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Justin M

Justin M

"Each person sees his or her own personal rainbow." -- Jacaranda Physics 1 (VCE Units 1 + 2)

Taking a break. Won't be on Shelfari for about a week. Will I survive? Only time will tell. :) -- (2/1/10)

What I read in 2009
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  • Melbourne, Australia
  • member since April 2 2008

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  • LibraryCin

    LibraryCin says

    Wow! You really are prepared, aren't you!? Enjoy! :-)

    posted 2 days ago. ( send a note )
  • LibraryCin

    LibraryCin says

    Happy New Year to you, too, Justin! (You're already there!) And have fun on your holiday! Will you have time to get lots of reading done? Good luck figuring out where you want to go to school.

    posted 3 days ago. ( send a note )
  • LibraryCin

    LibraryCin says

    Hey Justin! Hope you had a nice Christmas! :-) Mine was quiet, but that's o.k. Would have been nice to have my brother there, too, but not this time. :-(

    Where is Monash? You don't need to decide immediately what you want to study anyway, do you? Don't you have a couple of years to take classes and decide on something?

    posted 5 days ago. ( send a note )
  • LibraryCin

    LibraryCin says

    I hope you like Into Thin Air. I'll be looking for a review from you! I just started reading White Fang today. I had hoped to finish it this weekend, but didn't get as much read today as I'd hoped, and I just don't know if I'll have time to read at all this weekend. I'll be packing, wrapping gifts, doing housework, etc, generally just getting read to go "home" for Christmas. Ahh, my picture of Io was actually taken last year. I did finally get my tree decorated last weekend though. Very late for me! The tree was up for a week before I found time to decorate. A good chunk of my problem is the amount of time I'm online, though. Sigh...

    Good luck with the studying, Justin. I hope it pays off for you - I'm sure it will! :-) Where do you plan to apply for university?

    posted 2 weeks ago. ( send a note )
  • LibraryCin

    LibraryCin says

    Hey Justin! I'm not sure when the last time was you checked in at Author Author, but did you know that Bill Bryson is one of the authors for this month? I wish I would have thought to come by and let you know sooner. Sorry about that!

    posted 2 weeks ago. ( send a note )
  • LibraryCin

    LibraryCin says

    Thanks Justin! LOL about the fiddle! (In Cape Breton, it is more likely to be a fiddle than a violin.) We have lots of big things in Canada, too! I think there's a giant perogy somewhere in Alberta, plus a bunch of other things that I just can't think of at this moment!

    You study in the summer? Oh no! Good luck finding a job. But it'll be nice "seeing" you here on shelfari a little bit more again! Over Christmas, when I was in school, the holidays were usually about 2 weeks, if I'm remembering correctly - maybe a bit longer than that? At work, most places only get the 25th and 26th off, as well as Jan 1, but because I work at a university, we get more than that. Just over a week this year, though we used to get - up until the past 2 or 3 years - closer to 2 weeks.

    In the summer in Canada, schools usually are off for all of July and August. I think in the U.S., they might get a couple weeks more than that, but I'm not positive of that.

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  • iami k

    iami k says

    thanks

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  • iami k

    iami k says

    thanks

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  • LibraryCin

    LibraryCin says

    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?

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  • punnya p

    punnya p says

    Hi Justin
    New game and couple of other topics re posted in 'Words are our World". Hope to see you there
    Regards,
    Punnya

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • LibraryCin

    LibraryCin says

    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! :-)

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  • James

    James says

    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.

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  • NighEve

    NighEve says

    Yo' Bro!
    I love your avatar photo! Did you take the photo?

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • LibraryCin

    LibraryCin says

    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.

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  • James

    James says

    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.

    posted 3 months ago. ( send a note )
  • James

    James says

    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!

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  • Dr. J. G.

    Dr. J. G. says

    Nice icon picture.

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  • James

    James says

    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 -

    posted 3 months ago. ( send a note )
  • James

    James says

    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!

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