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1) I am currently rereading Guy Gavriel Kay's Fionavar Tapestry series and it's a lovely feeling, I haven't read high fantasy in SO LONG that it's like being thirteen again and tearing my way through the school library's fantasy books at the speed of light.

2) I got to recommend books to my tutoring student today, which was SO GREAT, every time anyone asks me to do this I get really overexcited and end up scribbling down a list as long as my arm. (Me: LARKLIGHT! Anything by Diana Wynne Jones! Um, Skullduggery Pleasant! Try Catherine Jinks and Terry Pratchett and Susan Cooper and OH HEY ARTEMIS FOWL &c. &c.)

3) I have never in my life been so acutely aware of my identity as a non-Radiohead fan. Huh. It's not like I've never heard their music, I've just never been able to get into it at all. (If anyone wants to convert me by throwing accessible mp3s at me, though, I'm open to it.)

3) Aaaand it's been another day of wildly bipolar Canberra weather, so much so that it's almost exciting: earlier we had a brief stint of one of my favourite types of weather, very warm and overcast, all the light in shades of grey and orange, a wind that feels almost grubby against your skin, smells of wet brick and wet eucalyptus and a sense that the storm could break at any moment but it's all right because you're inside and just watching it all happen. That's summer! That's Christmas weather. It made me feel like putting on a floaty dress and collapsing on the leather couch with a book, burrowing down and pretending that it's the holidays and there are decorations in the other room and any second now someone will hand me a glass of champagne and cranberry juice.

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A little internet fairy suggests you might like to try this: http://www.sendspace.com/file/3m40ts

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I'd definitely say though that it can take repeated listening to get into them.

Thank you, internet fairy! *bows*

OH MY GOD TODAY'S WEATHER WAS SO EXCITING INDEED!
I got to walk home in it and i was grinning like a crazy person the whole time...

I absolutely hate Radiohead and wish everyone would shut up about it.

Also, Ysabel was (IMO) a much better book than the Fionavar Tapestry series. Possibly because I hated every character in Fionavar, and really liked most of the ones in Ysabel, but still. ;)

I haven't read Ysabel! But Tigana remains one of my favourite fantasy books.

Oh, Fionavar. I've just read it too, and I had a lot of fun. It goes in the same category as Wheel of Time for me -- fun on its own merits and fun to affectionately mock and facepalm at, at once and by turns.

Only, obviously, much much shorter than WoT. This is also a plus. And yes, I entirely agree about the feeling of being thirteen and dashing through all the library's books; it's that kind of quick read. (And I think I would have really loved it at that age. Possibly I should be glad I didn't read it till now, though. A lack of childhood affection makes it much more fun to prod at the gender dynamics and so forth.)

I like some Radiohead songs, but I've never gotten into them as a group. I like the ones involving more of the pretty lyrics and singing and less of the guitar distortion. Which is not really what they chose to focus on, as I gather, so I haven't bothered to listen to their stuff in any concentrated fashion. I have fun with "Street Spirit" and "Fake Plastic Trees" and the like, though.