Jenny's comments
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If any of the cake survives the week I'll bring it in to the Library and you can see for yourself!
The petticoat affair : manners, mutiny, and sex in Andrew Jackson's White House / John F. Marszalek.And Petticoat Junction is RAD. Thanks for reminding me.
Thanks dude. It was the muddiest wedding ever. But I have 3 boxes of left over cake in my refrigerator. So I call it a success.
I am so sad I don't have TV. The Aberdeen library put together this little Jane Austen display with a flyer advertising the J.A-athon on Masterpiece Theatre. It totally whet my appetite for some adaptations, but alas. No TV. As for the Dark is Rising movie, I thought it was pretty bunk. It looked really cool, but they cut so much out of the story that it kindof didn't make any sense. They never described who the old one were or what they were doing. And the boy in the snow globe was just too much. Big disappointment. Golden Compass was a bit better. Speaking of Stephanie Meyer, they're making a movie of Twilight, of course.
You can't go wrong with Jane Austen. I wanna try on a few classics on for size as well. Maybe Moby Dick. And try to actually read, and finish, a bit of nonfiction. And try to actually remember what I've read do I can recommend it to people. Which is what this whole Good Reads thing is about, but somehow, I still end up staring blankly at the screen and wondering what I was reading last week.
Lately everything I've picked up has stunk. Or, at least, was precisely the thing that I wasn't in the mood for. So not necessarily bad, but, you know. And it goes for movies, too. I think what I need right now is a nice romantic comedy. But I guess the last actually really just plain bad book I read was a J fantasy called "Strange Birds" by Judith Gilliland. Pee-ewe. And for me to say that about a book that is about tiny flying horses takes a lot.
I have read nothing this year. Oh wait, I have. I guess it was just all bad. I've read a couple of the Caldecott books, but other than that, I've got nothin'. Very convenient list though.
"Illuminatus Trilogy" by Robert Anton Wilson
"Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana" by Umberto Eco
Well, it's not so much that they're bad, per se. He just doesn't understand why I don't get bored with them. This coming from the man who reads possible the most boring books I've ever seen. Politics and social criticism and philosophy. Like stuff you have to read when you're in college. Because he likes to be "challenged" by what he reads. Where as I read for enjoyment. Which apparently isn't a big priority for him. ???
"The Dot and the Line: a Romance in Lower Mathematics" by Norton Juster
Ooo. The 2008 World Almanac. And here I am getting by on a 2005 version I snagged out of the Friends of the Library free pile. I've been hoping for the Compact OED since I was in college, but in spite of the hints, no luck. Maybe it's more of a grad school graduation type gift book.
I'm thinking about getting Will Sophie's Choice, because he's never read it and he's continually on my back about how I only read romance novels and kids books instead of "literature". Sometimes I like to prove that I have read heavy hitters, I just generally choose not too.
My dad usually gets a book of poetry from me. I'm thinking Philip Larkin this year. And maybe a sweater from South Bend's own Sweater Shop.
I lived in the "Historic South Capital Neighborhood" for the first half of my Oly life. Which had the benefit of close walking distance to downtown with no steep hills and a convenient bike ride to the Tumwater Safeway. But then I moved to the Eastside and discovered the wonders of taking the bicycle freeway to Lacey for a matinee. Best way to spend a summer afternoon.
I'd love the Oxford Companion to British History. But I know I'll just get some sweater my mom ordered from an old lady catalog that's like 3 sizes too big, but when I try it on, she'll be like: "Oh, I'm so glad it fits!" so I won't return it and I'll end up giving it to Goodwill in about 10 years after maybe wearing it to a job interview when I was desperate to look like a mature woman.
I'm reading Stuck in the Middle right now, edited by Ariel Schrag. It's a collection of stories about junior high. Sad and funny and horrifying. If you haven't read Scheherazade edited by Megan Kelso yet, you should. And I LOVE Joe Sacco. Except Notes of a Defeatist (is that the name?), which is his early work. Not so hot. But The Fixer and Safe Area Gorazde are amazing. Does I Love Led Zeppelin actually have anything to do with Led Zeppelin?
Persepolis: the story of a childhoodby Marjane Satrapi
Hey guys. I'm Jenny. I used to live in Oly and now I live in South Bend, which is by Aberdeen. But I still come to Olympia at least every Sunday to work at the library. I'm in grad school getting a masters in Library Science. When I'm not doing homework I read a lot of juvenile and YA fiction, and the odd adult book too. I live with my awesome boyfriend, Will and three cats. One is a giant. One has anal gland issues and acne. One is svelte and extremely fickle. And Will has a bad back, but a super powerful brain. I listen to a lot of heavy metal, particularly from the late 60s and 70s. I'm on a real Judas Priest kick right now.
I'm a fan of Budweiser. And coffee. But not usually at the same time.
And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson
