tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1569751889486479823.post3629635550502765990..comments2024-02-17T16:48:10.855+01:00Comments on Marmota's Dress Diaries: How to find an easy happiness and fill your house with booksHana - Marmotahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03532515160608083460noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1569751889486479823.post-90904541151626568042012-08-13T13:17:12.759+02:002012-08-13T13:17:12.759+02:00Hm, maybe there really is at least one Hana/Leimom...Hm, maybe there really is at least one Hana/Leimomi/somebody in every country. I like to think there are more, though. ;-)<br /><br />I must say I liked the Neil Gaiman novels and longer works I've read so far more than most of the short stories in Smoke and Mirrors... I think I like it more when his weird and so very real ideas are fitted into a larger world than having them spring at me in a short story, where they are pretty much self-contained. They always leave some things open at the end (I love that), but I like being drawn to that larger world with so many possibilities. The Graveyard Book, though, is great in that it's both short stories and a whole novel (short novel), combining the best features of both.<br /><br />Rupert is awesomefully politically incorrect the way many old children's books are, and totally English.<br />It's something between a comics and a storybook; picture panels with rhymed captions underneath and a story. Several stories in each book, and some crafts and rebuses and such in between.<br />Some of the stories are very fantastical and some are more or less based in the real world, and there's that funny non-distinction between anthropomorphic animals (like Rupert) and their human friends, contrasted to the fact there still are pets in the world, too. So, overall, totally illogical and totally awesome.Hana - Marmotahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03532515160608083460noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1569751889486479823.post-7308110961000200322012-08-13T12:09:50.466+02:002012-08-13T12:09:50.466+02:00Oh drool! What fun!
I think you are my lost Cz...Oh drool! What fun! <br /><br />I think you are my lost Czech sister. Or there is a Hana/Leimomi in every country, and I am me/you for here and you are you/me for there!<br /><br />I do not rescue my books from libraries, but I pick up every old book I see at op shops. My bookcases are also in a constant state of untidy happiness: overloaded with multiple copies of L.M. Montgomery books and Little Women and Jane Austen, because I can't pass the old ones up.<br /><br />Rupert is new to me though.<br /><br />And I just bought Smoke and Mirrors at my favourite 2ndhand bookstore for airplane reading on my upcoming trip :-)The Dreamstresshttp://thedreamstress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1569751889486479823.post-59879938560932576522012-07-28T16:53:09.716+02:002012-07-28T16:53:09.716+02:00I can see how an e-book reader would come in usefu...I can see how an e-book reader would come in useful when travelling... but as I tend to read mostly 20th century books, there would only be more trouble waiting. :P<br /><br />I sort of should already limit my collection, but I just can't. I'd rather throw away other things... if only I knew what! :DHana - Marmotahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03532515160608083460noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1569751889486479823.post-67737800458545036502012-07-28T14:51:58.127+02:002012-07-28T14:51:58.127+02:00Lovely collection!
I sort of had to limit my coll...Lovely collection!<br /><br />I sort of had to limit my collection out of necessity--my room cannot fit another bookshelf. So I have it double-stacked so I can't even see half of my collection, and ended up getting rid of the majority of my classics--the major exceptions being my illustrated Little Women that an aunt gave me for Christmas when I was 8 or something, and all of my Jane Austen books--once I was gifted a Kindle for my birthday the year before last, since I could put them all on as free e-books. (Side note: I resisted the Kindle for years, because I still love paper books and would hate to see them go away completely. But it's proven rather convenient for travel, since I only need to bring one slim device instead of 5 books that take up my entire carry-on. And if I ever do read something super-thick like War & Peace, it'll be nice to not have to carry that in my purse. But I still do buy some "real" books, and you'll have to pry my paperback Tolkien books out of my cold, dead hands. ;)<br /><br />I have to admit, one thing I am really looking forward to about getting married is having more space to let my book collection spread out! Since he has a townhouse and I have one room right now.Beckyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09913795373618902575noreply@blogger.com