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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