Apr 1, 2017
morpholomeg replied to your post: So, the Supreme Chancellor Kenobi verse takes...
YET!
AHAHAHHAA! I’m just messing with you or am I?
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morpholomeg replied to your post: So, the Supreme Chancellor Kenobi verse takes...
YET!
AHAHAHHAA! I’m just messing with you or am I?
l i s t e n i have work in the morning and i just read THIS ENTIRE BLOG why do you do this to me please never stop
omg on one hand: we’re so sorry sleep and caring for yourself is important pls get some rest and have a knock out day at work tomorrow, BUT ALSO
W O W you read????? the entire blog????? like i helped write almost half the blog and even i haven’t read the entire blog?????? holy shit?????????????
morpholomeg replied to your post: Prince Philip is the most badass prince EVER. And...
Right but you say Prince Philip and I immediately think of the Queen’s gaff-prone husband
the fundamental difference between being English and being American, my dear
morpholomeg replied to your post: new url who dis
Yummmmm!
i KNEW you’d get it!! i was hoping you’d see i made the change ^_^
So, what does the new url mean?
So “kemelpardelis” is actually supposed to be: kəˌmɛləˈpɑːrdəlᵻs which is the phonetic spelling of “camelopardalis” a constellation named after my favorite animal - giraffes!! It’s perfect for me because I love giraffes and I love space! Best of both worlds ^_^
#i swear i'm not even this much of a les mis fan #villierscy just reblogs all the best les mis stuff
@morpholomeg I am going to take this compliment, and wear it proudly. :D
final morpholomeg update!
Didn’t finish the Alison Weir because stuff happened. So far, it’s just making me aware that my knowledge of sixteenth century Scottish nobility/politics is seriously lacking. Like, if I see the name Rochester when I’m reading about sixteenth century English politics, I immediately know that’s George Boleyn, Viscount Rochester, related to the Howards (patriarch the Duke of Norfolk). If I see Châtellerault, on the other hand, I will have no clue that that’s the Duke of Châtellerault, formerly the Earl of Arran, James Hamilton. Hopefully it’ll come more naturally by the end of the book!
Did finish Louise O'Neill’s other book, Asking For It. Brilliant, but massive trigger warnings for rape and rape culture, immensely hard hitting, don’t read it just before going to sleep.
Overall, I think NotSoNaBooReaMo has been really good for me. My library account has certainly had a workout, which I hope to keep up into 2016. I went through a bit of a phase of not reading any books after I left university, completely worn out. It’s been really nice to get back into reading, and into sharing book recommendations with people. :)
Books read:
The Silkworm - Robert Galbraith - 454 pages
The Big Over Easy: Nursery Crime Adventures - Jasper Fforde - 396 pages
The Fourth Bear: Nursery Crime Adventures - Jasper Fforde - 379 pages
Oliver’s Story - Erich Segal - 191 pages
Coraline - Neil Gaiman - 185 pages
Stardust - Neil Gaiman - 256 pages
The Notebook - Nicholas Sparks - 221 pages
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams - 149 pages
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe - Douglas Adams - 159 pages
Life, the Universe and Everything - Douglas Adams - 151 pages
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish - Douglas Adams - 131 pages
Brooklyn - Colm Tóibín - 252 pages
The Maze Runner - James Dashner - 374 pages
Only Ever Yours - Louise O'Neill - 390 pages
The Tudor Vendetta - Christopher Gortner - 290 pages
The King Is Dead - Suzannah Lipscomb - 215 pages
American Gods - Neil Gaiman - 640 pages
Asking For It - Louise O'Neill - 346 pages (according to Goodreads, because I took it back to the library before writing it down!)
The Lost Tudor Princess: A Life of Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox - Alison Weir - pages 1-160
Final page total: 5,339
morpholomeg update
Back to Neil Gaiman, and American Gods. A fascinating look at the character of the USA (although as far more of an outsider than Gaiman himself, I am certainly not the best judge) and at the notions of faith and worship over the last few centuries as well as here in the twenty first. It’s… I wouldn’t say it’s a brave book, but no one could accuse it of cowardice. It’s bald, blunt, unshrinking, and yet nuanced.
Favourite passage (non-spoilery):
No man, proclaimed Donne, is an Island, and he was wrong. If we were not islands, we would be lost, drowned in each other’s tragedies. We are insulated (a word that means, literally, remember, made into an island) from the tragedy of others, by our island nature, and by the repetitive shape and form of the stories. We know the shape, and the shape does not change. There was a human being who was born, lived, and then, by some means or other, died. There. You may fill in the details from your own experience.
Look up those pages, even if you haven’t the opportunity to read the whole book. It’s around halfway in, page 345 in my copy, the section entitled Coming to America, subtitled 1778.
Books read:
The Silkworm - Robert Galbraith - 454 pages
The Big Over Easy: Nursery Crime Adventures - Jasper Fforde - 396 pages
The Fourth Bear: Nursery Crime Adventures - Jasper Fforde - 379 pages
Oliver’s Story - Erich Segal - 191 pages
Coraline - Neil Gaiman - 185 pages
Stardust - Neil Gaiman - 256 pages
The Notebook - Nicholas Sparks - 221 pages
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams - 149 pages
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe - Douglas Adams - 159 pages
Life, the Universe and Everything - Douglas Adams - 151 pages
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish - Douglas Adams - 131 pages
Brooklyn - Colm Tóibín - 252 pages
The Maze Runner - James Dashner - 374 pages
Only Ever Yours - Louise O'Neill - 390 pages
The Tudor Vendetta - Christopher Gortner - 290 pages
The King Is Dead - Suzannah Lipscomb - 215 pages
American Gods - Neil Gaiman - 640 pages
Page total so far: 4,833
Next up, another return, either to Louise O'Neill or to the Tudor era with Alison Weir. I haven’t decided yet. I wonder if I can finish both before the end of the month.