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caithreamI woke up this morning and it was 35 degrees and RAINING. SO CLOSE. SO. CLOSE. Since we're 15 minutes away from the beach our weather is usually more temperate, so no snow/sleet here. A little further north and inland though, yes, there were reports of sleet and some light snow flurries. Orlando sent me a final fuck-you by doing so there. :(((( OH WELL. I will get my fill when I am in Salt Lake this time next year, haha. Still, it's only 36 degrees here now and 25 tonight.
As thrilled as I am about all this, it's really really bad for Florida all around. People are dying in mobile homes and whatnot because no one's homes are BUILT for this kind of weather. Crops are dying like crazy and even sea turtles and manatees aren't faring so well. :(
Also, y'all need to tell me the difference between sleet and freezing rain. I thought sleet was rice-like pellets but then there's something about slushie rain, man, I don't know. HELP A SOUTHERN GIRL OUT.
OKAY I will stop obsession about the weather, shh, Sarah.
I finally saw Sherlock Holmes last night! SO DELIGHTFUL. Holmes and Watson = House and Wilson DUH YES I KNOW but omg the revelation made me squeal into my fists. Pretty much Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law should make movies together forever.
Also, you should know that I was eating toast this morning, like you do, and part of my STUPID wire behind my STUPID bottom front teeth popped out of the cement. I SWALLOWED CEMENT. AND NOW MY WIRE IS OUT OF PLACE. Surprise visit to the orthodontist Monday, I guess, ughhh.
Anyway, the WHOLE POINT of this post is to ask you guys for: book recs! I know I only just asked for book recs a couple months ago but of course I thought I tagged it but cannot find it. I'm really looking for easy-to-read, fun plot kind of books, with maybe some kind of interesting learning involved (Billy Bob and Joanna Sue live on a volcano! Here's everything you've ever wanted to know about volcanoes and more!)? Or just your favorite books of the moment, haha. I need to squeeze Vonnegut in there somewhere because I have actually NEVER READ VONNEGUT, I KNOW, I am disgraced, etc., so tell me which one of his I should read first too.
As thrilled as I am about all this, it's really really bad for Florida all around. People are dying in mobile homes and whatnot because no one's homes are BUILT for this kind of weather. Crops are dying like crazy and even sea turtles and manatees aren't faring so well. :(
Also, y'all need to tell me the difference between sleet and freezing rain. I thought sleet was rice-like pellets but then there's something about slushie rain, man, I don't know. HELP A SOUTHERN GIRL OUT.
OKAY I will stop obsession about the weather, shh, Sarah.
I finally saw Sherlock Holmes last night! SO DELIGHTFUL. Holmes and Watson = House and Wilson DUH YES I KNOW but omg the revelation made me squeal into my fists. Pretty much Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law should make movies together forever.
Also, you should know that I was eating toast this morning, like you do, and part of my STUPID wire behind my STUPID bottom front teeth popped out of the cement. I SWALLOWED CEMENT. AND NOW MY WIRE IS OUT OF PLACE. Surprise visit to the orthodontist Monday, I guess, ughhh.
Anyway, the WHOLE POINT of this post is to ask you guys for: book recs! I know I only just asked for book recs a couple months ago but of course I thought I tagged it but cannot find it. I'm really looking for easy-to-read, fun plot kind of books, with maybe some kind of interesting learning involved (Billy Bob and Joanna Sue live on a volcano! Here's everything you've ever wanted to know about volcanoes and more!)? Or just your favorite books of the moment, haha. I need to squeeze Vonnegut in there somewhere because I have actually NEVER READ VONNEGUT, I KNOW, I am disgraced, etc., so tell me which one of his I should read first too.
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Date: 2010-01-09 09:20 pm (UTC)vonnegut - i read slaughterhouse five first. it was awesome. it is intense, too - not a fun plot kind of book.
the condition by jennifer haigh is a great novel set in new-england; it's plotty, but a little heavy in terms of subject matter. i really loved it, though. it's about a family in new england dealing/living with a daughter who doesn't age, physically - who never goes through puberty. you get the summer before they find out she has a condition and then the summer thirty years later. gooooorgeous.
i just finished reading the children's book, by a.s. byatt; it's an epic english family novel that is lovely for the fact that byatt's writing style is engaging, but you don't learn much - unless, of course, you don't know anything about the turn of the century. in which case, i would recommend a different novel to learn about the turn of the century, for serioius.
also really enjoyable in terms of thrillers are the girl with the dragon tattoo and the girl who played with fire series by steig larsson; he's a swedish guy who died after delivering the final manuscript in the trilogy, the girl who kicked the hornet's nest, which will be out this summer. if you read them, though, you have to get through the first two chapters before the first one gets good, and you have to read the first one before the second.
there's a young adult series that i've been recommending like crazy, as well. the knife of never letting go and its sequel, the ask and the answer, by patrick ness, are AMAZING. there's a third coming out in england this year, which should be here soon after. they're about a post-apocalyptic world in which humans have colonized other planets. on the planet where todd lives, everyone can hear everyone else's thoughts. it's beautiful and brutal and compelling, and i loooove it.
notable mentions: serena, by ron rash; the help, by kathryn stockett (not really a notable mention - you should read it, but you may have heard of it already. if not, just pick it up. you don't have to know anything about it.); tell no one, by harlan coben. i have stacks and stacks to recommend (and quite a few i have yet to read.) let me know if you need more. like i said, this is my job and i love it.
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Date: 2010-01-10 12:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-10 02:10 am (UTC)And homg REALLY? Are you sure? I wouldn't want to take something so neato away from you!
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Date: 2010-01-10 02:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-10 03:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-10 01:19 am (UTC)My wire came out like a month after they put it in while I was eating, of all things, canteloupe! Hasn't come out since, though, and it's been like 6 years.
Marcus Zusak wrote some YA books that are actually *really good* - I Am The Messenger and The Book Thief :)
Also I just read The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society which was awesome and I would totally rec. it.
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Date: 2010-01-10 02:12 am (UTC)LOL CANTALOUPE! That's even worse than toast! Idk, the ortho I went to used like 239420 pounds of cement on my teeth. When the day came to finally get my braces off my gums bled because of how stuck on the bands were on my molars!
Yay thank you! I do love me some good YA books. :D
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Date: 2010-01-10 04:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-11 07:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-10 04:57 am (UTC)Freezing rain = rain that freezes to the ground/trees/everything it touches.
That's my northern girl understanding at least.
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Date: 2010-01-11 01:00 am (UTC)I suggest Paper Towns by John Green. And ooh the Outlander by Gil Adamson was amazing. What else...City of Thieves was pretty entertaining, and I just finished Jane Eyre, which is classic.
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Date: 2010-01-11 03:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-11 07:42 pm (UTC)And thanks for the book recs! I can't wait to get reading again!
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Date: 2010-01-11 01:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-11 07:45 pm (UTC)Belated book recommendations
Date: 2010-01-18 07:01 am (UTC)Generation X by Douglas Coupland
Quirky, clever, and very relevant to today. Don't let the "written in 1991" factor discourage you.
I've quoted this book so many times and gotten much amusement from it. I also love how Coupland seldom describes his characters' appearances. You could imagine anyone as them.
The Hero's Walk by Anita Rau Badami
Tales from Other Suburbia by Shaun Tan
Souvenir of Canada by Douglas Coupland
May bring back memories of Vancouver. Non-fictiony picture book about Canada. There's also a second one out but I haven't read that. The first one was fun, though.
Re: Belated book recommendations
Date: 2010-01-20 06:47 am (UTC)