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Dec. 28th, 2005 09:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nigeltdeWow, so since my last post I have managed to get onto the computer, um.......twice. Frankly I'm a little stunned that I made it this far at all--if the withdrawl didn't kill me, all the 'being outside' and 'hanging around normal people' stuff surely would have. I'm made of stronger stuff than I thought. Perhaps a Mr Creosote-type post-Christmas explosion is just taking a little while to kick in.
The houseboat was awesome. I'll probably post pics so that you can all marvel at the swankness of it. Then it was just day after day of taking the Englishers out on touristy stuff, into town and to Glenelg, down to Victor Harbour & Granite Island, up to the Barossa for a wineries tour (YUM), and over to Kangaroo Island for a couple of fabulous days (I did ALL the driving for the kiddies' car. Awesome, I love driving, but everyone else got to sleep and read, bastards). Then the blitzkrieg of Christmas, and work on the public holidays, and catching up with friends, and going out with L, and shit, the year's gasping its last breath.
These are the books I have bought or acquired in the last month or so and haven't been able to read yet:
From a library sale:
Simone de Beauvoir - The Mandarins
Piers Anthony - Castle Roogna (yay for nostalgia!)
The 50-Gun ship (a GORGEOUS book all about 50-gun ships from like 1640-1800 with plans and diagrams and statistics and pull-out pages and everything!)
Dictionary of world politics
Fantastic Tales - Jack London
The Wit of Whitlam (ok, I read this one)
Van Gogh catalogue with plates
Stephen King - Hearts in Atlantis
Myths of the Greeks and Romans
Tanith Lee - Red Unicorn
Mrs Aeneas Gunn - The Little Black Princess (an early 20th C retelling of an indigenous story, looks hilariously/disturbingly colonial. Bizarre photos as illustrations)
Patrick O'Brian - HMS Suprise (yay, collect them all!)
For my birthday:
Mirrormask book (thanks, lainy!)
Dark Knight vol 1 (early Batman comics)
Randomly purchased (there were so many SALES on!):
Hitchhiker's GTTG, the first four in one volume
Merchant of Venice
King Lear
Annie Proulx - Bad Dirt (more short stories)
Stephen Fry - Making History
Stephen Fry - Rescuing the Spectacled Bear (so much Fry-y goodness!)
The Telling of the World (Native American myths and stories)
Rachael Holmes - Scanty Particulars: the Scandalous life and Astonishing Secret of Queen Victoria's most Eminent Military Doctor (ie, James Barry)
PG Wodehouse - one of the J&W compilations, I think Much Obliged
and an Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum, which I've been reading for the last couple of weeks when I can get a chance.
Oh, and I have Noel Baker's Hard Core Roadshow on the way from Amazon.com, a late Christmas present, and I placed![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
docbrite's The Value of X on order. Woooohoooooooooooo!
Anyway, hope everyone's Christmases and Hannukahs and surrounding times went well.
PS: King Kong? MARRY ME PJ!!!!!! There's a good article on it in the latest The Monthly. (Which is not entirely about menstruation.)
Oh and I got tons of great stuff for Christmas (pictures of one particularly awesome one coming soon to screens near you!) but one of the best was a story written for me byveronamay: Gifts, PG, H/W. Thank you!
ETA:veronamay, look at the curve of and light on Ray's back in my mood icon over there, and tell me that CKR is not stunningly beautiful *g*
The houseboat was awesome. I'll probably post pics so that you can all marvel at the swankness of it. Then it was just day after day of taking the Englishers out on touristy stuff, into town and to Glenelg, down to Victor Harbour & Granite Island, up to the Barossa for a wineries tour (YUM), and over to Kangaroo Island for a couple of fabulous days (I did ALL the driving for the kiddies' car. Awesome, I love driving, but everyone else got to sleep and read, bastards). Then the blitzkrieg of Christmas, and work on the public holidays, and catching up with friends, and going out with L, and shit, the year's gasping its last breath.
These are the books I have bought or acquired in the last month or so and haven't been able to read yet:
From a library sale:
Simone de Beauvoir - The Mandarins
Piers Anthony - Castle Roogna (yay for nostalgia!)
The 50-Gun ship (a GORGEOUS book all about 50-gun ships from like 1640-1800 with plans and diagrams and statistics and pull-out pages and everything!)
Dictionary of world politics
Fantastic Tales - Jack London
The Wit of Whitlam (ok, I read this one)
Van Gogh catalogue with plates
Stephen King - Hearts in Atlantis
Myths of the Greeks and Romans
Tanith Lee - Red Unicorn
Mrs Aeneas Gunn - The Little Black Princess (an early 20th C retelling of an indigenous story, looks hilariously/disturbingly colonial. Bizarre photos as illustrations)
Patrick O'Brian - HMS Suprise (yay, collect them all!)
For my birthday:
Mirrormask book (thanks, lainy!)
Dark Knight vol 1 (early Batman comics)
Randomly purchased (there were so many SALES on!):
Hitchhiker's GTTG, the first four in one volume
Merchant of Venice
King Lear
Annie Proulx - Bad Dirt (more short stories)
Stephen Fry - Making History
Stephen Fry - Rescuing the Spectacled Bear (so much Fry-y goodness!)
The Telling of the World (Native American myths and stories)
Rachael Holmes - Scanty Particulars: the Scandalous life and Astonishing Secret of Queen Victoria's most Eminent Military Doctor (ie, James Barry)
PG Wodehouse - one of the J&W compilations, I think Much Obliged
and an Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum, which I've been reading for the last couple of weeks when I can get a chance.
Oh, and I have Noel Baker's Hard Core Roadshow on the way from Amazon.com, a late Christmas present, and I placed
docbrite's The Value of X on order. Woooohoooooooooooo!Anyway, hope everyone's Christmases and Hannukahs and surrounding times went well.
PS: King Kong? MARRY ME PJ!!!!!! There's a good article on it in the latest The Monthly. (Which is not entirely about menstruation.)
Oh and I got tons of great stuff for Christmas (pictures of one particularly awesome one coming soon to screens near you!) but one of the best was a story written for me by
veronamay: Gifts, PG, H/W. Thank you!ETA:
veronamay, look at the curve of and light on Ray's back in my mood icon over there, and tell me that CKR is not stunningly beautiful *g*
