more journal-like than usual

[fahye]

This is going to be shorter than I originally anticipated because I can hear the beloved strains of the Doctor Who opening credits coming from upstairs. (My mother caved and acquired the DVD box set of Nine's season, yesterday.)

Lifeline Bookfair this morning. The books weren't Sunday-half-price as they were last time, but I still got a very impressive haul for $69.



For others

Robert Dessaix - A Mother's Disgrace
Robert Dessaix - Night Letters
Peter Høeg - Borderliners

For me

Mitch Albom - the five people you meet in heaven
Anton Chekhov - Five Plays
Don DeLillo - The Body Artist
Sumner Locke Elliot - fairyland
Bret Easton Ellis - Less Than Zero
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Beautiful & Damned
John Gardner - On Moral Fiction
Anthony Hill - The Grandfather Clock
Peter Høeg - The Woman & The Ape
Robert M. Pirsig - Lila: An Enquiry Into Morals
Chaim Potok - My Name Is Asher Lev
Tom Robbins - Another Roadside Attraction
Pernille Rygg - The Butterfly Effect
Ronald Wright - A Scientific Romance (<-- JI. TITLE MERIT.)



Then lunch, then went with mother and _leareth to the combined Canberra Grammar Schools' band concert, which was great. My high school has a very, very strong co-curricular music program, and my sister plays trumpet in one of the concert bands.

AND UPCOMING: Thai takeaway for dinner.

This has been a good weekend, alarming lack of homework completion notwithstanding.

Comments

[ryokophoenix.livejournal.com]

THEY WENT HALF PRICE LIKE 15 MINUTES AFTER YOU LEFT.

I ended up with 17 books for $36-something. Not quite as good as last time, but my god I love that fair.

Totes going to the Sydney one in November - mildly terrified at how massive I expect it to be.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

...huh. Figures :D

[ryokophoenix.livejournal.com]

I just sent an email to Anna with awesome songs - do you want me to forward it to you?

[fahye.livejournal.com]

Sure, thanks.

[ryokophoenix.livejournal.com]

...did that work? O.o

[fahye.livejournal.com]

Yup! HURRAH, GOD IS A DJ. I have been wanting that song. Thank you.

[ryokophoenix.livejournal.com]

I think I broke my email. ;_; You're going to get the same email like three times. Just so you know.

Listen to the brain song! And Slide! And dance like an idiot!

[fahye.livejournal.com]

There isn't one called Slide.

[ryokophoenix.livejournal.com]

If You Can't Dance (Slide)? It should've been an extra attachment....

[fahye.livejournal.com]

Ah! Got it. Ta.

[ryokophoenix.livejournal.com]

It is the best ever.
You don't know that girl
don't cling on her
And don't put your thing on her
Cool?

[fahye.livejournal.com]

Having just danced around my living room like a freak to God Is A DJ, I will put THAT forth as being the best ever.

Srsly.

[ryokophoenix.livejournal.com]

I will accept this judgement ONLY if you have indeed listened to Slide!

(but it is fair)

[fahye.livejournal.com]

Having duly listened to Slide, I stand by my first assertion. It's just not my type of music, really. Though still fun.

I could do this all day, you know. I have far too many icons with Starbuck on them.

[ryokophoenix.livejournal.com]

Which reminds me, did I ever manage to get Every Other Time to you? Because I totally have it. :D

*rolls in her six icons*

[agonistes]

...

Read My Name Is Asher Lev first.

It's in my top five favorite books of all time. I just. God. I cannot be coherent about it, at all.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

I've already started Another Roadside Attraction, but I shall put that second on the list!

[dopplegl.livejournal.com]

YAY ELLIS!

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

TITLE MERIT!

Gardner is intelligent and provocative, but to what degree is he right? this will stimulate me forever.