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Sep. 1st, 2007 03:23 pmWe finished S1 of the Wire. It was, as promised, extremely good. ( only a few comments, really, but with spoilers )
I'm also in the process of catching up with Heroes, which I tended to watch rather sporadically last year; BH likes it, and wants to see it all, though, so we're watching it.
Recently read:
Neil Gaiman, Stardust. I probably would not have liked the movie so much if I had read this before seeing it. Also, Neil Gaiman really, really hates endings.
William Gibson, Spook Country. Very good, but oddly insubstantial. I liked it a great deal, depsite that, and maybe the insubstantiality was kind of the point.
Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splended Suns. At first, very like a Catherine Cookson novel, but set in Afghanistan. Not that there's anything wrong with that, and it did make me cry, but it was very like a Catherine Cookson novel, and thus felt like a great indulgence.
Recently acquired:
A new bookscase (I have room for all my books now! huzzah!)
A new mattress and box-spring, which arrived yesterday and were the cause of much consternation, in the end, even though this was something I both needed and wanted. It's just that changing your bed in such a permanent fashion is a big change, even if your old mattresses were old and mushy.
And next week, the term starts rolling.
I'm also in the process of catching up with Heroes, which I tended to watch rather sporadically last year; BH likes it, and wants to see it all, though, so we're watching it.
Recently read:
Neil Gaiman, Stardust. I probably would not have liked the movie so much if I had read this before seeing it. Also, Neil Gaiman really, really hates endings.
William Gibson, Spook Country. Very good, but oddly insubstantial. I liked it a great deal, depsite that, and maybe the insubstantiality was kind of the point.
Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splended Suns. At first, very like a Catherine Cookson novel, but set in Afghanistan. Not that there's anything wrong with that, and it did make me cry, but it was very like a Catherine Cookson novel, and thus felt like a great indulgence.
Recently acquired:
A new bookscase (I have room for all my books now! huzzah!)
A new mattress and box-spring, which arrived yesterday and were the cause of much consternation, in the end, even though this was something I both needed and wanted. It's just that changing your bed in such a permanent fashion is a big change, even if your old mattresses were old and mushy.
And next week, the term starts rolling.
