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Does Carcassonne count? I haven't played the thing in awhile! I'll prolly bring it to our org tambayan tomorrow! :D
Serendipity is what happens whenever I pick up a Milan Kundera book. I remember first reading The Unbearable Lightness of Being back in my sophomore year and it somehow managed to change my life (or atleast my view of it) forever. This time around, I quite cluelessly picked up The Book of Laughter and Forgetting since it was the topmost book on my To-Be-Read pile and what do I get but an instant surprise. Given other circumstances, I would have found the opening story completing BO-ring. However, I found the short passage just so...perfect. I wish I had the time to type it up right here (I think you can read it at Amazon) but since I'm too lazy, I'm going to quote a completely different and shorter passage from the same book. :P
...every love relationship is based on unwritten conventions rashly agreed upon by the lovers during the first weeks of their love. On the one hand, they are living a sort of dream; on the other, without realizing it, they are drawing up the fine print of their contracts like the most hard-nosed lawyers. O lovers! Be wary during those perilious first days! If you serve the other party breakfast in bed, you will be obliged to continue same in perpetuity or face charges of animosity and treason!
Do you like surprises?
Who doesn't!? I love surprises! I love new things - I most especially love people who reinvent themselves all the time. I was in a fight with someone in particular about 'surprises' just a week ago. LOL. I never want to be bored. I don't settle for monotony. I want a surprise and I want it now! I want it all the time. :(
Ok, that was just me whining.
I remember enjoying Louise Gluck's poetry about the famous Greek myth couple in Meadowlands. Now comes this crazy novel. I want to read it if only to find out Penelope's backstory (as told by Margaret Atwood). I'm just eager to know. I'm just being chismosa. :D Send me a copy!So Penelope took the hand of Odysseus,
not to hold him back but to impress
this peace on his memory:from this point on, the silence through which you move
is my voice pursuing you.
-from Quiet Evenings, Louise Gluck
What's your musical horoscope? (Put your music player on shuffle and write down the first 10 songs that come up.) Inspired by Stephanie.
- The Cure - Mint Car
- Hawksley Workman - Striptease
- Hawksley Worman - Paper Shoes
- Get Set Go - Wait
- Barenaked Ladies - I Love You
- Barenaked Ladies - New Kid (On The Block)
- U2 - City of Blinding Lights (live 04/05/2005, LA)
- Eraserheads - Finetime
- Goldfinger - I Love You More Today Than Yesterday
- Lenny Kravitz - It Ain't Over Till It's Over
What do you collect?
I collect images of IMG model Jeisa Chiminazzo and afterwards, I put them up at http://jeisa-chiminazzo.com! (Talk about shameless plugging!) As much as I would like to collect pin-ups I don't think I can put up with buying (high fashion) magazines on a regular basis! I can only afford cheaper alternatives like viewing the HQ scans at TFS! LOL.
I still regret the day I didn't bother to pick up The Complete Poems: Anne Sexton worth around P700 at Aeon Books back when I was a college sophomore. Anyway, I'm currently reading her collection Live or Die and the first thing that caught my eye was Sexton's poem for her daughter. I've read it before and no matter how many times I read it, it still comes to me as striking. Oh, little girl, What I want to say, Linda, Darling,
my stringbean,
how do you grow?
You grow this way.
You are too many to eat.
is that there is nothing in your body that lies.
All that is new is telling the truth.
I'm here, that somebody else,
an old tree in the background.
stand still at your door,
sure of yourself, a white stone, a good stone -
as exceptional as laughter
you will strike fire,
that new thing!
If you could watch any movie on the big screen right at this moment, what would it be?
I hate Vox for making me cry! Of course I'd like to watch Beaches all over again. It's my all-time favorite movie no matter how much it makes me cry every single time and no matter how it gets more and more corny each year. I remember the first time I watched it (eight years ago!), I was on board a stupid plane and I ended up crying all over my blanket.
Now, even these two-minute clips can make me cry. This is horrible...atleast I have Vox to blame! :P
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Angela said:
Never liked Ishiguro's books. They bored me to death. >___>;; read more
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Paolo said:
[this is good]Usually underrated. I've read most of Kundera's novels and short fiction--except for the later ones--and this for me is his... read more
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Chris said:
I've only read The Handmaid's Tale. I found her style a little spare, but I wouldn't go so far as... read more
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