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I got all these at a thrift shop for six dollars total. Comment if you've read them/heard of them/hate them.
Laurie Colwin, A Big Storm Knocked it Over. I like her nonfiction food writing enough to overcome my reservations about buying an adult mainstream novel about "marriage, friendship, motherhood, and careers as experienced by a cast of endearingly eccentric Manhattanites,"-- a genre which I usually loathe.
Mollie Hunter, The Kelpie's Pearls. Obviously out of print kid's book with an appealing title. I think I've heard of the author, but can't recall the context.
Eloisa James, Kiss Me, Annabel. The sequel to Much Ado About You.
Tove Jansson, Moominland Midwinter. I wish I'd read these when I was a kid, but I still like them. They are very odd and Scandinavian.
Astrid Lindgren, Pippi Longstocking. I remember adoring this, but who knows if I still will.
David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
coffeeandink convinced me to give it a try.
L. M. Montgomery, Mistress Pat, which is the sequel to a book I have but haven't read yet, and Magic for Marigold.
Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase. Because I keep meaning to read his novels.
Zilpha Keatley Snyder, And Condors Danced. Looks like a realistic YA novel about a lonely girl and her dog. The dog better not die.
Erik Weihenmayer, Touch the Top of the World. A memoir by a blind man who climbed Everest. I have recently become obsessed with climbing and in the last week, I re-read Into Thin Air and watched Touching the Void, even though I wouldn't personally want to do any of that sort of mountain climbing, which combines three things I detest: cold, high altitudes, and serious danger.
Jay Williams, Danny Dunn and the Fossil Cave. Oops, I already have a copy of this. Anyone want this one?
Laurie Colwin, A Big Storm Knocked it Over. I like her nonfiction food writing enough to overcome my reservations about buying an adult mainstream novel about "marriage, friendship, motherhood, and careers as experienced by a cast of endearingly eccentric Manhattanites,"-- a genre which I usually loathe.
Mollie Hunter, The Kelpie's Pearls. Obviously out of print kid's book with an appealing title. I think I've heard of the author, but can't recall the context.
Eloisa James, Kiss Me, Annabel. The sequel to Much Ado About You.
Tove Jansson, Moominland Midwinter. I wish I'd read these when I was a kid, but I still like them. They are very odd and Scandinavian.
Astrid Lindgren, Pippi Longstocking. I remember adoring this, but who knows if I still will.
David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas.
coffeeandink convinced me to give it a try.L. M. Montgomery, Mistress Pat, which is the sequel to a book I have but haven't read yet, and Magic for Marigold.
Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase. Because I keep meaning to read his novels.
Zilpha Keatley Snyder, And Condors Danced. Looks like a realistic YA novel about a lonely girl and her dog. The dog better not die.
Erik Weihenmayer, Touch the Top of the World. A memoir by a blind man who climbed Everest. I have recently become obsessed with climbing and in the last week, I re-read Into Thin Air and watched Touching the Void, even though I wouldn't personally want to do any of that sort of mountain climbing, which combines three things I detest: cold, high altitudes, and serious danger.
Jay Williams, Danny Dunn and the Fossil Cave. Oops, I already have a copy of this. Anyone want this one?
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OMG SAMURAI CHAMPLOO. *flails and flails with love* Snarky complex OT3! Beautiful animation and rambly roadtrip plot! Painstaking attention to historical detail (border checkpoints! political intrigue! persecution of Ainu and Christians!) coupled with cheerfully cracktastic anachronism (graffiti-tagging streetgangs! ninja baseball! zombies!). I cannot believe I have not waved it beckoningly at you yet. Insert here six-page rambling treatise of snarky adoration which I will spare you since you're going to watch the series anyway.
I have all the Champloo soundtracks if you want them later--they're great soothing ambient hip-hop background noise.
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I think, however, that the rest of SC can be Netflixed.
Rachel - you should have got a Click-n-Ship notice for it, because I am experimenting with printing mailing labels online from the PO. :D It'll go into the mailbox tomorrow.
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dubs are EVOL!1!the fansubs have very useful cultural notes that accompany them (MUST! REWATCH! SERIES! AND TAKE NOTES!), but the Netflix DVDs probably put the PRETTEH ANIMATION to best effect. I love the entire series although it starts off slow; I think it hits its stride around episode 12 and then becomes "holy crap MUST WATCH" viewing around episode 13-14.Because Jin is rilly rilly hot, especially when he's spoilery? But then so is Mugen when he's not thinking about it. Really, it's just a show of pretty in general.From:
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Mugen is teh hot too, although at times one must question that. *casts eyes upward at icon*
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Mugen is a dorktastic ball of lethal squee. I heart him. And heart Jin for being just as dorky when he'll never, ever admit it. And I love Fuu for smacking them upside the head.
Have you seen the trailer for the game? FLAIL FLAIL FLAIL MY POSSE IN 3D (even Momo-san!)
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A fuzzy hat with earflaps.
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The earflaps keep out the bitterly cold sounds of life.
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I'm looking forward to more of your thoughts on the series; good Champloo commentary is hard to find. :)
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So not even the tiniest little bit surprised that you have fallen for Jin. What a man, what a man, what a mighty good made-for-Rachel man.
Yes, and you know how you can tell? Because he doesn't exist.
Actually, I did once have a... thing is all I can think of to call it... with someone with certain similar qualities, but sadly, he ended up deciding that being my fuck-buddy was too much of a commitment.
Yes, I am just a little bit bitter. Moving right along...
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Jin would be terrible at relationships. ...which is sort of the point of the series, I suppose.
At least if it were Jin, he would have chivalrously escorted you to a nice secluded island to live for three years as a nun?
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random instrumentals: Tsurugi no Mai, 1st Samurai, Aruarian Dance
my favorite non-instrumental song from the series that isn't on the soundtracks:
Ikue Asazaki - Obokuri-Eemui (Obtain Bearing) (AKA That Song from episode 14)
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