Glorious Day!
Jun. 19th, 2021 02:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lunabee34It has been such a good birthday. In addition to the lovely gifts I've already mentioned in previous posts, misbegotten sent me a beautiful postcard and some bath bombs from Lush. They are indeed luscious. I've never lived near a Lush and so did not realize what I'm missing out on. I got a birthday card from decynthus and birthday messages on DW from many of you. Thank you so much, everyone. <3
Josh and the kids outdid themselves. Josh got me a lovely bouquet of flowers (I felt like Clarissa Dalloway) and a spa gift certificate which is perfect because I have been thinking I'm going to want to get my toes done and maybe a massage before I start back in fall. Emma took Fiona to Wal-Mart and they got me a beautiful journal (pen and gear brand) with a gorgeous green faux leather cover imprinted with a botanical design. And fountain pens work on this paper! I am shocked; zero show or bleed through with any of my pens, even the broad nib. None of the markers I tried showed through either. The paper is absorbent so there's some feathering and no sheen or shading of inks, but that's fine. I'll be able to write on both sides of the paper with any of my pens. Hurrah! They also got me some bath happies (a face mask, a foot mask, a bath bomb).
I woke up this morning to an email from Brad Dowdy that I'd won the latest PenAddict giveaway of a set of the newest Zebra Sarasa R Gel pens. How wonderful is that? Not only did I win but on my birthday!
That Was Then, This Is Now by S.E. Hinton
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I read this first in junior high, I think, and not since then. Hinton is an extremely good writer--excellent dialogue, excellent interior monologue, and excellent insight into the emotions of adolescence.
Oh, this is so terribly sad, though.
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Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I'd only read this once before as an undergrad and had forgotten most of it.
It's beautifully written; I love Woolf's rambling sentences with the strange syntax juxtaposed with short, simple declarative sentences. I love the way the lives of all the characters intersect, one narrative POV moving seamlessly into another.
And while this is a book in which characters experience profound sadness--Peter's thwarted love, Miss Kilman's poverty, Septimus's suicide, the collective trauma of the War--it's also a book of profound hope and optimism and happiness. Clarissa's delight in being alive is wonderful to read.
This one goes back on the shelf. :)
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misbegotten sent me a beautiful postcard and some bath bombs from Lush. They are indeed luscious. I've never lived near a Lush and so did not realize what I'm missing out on. I got a birthday card from decynthus and birthday messages on DW from many of you. Thank you so much, everyone. <3Josh and the kids outdid themselves. Josh got me a lovely bouquet of flowers (I felt like Clarissa Dalloway) and a spa gift certificate which is perfect because I have been thinking I'm going to want to get my toes done and maybe a massage before I start back in fall. Emma took Fiona to Wal-Mart and they got me a beautiful journal (pen and gear brand) with a gorgeous green faux leather cover imprinted with a botanical design. And fountain pens work on this paper! I am shocked; zero show or bleed through with any of my pens, even the broad nib. None of the markers I tried showed through either. The paper is absorbent so there's some feathering and no sheen or shading of inks, but that's fine. I'll be able to write on both sides of the paper with any of my pens. Hurrah! They also got me some bath happies (a face mask, a foot mask, a bath bomb).
I woke up this morning to an email from Brad Dowdy that I'd won the latest PenAddict giveaway of a set of the newest Zebra Sarasa R Gel pens. How wonderful is that? Not only did I win but on my birthday!
That Was Then, This Is Now by S.E. HintonMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
I read this first in junior high, I think, and not since then. Hinton is an extremely good writer--excellent dialogue, excellent interior monologue, and excellent insight into the emotions of adolescence.
Oh, this is so terribly sad, though.
View all my reviews
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
I'd only read this once before as an undergrad and had forgotten most of it.
It's beautifully written; I love Woolf's rambling sentences with the strange syntax juxtaposed with short, simple declarative sentences. I love the way the lives of all the characters intersect, one narrative POV moving seamlessly into another.
And while this is a book in which characters experience profound sadness--Peter's thwarted love, Miss Kilman's poverty, Septimus's suicide, the collective trauma of the War--it's also a book of profound hope and optimism and happiness. Clarissa's delight in being alive is wonderful to read.
This one goes back on the shelf. :)
View all my reviews
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Date: 2021-06-19 06:52 pm (UTC)https://sallymn.dreamwidth.org/1179369.html
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Date: 2021-06-19 07:00 pm (UTC)Mrs Dalloway is one of my favourite books ever. So gorgeously written.
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Date: 2021-06-20 02:16 pm (UTC)I can't tell what kind of paper it is. Neither the notebook or the description on the Walmart website says anything about it other than it is acid free.
I really love Mrs. Dalloway, too. I've read very little Woolf. I'm pretty sure I read To the Lighthouse at some point, and I've read A Room of One's Own. That's it. What would you recommend?
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Date: 2021-06-19 07:47 pm (UTC)Sounds like you must have been very good this year. :D
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Date: 2021-06-20 01:09 pm (UTC)You'd think so given all this bounty. :)
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Date: 2021-06-19 07:56 pm (UTC)♥
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Date: 2021-06-20 01:08 pm (UTC)What a happy, wonderful graphic! <3
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Date: 2021-06-19 08:06 pm (UTC)Happy birthday!
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Date: 2021-06-20 01:09 pm (UTC)It was pretty great from start to finish.
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Date: 2021-06-20 02:46 pm (UTC)I really won the present lottery this year!
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Date: 2021-06-20 02:46 pm (UTC)What a wonderful thing to say!!
Thank you!
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Date: 2021-06-19 09:38 pm (UTC)That's perfect! :D :D :D
Happy Birthday!! *ballooooons*
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Date: 2021-06-20 02:33 am (UTC)*hugs*
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Date: 2021-06-20 02:48 pm (UTC)I am going to have to get me to a Lush store at some point, clearly. I bet there's one in Atlanta.
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Date: 2021-06-20 07:16 pm (UTC)Highly recommended, although it truly is a WALL of scent when you walk in.
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Date: 2021-06-20 06:03 pm (UTC)Congrats on the win! (Your story reminded me of my dad. I won tickets to a Mary Chapin Carpenter concert on the radio (dating myself here) on my birthday, too! I was going to invite my brother to go, but my dad informed me that ~he'd like to go. So my dad and I went to this concert, front row (small venue) and he was afraid the entire concert that she was going to make him go up on stage because he'd heard stories of that sort of thing happening, lol! She didn't. *g*) (As it turns out, today was a good day to have that memory.)
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Date: 2021-06-21 10:38 am (UTC)What a wonderful memory; I'm glad I brought it to mind. *hugs*
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Date: 2021-06-22 12:21 am (UTC)yay! happy belated birthday.
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Date: 2021-06-23 04:08 am (UTC)"HUGS"
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Date: 2021-06-24 10:59 am (UTC)Hugs
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Date: 2021-07-03 06:01 pm (UTC)They Say It's Your Birthday!
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