Reading: Liquid Jade (about tea); Beyond Red and Blue (about politics); Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (interminably long fantasy, which I am about 1/3 of the way through after 2 weeks of hacking away at the underbrush.) Music: Went to BSO concert last Friday, going to another one this Friday - that would be today! - last one of this season. Baltimore Symphonic Band played at Charlestown ...
Tonight, local author Camille Alexa will be reading from her recent (FIRST!) publication, "Push Of The Sky" from 7-9pm tonight at the Beaverton Powell's location. If you're free and interested in supporting the writing scene in Portland, I would love to get the word out and see some DamnedFaces in the crowd. :} More info on the book here: http://www.powells.com/biblio/9780981924373 And a ...
...think is pretty good. I think it may have been the best one yet, although it left off on a really awful cliffhanger, and lord knows when the next book will come out :( Oh well. That was book 4 of my summer reading. I'm about 150 pages into book 5, and it's quite a long one, so it might take me a bit longer (def more than four hours) to get through... Books 1-5: 1. The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane ...
The problem with intending to do some work at home is that by the time I get home I have absolutely no enthusiasm for looking at work-related things. So instead I have made a cocktail, had some cheese and crackers, and read Stone's Fall. It seems decent enough thus far but I've been struck by the descriptions of the newspaper from which our narrator is resigning. Because Anthony Trollope ...
Fifty pages into Twilight , here is what I've learned so far. The narrative is thin and vapid, not only because of a lack of character development, but because of the dry move-style description of plain visual actions and common speech to move a scene along, bot of which are these days mistaken for realism. Thinking back to Lamb and Greene, even McCormac, they wisely skip over these mundane ...
Hipnotic is a new type of bellydance event for this area! Hosted by local bellydance troupe, Covert Bling at at the Majedski Stadium’s Jazz Cafe, Hipnotic aims to reach out to the wider community, to bring performances and an opportunity to join in, to people familiar with MiddleEastern dance, and most importantly, those who are not! If you have ever wanted to learn bellydance, but have not ...
... series, sisterhood series 41. Music → lots of different types 42. Flower → hibiscus 43. Colors → pink, blue, purple and silver 44. Movie→ Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King 45. Hobby → reading and cross stitching 46. Subjects → Spanish LAST YEAR..... I've _______ X = yes 47. [] kissed in the snow 48. [x] celebrated Halloween 49. [] had your heart broken 50. [ ] went over ...
...wonderful book called At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill. It was so hard to follow, I almost quit reading on page 92, but then I realised the rich guy was boinking the protagonist's father's ex best friend's son (yeah, confusing!) and decided, thankfully, to keep reading. Score kind of unfolded as a character to me as I wrote. I didn't know from the start exactly...
