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happy birthday, katie!
Feb. 21st, 2004 02:30 pmHappy birthday, dear ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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the_oscar_catFeb. 21st, 2004
I took t'small son to London for the day and had a wonderful time. Highlight: going to Carluccio's near Oxford Circus and having 'children's coffee' (thick hot chocolate served in an espresso cup).
We entered a bookshop and before I knew it, I had purchased four books. Two of them are by Mary Renault, because everyone's been swooning on about her slashy Alexander. And then my eye fell on a pile of the new David Mitchell novels lying next to the till, and I got heart palpitations.
Currently, there are only two (non-fanfic) authors who give me palpitations and whose books I have to buy in hardback because I simply cannot wait for the paperback and despite hating to read or shelve hardbacks -- and they are Ann-Marie MacDonald and David Mitchell.
On the train down, I started doing a narratological analysis ofazewewish's "In the Name of Research" and novanumbernine's "Bordertown". It is very interesting, actually, and even more rewarding than I had expected. I'm using Genette's terms and applying them systematically, and am about 1/3 of the way through. It's helping me come to grips with the narratological concepts, and it's also very interesting to read fic without evaluating. Analysis is not like criticism or beta; it's more about describing than prescribing or judging. And I'm glad I happened to start out with two very different authors and very different styles. Will post my analysis when I'm through!
Not much else to report except that I'm feeling rather cheerful, will rent a romantic comedy from Blockbuster tonight (despite considerable familial resistance) and am still sitting about unshowered and undressed at 2.47 pm! Heh.
Butblythely thinks I look like Kajol so all must be right with the world.
We entered a bookshop and before I knew it, I had purchased four books. Two of them are by Mary Renault, because everyone's been swooning on about her slashy Alexander. And then my eye fell on a pile of the new David Mitchell novels lying next to the till, and I got heart palpitations.
Currently, there are only two (non-fanfic) authors who give me palpitations and whose books I have to buy in hardback because I simply cannot wait for the paperback and despite hating to read or shelve hardbacks -- and they are Ann-Marie MacDonald and David Mitchell.
On the train down, I started doing a narratological analysis of
azewewish's "In the Name of Research" and novanumbernine's "Bordertown". It is very interesting, actually, and even more rewarding than I had expected. I'm using Genette's terms and applying them systematically, and am about 1/3 of the way through. It's helping me come to grips with the narratological concepts, and it's also very interesting to read fic without evaluating. Analysis is not like criticism or beta; it's more about describing than prescribing or judging. And I'm glad I happened to start out with two very different authors and very different styles. Will post my analysis when I'm through!Not much else to report except that I'm feeling rather cheerful, will rent a romantic comedy from Blockbuster tonight (despite considerable familial resistance) and am still sitting about unshowered and undressed at 2.47 pm! Heh.
But
blythely thinks I look like Kajol so all must be right with the world.ned genette
Feb. 21st, 2004 09:11 pmIt has been so much fun airing my responses to Genette and hearing everyone else's responses to the show-not-tell controversy! *loves it, and hops up and down*
Question: what's this gay marriage thing that people are getting upset about in posts? Is there some important bit of news I have been missing out on? (I read hardly any newspapers these days. Their reporting of the Iraq war turned me off completely. Nor can I bear televised so-called 'news'. The only thing I can cope with is radio.)
Ned Kelly!!
I have it downstairs! I got it out from Blockbuster! T'h is ecstatic! I am ecstatic! T'children are in bed! Good-bye, everyone! I have a double date!!!!
Question: what's this gay marriage thing that people are getting upset about in posts? Is there some important bit of news I have been missing out on? (I read hardly any newspapers these days. Their reporting of the Iraq war turned me off completely. Nor can I bear televised so-called 'news'. The only thing I can cope with is radio.)
Ned Kelly!!
I have it downstairs! I got it out from Blockbuster! T'h is ecstatic! I am ecstatic! T'children are in bed! Good-bye, everyone! I have a double date!!!!