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Behold, I emerge from the Bottomless Pit of ... Living with a Clean Bathroom! I love Thanksgiving. During which I read many books, watched many movies, affirmed my belief that ellipticals are the most boring machines on Earth, and lived on peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches while the dining hall workers looked on in consternation ("What do you mean, you don't want to eat icky fake eggs for dinner?" "What do you mean, you're vegetarian on Thanksgiving?" "Here, have a fake roll." Okay, not really. But close). Major achievements include speaking to practically no-one, and sneaking out of dining hall with a piece of substandard pumpkin pie on a fancy plastic plate.

Books Read:
Rose Daughter, Sunshine (Robin McKinley)
Ella Enchanted (Gail Carson Levine)
The Enchanted Forest Chronicles 1 and 2 (3 and 4 are currently sitting on my desk) (Patricia Wrede)
The Spiderwick Chronicles, Tithe, Valiant (Holly Black)
Various, snagged from the Education section of the college library, the exact titles of which I cannot be bothered to recall
Shoebox ch. 1-18 (ask Rachel)

Movies Watched:
Henry V (Olivier version, abridged by means of the "skip chapter" button and with commentary by yours truly, because my viewing companion was bored)
Henry V (Branagh version, several days later, mostly without commentary and with no skippage whatsoever)
Star Wars, Ep. 4, 5, 6
Robin Hood: Men in Tights (to prevent dying of boredom on ellipticals)
The Prince and the Pauper (Errol Flynn version - kept wanting to yell "Are you crazy? He's obviously a creepy pedophile! Run away, little Edward, run for your royal life!")
Gormenghast (OMGmustreadwhendoesvacationstart?)


Have, perhaps foolishly, signed up for senior portrait appointment tomorrow. Must beg fashion advice from edajaram, even if I happen to think that an exclusively online yearbook proves that the digital age does, in fact, suck. Alas, cannot go around with "Arthur Dent" sign pinned to clothing, as was in the know at the time of debate and decision-making. Oh well. Nobody ever gets the allusion anyway.

Comments

[kayselkiemoon.livejournal.com]

Rose Daughter, Sunshine (Robin McKinley)
Ella Enchanted (Gail Carson Levine)
The Enchanted Forest Chronicles 1 and 2 (3 and 4 are currently sitting on my desk) (Patricia Wrede)
The Spiderwick Chronicles, Tithe, Valiant (Holly Black)

EEP!

I am so pleased! erm, which of these were first reads? all of them? if so, I am extra SO PLEASED. but either way Super Cool!!! ^_^ ^_^ ^_^
and I haven't read the Spiderwick Chronicles yet - have you given them back to Rachel has she leant them out yet I thought I might drive up this friday I could nab them. ?

re: thanksgiving, Fiona you crazy loon why did you stay on campus??? you could've come to visit ME!!!!! ack why didn't I call you?? although I presume you turned down many other offers so hey, but still. rats. well, I'm glad you had fun. ^_^

[kayselkiemoon.livejournal.com]

oh, and Enchanted Forest 1 and 2 are favorites, I have read those ones SO MANY times I lovelovelove them. love the others too, just read them a bit later, I was given the first two together as a present when I was in what third grade and devoured them. ^_^

I am currently rereading Rose Daughter. and loving it, but really I love each and every work Robin McKinley has written so that's no surprise. you've read Beauty, right? what are your thoughts on Rose Daughter?

Did you like Valiant? I lovelovelove it, just as much as Tithe but different. ^_^

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Rose Daughter was... I guess more interesting than Beauty, although I liked the references to Euripides in Beauty. I need to re-read Rose Daughter because I just picked up where I'd left off last time I was hanging out in Pandemonium. Valiant was cool, but I liked Tithe better (I admit it, mostly because of Roiben, and because of the skin-peeling scene - so fabulous!).

[kayselkiemoon.livejournal.com]

ok, in my heart of hearts I like Tithe better because I identify ever so much more with Kaye than with Val. it was easier to fall for Roiben, but I love Ravus too. ^_^ but as books I love them both. ^_^

Beauty was the first Robin McKinley work I ever read, so it holds a special place in my heart. <3 lovelovelove. have read it ever so many times. and the books, the libraries, her love of horses and animals and everything, well I've always identified extraspecialmuchly with Beauty. but I love Rose Daughter for its very own self. *nods* ^_^

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Your assumption is correct, but I appreciate the sentiment all the same. :) All were first reads except Dealing with Dragons and Tithe.

[kayselkiemoon.livejournal.com]

oooh isn't Searching for Dragons such wonderful yummyness? I adore Mendanbar. he and Cimorene are so cute!!! ^_^

[high-tower.livejournal.com]

ooh was it the BBC Gormenghast? (not that I think there is any other, but the one with Jonathan Rhys-Meyers?) I fell in love with that when I saw it on tv when it first came out. I've been trying to read the books for a long time, but the library only carries the middle book, and I can't afford the big 3 in 1 book.

But did you like it? love it? Love Steerspike?

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SO was the BBC version. Am in love. Am forcing Melanie to watch the first episode as we speak. And Steerpike? So evil! So good! So... so... *flails* I get this wonderful shudder of horror every time he smiles.

[nimoloth.livejournal.com]

Is The Enchanted Forest book an odd sort of twist on damsels and dragons? I think I've read one of them, but I'm not sure.

In the Point Fantasy collection, I picked up Brog The Stoop the other day, mainly because it has a Brian Froud cover!

[timeripple.livejournal.com]

The first one certainly is, and the others are, well, sequels. Brog the Stoop looks interesting, and the cover is pretttty!