Books: 2005 Archives

Flaubert Post!

And my old pulpy copies of Madame Bovary...

And a Happy Birthday to Madame Mordantia Bat!

I'm goint to go stick my face in a jar of arsenic now. Weeeeeeeeee!

We tried to see Hitchhikers last night in Emeryville with the effervescent and lovely Cola. We got to the theater early, got the best seats, but half way through the Star Wars preview the lights went on and the fire alarm started sounding. We were ordered out of the theater. When let in a few minutes later (a false alarm, duh) we of course had lost our seats. There was a long line of others who had lost their seats waiting to get refunds. So we left, went home and pouted.

I know I'm the last person on the planet to see it, but we watched Napoleon Dynamite instead. Seemed like a cross between Square Pegs, Welcome to the Dollhouse, and Ghost World. Took a long time to figure out what decade they were in. Still not sure because of all the purposely anachronistic references. But refreshing, none the less.

SO. We woke up early this morning and headed to the city to attempt to see Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy AGAIN. This time at the Sony Metreon. Where we could geek out on the rest of the surroundings before and after the movie. The film was good in its own right, but lacked the sparkle and verve of the BBC radio recordings, books & tv series. I loved Stephen Fry's narration, he sounds very close to the original (though this is not a prerequisite) and I enjoyed the Marvin/Arthur Dent cameos from the TV series.

After the movie, and a spin at the Portal One arcade, we didn't feel like going home yet so we headed to Japan Town for books & sashimi & soba.

Because I just nabbed this article off of the Tanith Lee mailing list. You must go read some LEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

I cannot begin to tell you how much her books mean to me. She's dreamy.

Favorites:
♥ The Flat Earth series, specifically Death's Master.
♥ Don't Bite the Sun & Drinking Sapphire Wine, recently re-released as Biting the Sun
♥ The Paradys series, specifically The Book of the Damned
♥ The Blood Opera series
♥ Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer. Duh.

On my list of things to do:

♥ add an "All Tanith, All the time" page to Book Whores.
♥ buy new books. I'm woefully behind! Metallic Love, Fatal Women, & Death Of The Day. Meh.