is THE BEST.
I do love that O Pioneers! line! Awesome.
Don't think I've read Better TOgether. Obviously I need to!
I like when things start in the middle. I HATE when stories start all Sound of Music-y, with random nature shots, and then finally a zoom in to one little person. It's all very well for movies and graphic novels, but in text it makes me want to throw things. I do forgive classics, though, for starting that way. I think it's because I think about the Brontes on the moors, and how they probably didn't have access to internets and libraries full of books. Whatever books they got were precious, and read, and they were not always assaulted by millions of things to read. So a gradual introduction was like being sucked into that world. But now, because I always feel like there's a constant barrage of things to consume, I want to be IN IT ALREADY, so I can decide whether I like it or whether to chuck it. I used to never chuck anything I had started, which made it worse, because I'd start a book and not even know what it was ABOUT 50 pages in and know I had to read it anyway.
Well, *I* like the opening line to Rodeo ;o)
Hi hi hi! I'm so glad you're coming to Seattle! Lemme know your plans, and we can totally have some fun times.
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I also need to read Middlemarch. It's on my list for this year.
HEE. The medals and hardness line is THE BEST.
I do love that O Pioneers! line! Awesome.
Don't think I've read Better TOgether. Obviously I need to!
I like when things start in the middle. I HATE when stories start all Sound of Music-y, with random nature shots, and then finally a zoom in to one little person. It's all very well for movies and graphic novels, but in text it makes me want to throw things. I do forgive classics, though, for starting that way. I think it's because I think about the Brontes on the moors, and how they probably didn't have access to internets and libraries full of books. Whatever books they got were precious, and read, and they were not always assaulted by millions of things to read. So a gradual introduction was like being sucked into that world. But now, because I always feel like there's a constant barrage of things to consume, I want to be IN IT ALREADY, so I can decide whether I like it or whether to chuck it. I used to never chuck anything I had started, which made it worse, because I'd start a book and not even know what it was ABOUT 50 pages in and know I had to read it anyway.
Well, *I* like the opening line to Rodeo ;o)
Hi hi hi! I'm so glad you're coming to Seattle! Lemme know your plans, and we can totally have some fun times.