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Ariel

Ariel

I love to read, and have loved it since I was a little girl. (My parents did actually punish me by taking books away.) I have read a little of everything, though I tend to prefer fiction. Reading is my escape, whether I'm stressed, upset, or just need a quiet night at home to relax. My mother is an English teacher and my father used to be a... more »
  • Abilene, TX, USA
  • member since March 30 2008

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  • CJ C

    CJ C says

    i haven't been on here in ages. geeze. that's an amazing picture of you btw. i'm curious. what are you looking at, that makes your eyes shine so beautifully? ...

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Sarah G

    Sarah G says

    I read Sarah's Key (the one I got at Target in Dallas) and you REALLY need to read it! It is very, very good!!!

    posted 9 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Book-Lubber

    Book-Lubber says

    Dropped by to see how the weather is Abilene. Do you get snow??

    We actually got SNOW here in Houston/Galveston on Wednesday night... Maybe 1/2 inch. It all was gone by 11:00 a.m. the next morning, but the kids went NUTS!!! The last time it snowed here was on Christmas Eve 3 years ago, and before that it was like 10 years prior.... I don't know if Global warming has hit here.... Seems colder to me.

    posted 12 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Book-Lubber

    Book-Lubber says

    A TEXAS honey!!! Houston here... Love it! (except for the weather).....

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • CJ C

    CJ C says

    hey, i love Earthsea! good series ;)

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Emily C

    Emily C says

    Hey! Not a bad reading list yourself! Thanks for listing so many of my childhood favorites - I haven't remembered to add them yet, so you jogged my memory a bit.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • CJ C

    CJ C says

    i knew that didn't get through. urg.

    i gave you my MYSPACE: http://www.myspace.com/dharmapops26

    and AIM: imladris1981

    i actually asked you the same thing before, but i don't think that message got through either. so, anyway, hope to talk soon :)

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • CJ C

    CJ C says

    *whew* i'm in the clear then. lol

    hey, did you get my other message? my browser froze when i sent it. (urrrrg...technology! heh)

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • CJ C

    CJ C says

    Whoa, whoa! i didn't say i disliked him; i merely stated that he wasn't my favorite. I do love his poetry, it's almost un-American not to. but my favorite poet is Walt Whitman (with Dylan Thomas a close second.) but i love Billy Collins' work.

    so that said, i totally agree with what you said about those stanzas. there's such an exquisiteness to the softness of the language. at the risk of sounding too melodramatic, his words are like an angel's tears.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • CJ C

    CJ C says

    omg, yes! although i will admit he's not my favorite poet, but i love The Art of Drowning. his words just feel warm and comfortable on your tongue. i love his poem Osso Bucco:

    I love the sound of the bone against the plate
    and the fortress-like look of it
    lying before me in a moat of risotto,
    the meat soft as the leg of an angel
    who has lived a purely airborne existence."

    i mean, c'mon. that's beautiful! and yeah, when i him at Caz Library, it wasn't planned or anything. he was just there doing a reading. i was with a friend and she didn't know who he was. i was like, dude, that's Billy Collins! it was pretty surreal. lol

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • CJ C

    CJ C says

    still, very cool :)

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • CJ C

    CJ C says

    omg, that's hilarious! lol....i could just imagine that. how awesome. sounds like something i would do.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • CJ C

    CJ C says

    yeah, i might try em out. a little humor is always a good thing.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • CJ C

    CJ C says

    Oh, yeah. EH is my greatest influence and hero; next to Bob Dylan. lol

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • CJ C

    CJ C says

    I see you like Billy Collins. I met him once, when I lived in South Buffalo, up in New York. He was doing a reading at Cazenovia Park. He was really cool.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • CJ C

    CJ C says

    Hey, I've always wondered about the Pratchett books. I'm assuming they're a good read.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )