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[junejuly15]

Happy 2015!

A very Happy New Year to all my followers around the globe! It's still 2014 in my part of the world, but I want to send my best wishes to all of you now. May the new year bring you joy and happiness, good health and the ability to appreciate the little things in life. As some of you might know the past year hasn't been a good one for me personally, but I'm an optimistic person and so I'm looking forward to whatever the new year is having in store for me. Guten Rutsch! Happy New Year!

[junejuly15]

One year from today I'll be in London, I will meet lovely real life and tumblr friends and in the evening we're going to watch Hamlet. One year!!!!

[thescienceofjohnlock]

I did the ice challenge for ALS (twice grrr). Lady Avenal nominated me and I nominate ignorus, atlinmerrick, and songofages. Oh and if you're hard enough, cumber-porn!

I said more in the vid that didn't record but forgot for the second one. This is what having icy water tipped over your head does for your memory.

From the ALS Association website:

“ALS was first found in 1869 by French neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot, but it wasn’t until 1939 that Lou Gehrig brought national and international attention to the disease. Ending the career of one of the most beloved baseball players of all time, the disease is still most closely associated with his name. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. Motor neurons reach from the brain to the spinal cord and from the spinal cord to the muscles throughout the body. The progressive degeneration of the motor neurons in ALS eventually leads to their death. When the motor neurons  die, the ability of the brain to initiate and control muscle movement is lost. With voluntary muscle action progressively affected, patients in the later stages of the disease may become totally paralyzed.”

“OUR MISSION: Leading the fight to treat and cure ALS through global research and nationwide advocacy while also empowering people with Lou Gehrig’s Disease and their families to live fuller lives by providing them with compassionate care and support.”

Click here to donate

When you have iced water tipped over your head, you are likely to get a bad headache and your skin will feel numb. These are two symptoms of ALS (and a few other conditions).

[sleepingexplorer]

Books books books

I was tagged by two lovelies, ignorus and junejuly15. Thank you!

Rules: In a text post, list ten books that have stayed with you in some way. Don’t take but a few minutes, and don’t think too hard — they don’t have to be the “right” or “great” works, just the ones that have touched you. Tag 5 friends (I just picked a number), including me, so I’ll see your list. Make sure you let your friends know you’ve tagged them.

I have done this one in the past, a few months ago. I don't remember what books I listed but I guarantee these will be mostly different because yeah. Some of these are books that shaped my thoughts or different periods of my life, some are books that gave me book hangovers lasting weeks or sometimes years. Feel free to ask me about any of them, if you want to get an earful. :)

1. J.R.R. Tolkien - The Silmarillion

2. Jack Kerouac - The Dharma Bums

3. Frank Herbert - Dune

4. E.R. Eddison - Mistress of Mistresses

5. Ray Bradbury - The Martian Chronicles

6. Walter M. Miller - A Canticle for Leibowitz

7. Madeleine L'Engle - A Swiftly Tilting Planet

8. Shel Silverstein - Where the Sidewalk Ends

9. Nick Bantock - Griffin and Sabine

10. William Shakespeare - Hamlet (this counts as a book I say)

11. Anne Rice - Interview with the Vampire

12. China Miéville - Perdido Street Station

13. Tom Wolfe - The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

14. Jean Craighead George - My Side of the Mountain

I must stop here or I'll never stop. I tag these lovely people: thescreechowl, deducemesir, jackie-illustration, strangerontheinside, marcus-erronius, you-keep-me-right-jw, lunadax, and violetcurmudgeon. Also, anyone else who wants to do it and sees this, please do it, and also tag me so I can see your lists. :)

[junejuly15]

Books Books Books

The lovely ignorus tagged me in this, thank you very much!

Rules: In a text post, list ten books that have stayed with you in some way. Don’t take but a few minutes, and don’t think too hard — they don’t have to be the “right” or “great” works, just the ones that have touched you. Tag 5 friends (I just picked a number), including me, so I’ll see your list. Make sure you let your friends know you’ve tagged them.

Krabat, Ottfried Preussler

The Catcher in the Rye, J.D.Salinger

Perfume, Patrick Süßkind

Der kleine Nick, Rene Goscinny

Never let me down, Kazuo Ishiguro

Unterm Rad, Hermann Hesse

Kabale und Liebe, Friedrich Schiller

Lord of the Flies, William Golding,

The Mermaids Singing, Val McDermid

Michel von Löneberga, Astrid Lindgren

I liked that :)  I tag witchravenfox, piningjohn, asolitarybee, sleepingexplorer (and ignorus)

[shirleycarlton]

Books books books

Ilonasaurus tagged me (on my prettyrealisticjohnlockfanart-blog) in a book thing! Rules: In a text post, list ten books that have stayed with you in some way. Don’t take but a few minutes, and don’t think too hard — they don’t have to be the “right” or “great” works, just the ones that have touched you. Tag [NUMBER OF] friends, including me, so I’ll see your list. Make sure you let your friends know you’ve tagged them.

Pippi Longstocking (Astrid Lindgren)

Discovery of Heaven (Harry Mulisch)

Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Caroll)

The Secret History (Donna Tartt)

The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)

The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean Auel)

Hotel New Hampshire (John Irving)

The Crow Road (Iain Banks)

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle)

Triangle (Teri White)

(more or less in the order in which I read them)

[danglingthpider]

ignorus replied to your post: I feel all tired and achey and a bit c...

You’ll never go wrong with some vitamin B! :-)

Indeedy! (:

[junejuly15]

Joined the queue for Hamlet tickets (not open yet, but already queueing) - So far I have ranged all my laundry, cleared my desk, answered my post, and now I am nervously waiting for the queue to open. What a great way to spend this morning!