Possibly the sweetest opshop find ever!
I got this Travel Journal (Beach) for $2.00 today. It’s unused. It’s clean. It’s fun. It’s still being sold for £9.95… so about $30AUD.
check it out from: sukie.co.uk
Category: <span>Books</span>
Harry Potter nearly made me miss three trains yesterday. I loved the last book, it is more action paced(sic) than some of the others and there is just something about continuing the journey with characters you’ve grown curious about.
The spoilers were clearly a strange mash of unexpressed truths… certain things didn’t happen where they supposedly meant to. Thanks.
I am satisfied. Although the epilogue was a bit much.
I know some apparently cried through the book regarding what happens to various characters, but I finished the last page and spent a good while laughing.
Outloud.
The whole thing was just so fun. Thank you J. K. Rowling for some good old fashioned entertainment, for sparking my imagination and taking millions on a literary ride.
My culinary reading delights have triped back on ho to my childhood. I recently re-read The Children of Green Knowe which I loved when I was younger and mercifully was rewarded with at least a little of the same magic as it used to engage.
I might note that I have finally gotten my hands on my sister’s copy of the final Harry Potter and am very much enjoying myself as I rack my brains back to the last one and try and forget the numerous spoilers that have seemingly come my way.
It is about the adventure, not the end point.
I am losing hope for poor old Snape though… I was always rather convinced he was going to pull through as a goody. (And don’t you dare spoil that one – either outcome).
I have also sitting on my shelf, The Dark is Rising Series, which I could be very much mistaken has recently (or will be) been made into a movie. Utterly captivating. I love books that toy with enough imagination that they actually provoke a small amount of fear. So I dare say as soon as Harry Potter has been dealt with – on all kinds of levels – that’ll be next.
Mmmm…. and then there’s the coveted copy of Absurdistan that I now own and still haven’t touched!
Apologies to Anna because I keep forgetting.
I have been Meme’d and I think I’ll do it, because pulling a few sentences from a Terry Pratchett has got to be amusing (Or will just sound so incredibly sci-fi you’ll never go near one).
Rules:
- Pick up the nearest book of 123 pages or more.
- Find page 123
- Find the first 5 sentences
- Post the next 3 sentences
- Tag 5 people
The book: The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
Sentences:
In his right hand he carried the magical black sword Kring, which was forged from a thunderbolt and has a soul but suffers no scabbard. Hrun had stolen it only three days before from the impregnable palace of the Archmandrite of B’Ituni, and he was already regretting it. It was beginning to get on his nerves.
Hehe, Terry Pratchett comes through with something good!
And I’m going to defy the final rule because I might’ve been bad already and gone and gotten my Terry Pratchett and put it closer to me.
If you want to do the meme. Do. If you don’t, don’t.
As I seem to be on a posting spree today, let me go one more.
There is an interesting post here about How to read books above your level.
I am unsure if I agree 100% with what the guy is saying, but I do know that the introduction is what propelled me through Dorian Gray (even if it isn’t that difficult) and it was worth every minute. I came out throughly depressed, but slightly awed, so it all balances out.
My simple advice is to read those more difficult books when you’ve got enough time on your hands to not be thinking about other things. Pretty darn obvious.
For example: Do not try and read a Dostoevsky when you are organising a wedding. It just doesn’t work.