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Jan. 17th, 2007 07:50 pmTwo new phrases I love:
The first, coined by my brother, is along the lines of chillin' like a villain: "cool like the other side of the pillow."
Mark came up with the second as we passed an over-decorated (by my uptight Episcopal standards) church: "They're getting wacky with the tacky."
So, for 2007 I thought I would start listing in my blog every book I read and every movie I see. It might get me to post a little more frequently, but then again it might not. At any rate, so far this year I've read two books: Neal Gaiman's Neverwhere and Nancy Mitford's biography of Madame de Pompadour.
The former was excellent; I have yet to be disappointed by anything Gaiman has written. This is kinda ironic, because I actually avoided him for a long time -- I thought of him as a graphic novelist, and I have a hard time reading graphic novels. (To be precise, I have a hard time "reading" pictures -- I get confused about what's going on when it's not spelled out in words.) But someone linked to his LJ, and I loved his voice there, so I finally picked up a copy of American Gods sometime last summer. Since then I've read Good Omens and Anansi Boys and Smoke & Mirrors, and I have a copy of Fragile Things waiting for me upstairs.
The latter was a gift, and not the kind of book I usually read (by which I mean it's non-fiction). I enjoyed it more than I expected, though; it was written about as engagingly as a novel, and it was a lot funnier than I expected.
Sunday RM & I saw Primeval. ( spoilers, ho! )
The first, coined by my brother, is along the lines of chillin' like a villain: "cool like the other side of the pillow."
Mark came up with the second as we passed an over-decorated (by my uptight Episcopal standards) church: "They're getting wacky with the tacky."
So, for 2007 I thought I would start listing in my blog every book I read and every movie I see. It might get me to post a little more frequently, but then again it might not. At any rate, so far this year I've read two books: Neal Gaiman's Neverwhere and Nancy Mitford's biography of Madame de Pompadour.
The former was excellent; I have yet to be disappointed by anything Gaiman has written. This is kinda ironic, because I actually avoided him for a long time -- I thought of him as a graphic novelist, and I have a hard time reading graphic novels. (To be precise, I have a hard time "reading" pictures -- I get confused about what's going on when it's not spelled out in words.) But someone linked to his LJ, and I loved his voice there, so I finally picked up a copy of American Gods sometime last summer. Since then I've read Good Omens and Anansi Boys and Smoke & Mirrors, and I have a copy of Fragile Things waiting for me upstairs.
The latter was a gift, and not the kind of book I usually read (by which I mean it's non-fiction). I enjoyed it more than I expected, though; it was written about as engagingly as a novel, and it was a lot funnier than I expected.
Sunday RM & I saw Primeval. ( spoilers, ho! )