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Few belated things
May. 31st, 2008 04:08 pmMost important of which is a - now very belated - happy birthday wish to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sartorias. I carefully kept the reminder from LJ marked as unread (I find those are set at just the perfect amount of time ahead to maximize the probability of forgetting it on the day) and then ended up not managing to get near LJ until way late the day after her birthday. The wish is sincere, no matter how late!
The fête went well, though exhausting as usual. In fact, more so than usual - a combination of having fewer people helping on the other book-stall and needing to pitch in and help them out, being one down on the kids' books (Younger Daughter was home studying till she dropped), and the ongoing Headache Saga. But I pushed a lot of good books into enthusiastic hands - even got feedback from other workers who'd pre-bought books from me for their offspring during Sorting Week - and enjoyed listening to Bec do the same out of the corner of my ear on the day. Fun to see friends there too, even if we didn't get a chance to be very sociable.
( Behind-a-cut pic showing the state of our helper at the end of the day (and he's a helper we really like!) )
A quick announcements, which might or might not be of interest: I'm sure everyone but me had already heard about the post-WisCon Horror, but here's a link to a post I thought an extraordinarily positive response - courtesy ofmarthawells.
There has been reading going on too, if at a much slower rate than I'd like - last-but-one was a reread of The Sword in the Stone, which I enjoyed with a rather bemused wonder at how odd it was, and just last night finished Cory Doctorow's Little Brother. I'll have a fair amount to say about the latter soon, and will probably ramble off into matters such as personal freedom in the US, the UK (and Ireland, if anyone cares), public discussion of same, media in .... Yes, many matters on which I'm woefully lacking in knowledge. Maybe the short version could save anyone the bother: I loved it for its passionate and informed - not to mention informative- treatment of the subject matter. It's the kind of love mixed with a little frustration though, because I thought maybe it could have been an abiding classic. (Of the sort Doctorow said Nineteen Eighty-Four was for him.) (So y'all don't think I'm talking about the Canon According to Lady-Schrapnell.) (Which I'm not.) Not sure what to read next, in order to keep just the right books for MotherReader's 48 Hour Book Challenge next weekend....
sartorias. I carefully kept the reminder from LJ marked as unread (I find those are set at just the perfect amount of time ahead to maximize the probability of forgetting it on the day) and then ended up not managing to get near LJ until way late the day after her birthday. The wish is sincere, no matter how late! The fête went well, though exhausting as usual. In fact, more so than usual - a combination of having fewer people helping on the other book-stall and needing to pitch in and help them out, being one down on the kids' books (Younger Daughter was home studying till she dropped), and the ongoing Headache Saga. But I pushed a lot of good books into enthusiastic hands - even got feedback from other workers who'd pre-bought books from me for their offspring during Sorting Week - and enjoyed listening to Bec do the same out of the corner of my ear on the day. Fun to see friends there too, even if we didn't get a chance to be very sociable.
( Behind-a-cut pic showing the state of our helper at the end of the day (and he's a helper we really like!) )
A quick announcements, which might or might not be of interest: I'm sure everyone but me had already heard about the post-WisCon Horror, but here's a link to a post I thought an extraordinarily positive response - courtesy of
marthawells.There has been reading going on too, if at a much slower rate than I'd like - last-but-one was a reread of The Sword in the Stone, which I enjoyed with a rather bemused wonder at how odd it was, and just last night finished Cory Doctorow's Little Brother. I'll have a fair amount to say about the latter soon, and will probably ramble off into matters such as personal freedom in the US, the UK (and Ireland, if anyone cares), public discussion of same, media in .... Yes, many matters on which I'm woefully lacking in knowledge. Maybe the short version could save anyone the bother: I loved it for its passionate and informed - not to mention informative- treatment of the subject matter. It's the kind of love mixed with a little frustration though, because I thought maybe it could have been an abiding classic. (Of the sort Doctorow said Nineteen Eighty-Four was for him.) (So y'all don't think I'm talking about the Canon According to Lady-Schrapnell.) (Which I'm not.) Not sure what to read next, in order to keep just the right books for MotherReader's 48 Hour Book Challenge next weekend....
