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Justin M is now reading Suite Francaise.
Justin M is now reading Physics of the Impossible.
Justin M is now reading To the Lighthouse.
Justin M is now reading QI: The Book of General Ignorance.
Justin M rated 1984 2 days ago.
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Justin M is now reading Foe: A Novel (King Penguin).
Justin M rated The Great Gatsby 3 weeks ago.
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Justin M rated Science is Golden 3 weeks ago.
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I'm sorry I've been so slow about getting those links sent! I finally finished typing up a long summary for myself. I plan to shorten it up (in the next few days... tonight, if possible, but I may not get it done tonight), then send out the summary at the same time as the links. As you can see, I've already changed my picture away from the PEI pic! I always loved summer holidays, and I think I was one of the few who was never ready to go back in the fall! Enjoy your time off! Will you be getting a summer job? Wait!? Is this your last year of high school, or do you have one more to go?
Hi JustinNew game and couple of other topics re posted in 'Words are our World". Hope to see you thereRegards,Punnya
Justin, I could send you the link for the pics, but I was also hoping to write a short summary to go with it, too. For now, my avatar is a sneak preview. It was taken on Prince Edward Island at Cavendish Beach (near where L.M. Montgomery grew up - author of Anne of Green Gables). It's sooo pretty! :-)
Hey Justin, Just wondered how you were finding Nanowrimo. I'm using it more as a writing exercise to try out some ideas, although I find I am too influenced by my favourite authors a lot of the time.ps 1984, that's a great read! Although it was about three years ago when I read it.
Yo' Bro! I love your avatar photo! Did you take the photo?
Hi Justin. Thanks! Yes, I did have fun. Candice and I got along really well. It was as bit chilly, but otherwise very pretty and lots of fun. I am uploading pics to facebook right now, so at some point, I'll send you a link if you are interested in looking at the pictures. I plan to write a short summary, too. I'll probably wait till I've done that and send it all at once. Hope you're doing well.
The best advice I got about reading To the Lighthouse was - to take it slow, so as to experience the sheer beauty/poetry of her prose closely, allowing it to evaporate into your being and consciousness.
I've FINALLY finished my application for university, applying for English Literature... I tried to go for the universities where the English Literature orientated around the kind of books/movements/authors that I enjoy to read and write about. I would be crossing my fingers if I believed in luck... do you still have your lucky rabbit's foot handy? ;-p What are you edging towards with your choice... science (Yuck!) ?Shakespeare is fascinating, but... I'm not a huge fan as well... although we are reading Othello in school and it is the most enjoyable of his, so far! I hadn't read many plays until this year, but now I can see my future leaning towards the theatre, especially after reading Beckett (I just can't stop thinking about him and have read very little since!)Cheap bookshops, second hand shops, same thing (I think!) - sometimes they are the best place for finding obscure, intriguing books!
Nice icon picture.
Things are alright, school is depressingly boring, but everything else is going great. Luckily this is the last year of school and next year I'm off to university (If I get into one!) No, don't think I'll be doing Nanowrimo - I've stopped writing fiction (well, planning to write fiction) and moved on to plays - which is coming on so much better (I've nearly finished a short play and have written the first act of a bit longer play.) I'm enjoying it and it is less time consuming - I usually think about it more in school when I should be learning!! Good luck - I may still give Nanowrimo a go but don't know. My inspiration is Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot", which has just become my favourite play - the more I think about it the more I love it. The reason I manage to buy a lot of the books I read is this year and last year I got money every week for going to school, if I didn't I would have to go to the library as well... and I HATE libraries... plus we still have some good cheap book stores in London, do you have any in Melbourne? Yeah, I read Ulysses over the summer and that probs is the best time - especially during the night. That is when I got most of my reading done. If you like Stream of Consciousness Mrs Dalloway would be a good start to Woolf, it is quite a quick read (compared to "To the Lighthouse" despite the same book lengths), if you don't like Stream of Consciousness "Orlando" (which I'm reading right now) has more of a story to get into.Going to click the post button and hoping I didn't overwrite this -
Hey Justin, how are things (resisting the temptation to say "down under" or did I just say it? ;-p) where you are? Saw on BTS that you were going to be attempting Nanowrimo and was wondering whether you had any plans yet? I was going to do it this year, but my writing has taken a different turn and I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to hit the big 50000 mark!Hope you are enjoying The Great Gatsby! I enjoyed it - my mum and dad loved it a lot more than me - but I feel like a re-read it on the cards (It felt as if I had missed something pivotal to the meaning that may have heightened the reading experience.) Nice day!
I just read that there was another dust storm in Sydney. I assume that one didn't hit you, either? It sounded like it wasn't as severe as the first one.
I'm sure you have told me about Pepper, and I just forgot. :-( I stopped watching Canadian Idol as well, but I danced for so long, that I still really enjoy watching the dancing shows. I love Toni Colette! Really liked Muriel's Wedding. :-) Probably her biggest hit over here in North America was The Sixth Sense. I'm guessing here. Maybe Muriel's Wedding was up there, too, I'm not sure.
Justin, I am sorry to read about your grandfather. My heart and my prayers go out to you and your family. I know you seem to think that prayers don't seem to help but I have found that they do just when I have given up on them/
Hi! I just noticed your picture and wondered if that was of the dust storm. Wow!
hey bro.... where are you? whats new... how is life going....
awwww - that's the thing with the shy cats - you have to be patient with them. Some of them never get over being shy. "It", hey? He or she? ;-)Everything starts up here in the next few weeks and I watch too much of it! "Reality" shows I watch include all the dancing shows (Dancing with the Stars, So You Think You Can Dance Canada - which has already started - plus the American one, but I may not bother with it, as it overlaps with the Canadian one) and Amazing Race. I also watch Supernatural, Medium, Desperate Housewives, Lost (but that won't start till January), and I'm sure there's more I'm forgetting. It's the dance shows that take up so much time really, between 2 hours for the dancing and 1 hour for the results! I haven't heard of The United States of Tara, so it must not air here - at least on any of the channels I get, anyway. I'm not big into sitcoms, though, not anymore. Mostly the ones I like are the Canadian ones. Corner Gas ended last year, but Little Mosque on the Prairie is still on. Oh yeah, that and The Tudors are others I watch...
Hi Justin. I wasn't really looking for a thank you from you. I just wanted to be sure you got it. I usually get a notification when someone picks up an ecard, and I didn't remember seeing that you had picked it up, so I just wanted to be sure you got it. I'm doing well. Work is getting busy, as classes start up on Tuesday. Plus, I am volunteering again - not for the Humane Society, but for a different cat rescue society. I clean on Sunday mornings, plus, starting tonight, I am now also helping socialize scared cats. I'm really going to like that. Bellydance classes will start again in a couple of weeks too, so I will not have nearly the same amount of time to read as I have had. And more tv starting soon...
