My word today was erinaceous. I finally, finally got to use this word. Grandiloquent is fun as well. I'll have to slip it into conversation.
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by Violinagin D.
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word of the day
Started about 4 years ago · Last post about 4 years ago ·
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GASP! I dont love Twilight
Started over 4 years ago · Last post over 2 years ago ·
Did you noticed she used the word "crooked" to describe his smile every single time in the first book... except once? Just once, randomly, in the middle of the book she refers to his smile as "[Bella's] favorite uneven smile"
It happens around sixth grade ^_^... I think I worked my way out of it.... Maybe? I have more optimism... some days :D
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one of those books you just can't put down
Started over 4 years ago · Last post about 2 years ago ·
Ooh, I liked that. And The Eureka Effect was interesting as well. And Eye and Brain, the Psychology of Seeing was very good, if a bit technical for a light read :P
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GASP! I dont love Twilight
Started over 4 years ago · Last post over 2 years ago ·
There are a few people (myself included) who expressed dislike for the book on the twilight thread.
I think it's completely God Awful myself, but it was so bad it was comic gold to me.
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one of those books you just can't put down
Started over 4 years ago · Last post about 2 years ago ·
Ooh... I love A Wrinkle in Time. I have about 6-8 copies of that book and there is no telling how many times I've read it! At least twice as much as I've read Harry Potter and I lost count at 34 when I was reading Harry Potter. And speaking of Children's(?) books, I just loved Howl's Moving Castle. So completely different from the movie, but each were absolutely perfect!
I really liked The Dreamland Chronicles by Wm. Mark Simmons. Read all three books in a day and a half because I couldn't stop.
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The Tales of Beedle The Bard
Started almost 5 years ago · Last post over 2 years ago ·
I loved it. Very much in the style of Fairy Tales I read, and even a bit darker than some of the watered down versions I grew up hearing. Talk about shocking... I can totally relate to the poor children who listened to the Watered Down version in the notes in the book.
It's nothing like Harry Potter, but it wasn't supposed to be. I think I liked the Hairy Heart or Babbity Rabbity best... :P
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libaries
Started over 4 years ago · Last post over 3 years ago ·
We used to get dropped off at a library after school, I was in heaven everyday!
Now I'm working about building up my own library. Nothing huge. Only about 2000 books, but I get about 100 a month. @_@
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Favorite book?
Started over 4 years ago · Last post about 1 year ago ·
A Swiftly Tilting Planet, All the King's Men, The Reivers, The Art Spirit, Chaos...
I think I could go on for days!!
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online reading
Started over 4 years ago · Last post over 4 years ago ·
Webcomics are fun. I used to love stumbling and reading everything that came up, but I've been using google chrome and can not get stumbleupon to work. Well, I can stumble, but I can't save!
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Twilight series!!!
Started almost 5 years ago · Last post over 4 years ago ·
So, my boyfriend decided to buy the book because, hey, why not? And after a few torturous weeks, he just finished it and gave it to me an hour or so ago. I'm just about done.
I have to say it is the most horribly amazing book ever. I love it because it really is so bad. I really can not be sure if she is being sarcastic and satirical or not! I don't think I've laughed so much at a book in my life. I know she said she was going for romantic comedy but that is not why I'm laughing.
I've never read an author who was addicted to saying the same words over, and over, and over, and over... Did she mention his smile was crooked? That he dazzled? Was there enough electricity? Were there enough adverbs?? Damn. And, why, oh why God, did she invoke the name of Faulkner? I know he'd be just sick. That's really the only point I can't really forgive her. Especially since the whole character of Bella is just a thinly veiled Mary Sue of how she either views herself or wishes she was viewed by others and his name was just an excuse to say "ooh! Look at me!" I've read enough internet fiction to know that.
I do love it though. But then again I read terrible fan-fiction for fun. I'm afraid I lump this bit of insanity in the same (but slightly better edited) pile. Can't wait to read the next three!
(I am sorry to be the only one who likes this thing on its demerits.)
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Textiles Book
Started over 4 years ago · Last post over 4 years ago ·
I have a whole lot, but they are all "the complete needle workers guide" "The Southern Living guide to textiles..." "The Needleworker's Constant Companion" and just big books I've gotten at book fairs. A whole ton of quilt books too. "Great American Quilt Masterpieces," "The Quilt that walked to Golden," "Heirloom Quilts," "Quilts of the Mormon Migration," and lots, lots more.
My favorite book is "Charmed Knits" but that's all knitting and one book I really want is Barbra Brackman's though that's out of print. And very academic. Elegant Stitches is all about pretty things and technique and crafts. Very inspirational. Anatomy of Costume didn't have what I wanted, but it was cheap at the book fair and I got it anyway.
If you can, go to a book fair, any sort of textile or art book is much cheaper there, though usually more expensive than the other books. But hey, four dollars for a book that's normally worth twenty five? I'm all over that!
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Does anyone else write poetry?
Started over 5 years ago · Last post over 3 years ago ·
The last time I put a poem online everyone responded with "But that's not a word!" and I just sighed and banged my head against the keyboard and said forget this, and told everyone to read Billy Budd (Or, really, any good book and see how the writer plays with language, it's just the word I used was originally Melville's! And can you imagine if Milton hadn't worked with language? No pandemonium for us... or the other half of our language) And no one has read a word I've done in verse to this day. That was after someone told me, "I have to think too hard to read what you're writing." And I thought, well, sure, I make a lot of allusions to other works, but I don't use really difficult language and I use really, really simple sentence structure. I think people really should think about poetry. So I continued to write until the word fiasco.
So I still write poetry. A lot of it, actually. But now I write it for myself and really geek it up and don't post it.
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The Tales of Beedle The Bard
Started almost 5 years ago · Last post over 2 years ago ·
*Dancing! Dancing!*
I must admit, I'll probably shell out the money for /both/ versions. But I kinda collect books. Books over food, ya know! (At least I'm not alone, together, me and my boyfriend probably have 2000 books. And no food... hehehe.)
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The Tales of Beedle The Bard
Started almost 5 years ago · Last post over 2 years ago ·
*g* Happiness! I'm so getting it!
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Favourite Books Of All Time?
Started over 5 years ago · Last post almost 2 years ago ·
I liked Memoirs of a Geisha up until the end. Didn't hate it, but the spell he'd woven through the book didn't quite reach the end. I loved the movie though.
I guess my favorite books are by L'Engle. A Swiftly Tilting Planet and The Dark Side of the Sun are two of my favorites of hers. Penguins and Golden Calves and Walking on Water are my two favorite non-fiction works by her.
But I love reading! This is near impossible for me. I'm just addicted to the written word! Fiction, Non-Fiction, News, Fanfiction, Essays, Poetry, Children's books, How to Books... :) Love it!
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Top Comic Books?
Started over 5 years ago · Last post almost 3 years ago ·
My boyfriend has always been a fan of Batman, and he let me read a few, and I was suprised... I liked them! Loved Sandman, amazing stuff. And I'll always be a fan of Rurouni Kenshin!
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What are you reading?
Started almost 6 years ago · Last post over 1 year ago ·
Ooh! I'm right in the middle of GEB, though I put it up for a bit because my boyfriend gave me Flatland and Flatterland and I just fell in love with those, and before I got back my friend gave me The Aeneid and I'm trying to reread that and two others. But I also just got I am a Strange Loop, so back to GEB before I read his second one!