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Books
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09.12.04Creative PartnersI didn't realise that Glen David Gold (author of the highly enjoyable Carter Beats the Devil) is married to Alice Sebold (author of the highly harrowing Lucky and the highly compelling The Lovely Bones). What a creative pairing.
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08.18.04Current readingMe Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris. I'm on a real American-humourist-autobiography thing at the moment - recently finished Augusten Burrough's Running With Scissors.
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07.18.04Just finished reading…Life of Pi - Yan Martel. Just finished reading this. The first half (on land) dragged, but I enjoyed the second half (at sea). Not sure what to make of the ending, though, and have to wonder how long before someone options the story for a film. Possibly not long at all.
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01.09.04Tintin a 75 ansBon anniversaire to the plucky boy reporter. Snowy/Milou is of course only 15.5 years old.
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01.05.04Book BiteThe Shiant Isles. I've been devouring Adam Nicolson's Sea Room over the holiday.
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07.29.03Remember Richard Scarry?Pete has scanned some old children's book covers he found at his mum's house. It's like a snapshot of my childhood, too - we had many of the ones he's scanned, and it's brilliant to see them all again. My favourite books from childhood, though, were probably:The Winter Bear by Ruth Craft, illustrated by Erik Blegvad In the Night Kitchen, illustrated by Maurice SendakThe Wild Washerwomen by John Yeoman, illustrated by Quentin BlakeThe Great Jelly of London by Paul Jennings (about someone using the Royal Albert Hall as a giant jelly mould)A book which I cannot remember the name of at all, ...
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12.08.02On BooksA couple of years ago, when I lived in Maida Vale, my looney flatmate (who had appalling taste in tourist tat - ethnic carvings and folk art and the like: truly shuddersome) informed me one day that she doesn't like books, because they clutter the house up. Even on the bookshelves. "So where," I inquired, "do you propose I keep them?" I shouldn't have asked. Apparently, bookshelves are for ornaments and photo frames and candles, while any books that I'm not reading at the moment (and there are many, many, many), should be packed into boxes and "stored in the ...
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11.07.02Random moment from the last few days:My mum leaving me a note on the kitchen table saying "Thanks for the stay - lovely to see you and P. I left you a few things to post up to Scotland so I don't have to lug them around Switzerland. You should try therapy, I think you'd enjoy it as much as I did - Love Jan xxx"It took two days of being slightly offended at her casual advice and interfering attitude to my current (not that concerning, quite normal actually) life stresses, for me to realise that she was actually referring to the book, which she'd left ...
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11.02.02This LondonLast night, sitting in packed Wagamama's on Lexington Street and slurping up ginger chicken udon and ebi chilli men, we were joined by a solo diner in a shirt and tie, who sat looking through his recent CD purchases while we polished off the last of the gyoza."Excuse me," I said, leaning over towards him, "do you mind if I ask a cheeky question?""Sure, go ahead", he shrugged, looking as if he was waiting for me to ask why he dined alone."I noticed you've just been to Fopp. It's just opened, hasn't it? Where is it? Can you tell us?"He ...
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08.24.02GerrawayP: What are you watching? Me: The Lost World P: Ah right. Not the Jurassic Park one? Was Bob Hoskins in that? Me: No, this is the other one - made for TV. It's by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle P: Oh right Me: He wrote the Sherlock Holmes books P: [beat] ... Really? Gerraway. Me: Yeah P: [grinning] ...That reminds me - you must tell me more about this HTML you keep banging on about... Me: [blush]Sometimes I forget that P's got a bloody good education. Oops.* Talking about HTML like that is a sort of running joke in our household. It stems from a wedding I was at a ...
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