tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-194502205241031272024-03-13T01:42:45.357+02:00And here's how it happenedCoyote was there, but Coyote was asleep.
<br>That Coyote was asleep and that Coyote was dreaming.
<br>When that Coyote dreams, anything can happen.
<br>(T.King)Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15723030265830816881noreply@blogger.comBlogger57125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19450220524103127.post-39014719840243713602010-02-01T13:40:00.000+02:002010-02-01T14:40:32.776+02:00Eva Ibbotson: "A Company of Swans" I read "A Company of Swans" in December 2009 together with "A Countess Below Stairs" by the same authors, when I just needed some not-too-stupid chicklit, basically comfort reads. Back from the library, I immediately sat down in my armchair and read bot."A Company of Swans" seemed to be the more elaborate of the two, as it not only gave insights to ballet, but also brought the reader to the Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15723030265830816881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19450220524103127.post-86394028830157278802010-01-28T20:47:00.006+02:002010-01-28T22:46:04.462+02:00Reading updates in JanuaryOne year ago, I just had finished a lot of light reading to get through the dark Icelandic winter, especially chicklit seemed to be on my mood, among others The Nanny Diaries, the very awful Sex and the City and the surprisingly good Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.Now, because of exams and a tighter schedule evolving around courses and their preparation and also rugby, not so many books Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15723030265830816881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19450220524103127.post-63072914938067969482009-12-09T22:25:00.005+02:002009-12-09T22:34:10.591+02:00Watching CastleCastle's lesson of the day...In this 11th episode of season 2 I am currently watching, one guy has been saved from a bullet by a copy of Dostoyevski's Crime and Punishment in his inner jacket pocket.Beckett: "Good thing he reads"Ryan: "Good thing he reads Russian literature. If the guy was a Nicholas Sparks fan, he'd be dead."We get it: reading dense (in every sense) literature instead of Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15723030265830816881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19450220524103127.post-87535639393889556812009-12-07T21:29:00.005+02:002009-12-09T22:34:37.424+02:00BBC Lost in AustenAt first I was sceptical about this BBC production (2008). A 21rst century Janeite does an Alice-in-Wonderland-kind of jump into the world of Pride and Prejudice and experiences what we all would love to: she takes Elizabeth Bennet's spot and meets another very handsome version of our beloved Fitzwilliam Darcy.Most of the story evolves around her efforts to put everything "right", that is how Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15723030265830816881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19450220524103127.post-7541403943636934412009-12-01T20:18:00.002+02:002009-12-01T20:50:51.172+02:00What the library let me hunt downTruman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's, I already finished just now in my beloved armchair. It is a good story to read and reread, the ending is quite different from the movie.If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky.Two by Eva Ibbotson, A Company of Swans and A Countess below Stairs, both often recommended to me and I was n the mood to alternate literature and Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15723030265830816881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19450220524103127.post-40502800216079771932009-11-26T23:36:00.003+02:002009-11-26T23:42:13.287+02:00A Thanksgiving quoteI am currently watching the 8th episode of The Middle and obviously it is about all the trouble a family can have on the glorious day of Thanksgiving.The ultra relaxed Axl goes with his brother Brick (yes..) to a corn maze, loses him there and completely freaks out: "He's got like a green jacket, a yellow hat and ... OMG, HE'S DRESSED LIKE CORN! We are never going to find him in here!" Turns Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15723030265830816881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19450220524103127.post-33706391238678742372009-11-24T20:13:00.005+02:002010-04-22T00:48:52.785+03:00Terry Pratchett 2010 ChallengeIt is maybe not the best thing to sign up for another challenge (even when it goes for a whole year) just when you admitted to have technically failed one.But it was just one book out of 5 for the Classics challenge! and almost every Austenite hates it! shouldn't have taken damn Mansfield Park, Fanny Price was unbearable once summer was over, in fall you need real women like Thursday Next in my Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15723030265830816881noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19450220524103127.post-1306991172421849572009-11-24T20:06:00.002+02:002009-11-24T20:12:16.040+02:00Classics Challenge 2009 endedYes, ended (October 31st actually), but unfortunately not completed as I missed out on one: Mansfield Park by Jane Austen did just not flow with me and I couldn't finish it in time. I am not even reading it at the moment, I don't feel for it at this time of the year.So in the end, I have read- Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca [x May 31st 2009]- Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey [x June 2009]- Leo Tolstoy, Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15723030265830816881noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19450220524103127.post-11697018306727243712009-11-22T15:59:00.002+02:002009-11-22T16:29:00.121+02:00Less reading, no posting, lazy me...Since September, I have been really busy in every single aspect of my life. Classes at university started again and it was quite weird to go back to work, studying, reading regularly. I did not go back to my soccer team but started rugby where I am surprisingly not too bad at, actually not bad at all and am maybe even going to be one of the regulars as the right hand prop. Yay!Partying is Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15723030265830816881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19450220524103127.post-90502401942064301032009-08-29T00:22:00.002+03:002009-08-29T00:34:19.951+03:00Friday Fill-Ins #1391. He was a squirrelfan.2. Starting a new university year with new books, new courses, new colleagues and new social life is what I look forward to most this time of year.3. My best friend is nonexistent, I am more the type of having a few close friends than one best.4. I want to be in a world where you can expect people to be honest with you and be rightfully angry if they're not.5. Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15723030265830816881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19450220524103127.post-82653472540548951912009-08-28T23:58:00.004+03:002009-08-29T00:19:21.962+03:00Hooray me! Hooray Anna Karenina!Just to announce my immense satisfaction and relief: I have finished Anna Karenina!Yes, I loved it but no, it was not easy to read. Not because of the style, which was extremely good and very funny at moments but because of the content and Tolstoi's tendency to stress details, especially anything about: agriculture, spirituality, agriculture, the process of thinking without actually getting into Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15723030265830816881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19450220524103127.post-51442589658919639302009-08-21T22:54:00.004+03:002009-08-22T00:16:48.678+03:00China Challenge 2009-2010Jennie at Biblio File is hosting this amazing challenge about China and I am all excited to make my list of books and things - yes, things! more on that later.The challenge runs from September 1st 2009 to September 1st 2010, which is even better as I am therefore having a "Chinese" year exactly between my 21st and my 22nd birthday!There are three levels, the Armchair Traveler, the Fast Train to Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15723030265830816881noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19450220524103127.post-19573614946540649732009-08-13T11:18:00.000+03:002009-08-13T12:04:29.245+03:00Thursday Thunks 13/081. Hypothetical question- you are in a building with famous works of art, old manuscripts of famous novels, and original sheet music from famous composers. The building is on fire and looks to be completely destroyed. Do you grab any of the famous works before fleeing, and if so what?Of course I grab as much as I can, but I would rather take paintings than manuscripts or original sheets, as long Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15723030265830816881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19450220524103127.post-20404255589077147942009-08-13T11:09:00.003+03:002009-08-13T11:16:32.055+03:00Jane Austen: "Northanger Abbey"Jane Austen has surprisingly established herself over the years as one of my favourite authors and I have to admit my presence among the hardcore Pride & Prejudice and Mr Darcy devotees of which there are many in world. Knowing very well her "three big ones", Pride & Prejudice of course, Emma and Sense and Sensibility, I have recently decided to catch up with her other novels and bought Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15723030265830816881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19450220524103127.post-74663162555314834072009-08-11T18:44:00.002+03:002009-08-11T19:04:03.451+03:00Musing Mondays 10/08/09Yesterday, Musing Mondays came up with this question:Do you have a favourite publishing house -- one that puts out books that you constantly find yourself wanting to read? If so, who? And, what books have they published that you've loved? Like most people I know, I do not have any favourite publishing house, I am in fact simply considering the whole range of book genres that interest me when Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15723030265830816881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19450220524103127.post-22537047946245859422009-08-10T09:49:00.002+03:002009-08-10T09:54:34.917+03:00Comments section fixedIt took some days for me even to figure out that it was impossible to comment on this new layout! But now it should be fixed and I even have the "posted by" back at the bottom I was looking for. When I will find some motivation again to look at the template code again, I will try to get the date header a bit down, there's too much space between it and the post title.Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15723030265830816881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19450220524103127.post-20242300238807036732009-08-07T10:20:00.003+03:002009-08-07T10:28:23.560+03:00Friday Fill-In #1361. Litchee juice is my favorite summertime drink.2. My favorite John Hughes movies is The Breakfast Club.3. Shark skin is something I love to touch.4. The full moon is the perfect moment to go out and have a midnight walk.5. I want to crawl back into my bed right now.6. When daylight fades, the sky is tainted in thousand colors.7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to enjoy Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15723030265830816881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19450220524103127.post-14333273166187076342009-08-07T10:03:00.003+03:002009-08-07T10:19:44.040+03:00What to (not) do with a bookToday's news are filled with trial reports about people who get indemnities because they put their cat into the microwave or drink burning coffee and no proper instructions told them not to.So just in case, take notes.Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15723030265830816881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19450220524103127.post-49826659777330582092009-08-06T09:42:00.004+03:002009-08-07T11:30:25.571+03:00Terry Pratchett: "Equal Rites"Equal Rites is the third fantasy novel of Terry Pratchett's Discworld series and was recommended to me by my former professor of Icelandic folklore. Published in 1987, it explores the themes of female magic vs male magic, gender equality, institutionalised vs grassroot magic and the use of power.The story goes as follows: Drum Billet, a wizard, ends up in Bad Ass, a small village up the mountainsSarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15723030265830816881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19450220524103127.post-33627236861811790462009-08-03T12:24:00.005+03:002009-08-03T19:22:20.416+03:00Musing Mondays 03/08/091) If you don't frequent your local library, why not? At the moment, I am abroad in Russia and as I do not speak Russian well enough to read novels, I did no see the need to look for a local library.2) If you do visit the library, how often do you go? When I am in my city, I try to go every week. My "local library" is actually half an hour bus drive away so when I am very busy I Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15723030265830816881noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19450220524103127.post-81124012852703854182009-08-03T10:15:00.005+03:002009-08-07T11:31:44.393+03:00Jeffrey Eugenides: "Middlesex"I have wanted to read this Pulitzer-winning Middlesex for at least a year, not only because I had read and liked reading The Virgin Suicides maybe 3 years ago but because the story seemed fantastic. I have always been very fond of marginal people, different lives and I felt that this novel was about a literature-shaping character.In the end, the story turned out to be even better than "just" the Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15723030265830816881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19450220524103127.post-70306310415758643952009-07-31T11:02:00.002+03:002009-07-31T11:12:58.317+03:00Friday Fill-In #1351. It's time for coffee and biscuits.2. Work; it's not a bad place for filling out Friday Fill-Ins.3. I must be crazy to always come back to the same question whether I should go back to that bookstore again to "have a look" - my suitcase will not take all these books I buy here!4. Travelling is the best thing I have ever known.5. My office coffee cup is simply blue.6. The last time I laughedSarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15723030265830816881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19450220524103127.post-74126281463811052922009-07-28T10:05:00.003+03:002009-07-28T11:05:29.494+03:00Reading in hard timesIt has been a long while since I finished a book (last one was Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett maybe two weeks ago) and it is funny how I feel bad about that. I know that I read for the pleasure of reading and not only to make my TBR-list smaller, but apparently I need a regular "book ending" to happen, to give me a sort of structure.Plus, I hate to be reading so many books at the time. Anna Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15723030265830816881noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19450220524103127.post-36294657582409358492009-07-14T10:34:00.003+03:002009-07-14T10:46:25.232+03:00The Big List of Bookish Social NetworksI would quickly like to share this article by Deeplinking.net on bookish social networks. Written in 2007, it lists a number of different platforms I did not all know. What is even more interesting is the description following each mention. For example, Goodreads is a"Simple bookish social network that emphasizes book recommendations from other users."Others like ConnectViaBooks or LibraryThing Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15723030265830816881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19450220524103127.post-49250660704093999222009-07-13T20:05:00.005+03:002009-12-09T02:10:30.890+02:00Newsweek's Top 100 Meta-ListNewsweek came up with this best of best-of-lists and even if it is again another list that stressed how many books I have not read, I like the concept enough to put it here. Enjoy.1. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoi2. 1984, George Orwell3. Ulysses, James Joyce4. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov5. The Soung and the Fury, William Faulkner6. Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison7. To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf8. The Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15723030265830816881noreply@blogger.com0