I am considering updating my video rental page. A daunting task. I was down in Bellingham last week bookshoping, and with the money I received from my aunt in California for my birthday (April 1), I picked up a couple of leather Easton Press books — The Decameron by Boccaccio; The Tale of Two Cities by Dickens. I adore beautiful books, the look and feel of them. I also found a couple of books I had been looking for, the aforementioned The Book of Embraces and The Horseman On The Roof by Jean Giono. I also bought Jazz by Toni Morrison.
A nasty tempest yesterday and scintillating weather today. Writing briefly about fantasy literature yesterday stirred my desire to read some and possibly write some (I must must must begin working on my novel's second draft), so I hunted down Terry Brooks' The Sword of Shannara and began to read it. It's a little cliche and the prose is quite simple but his use of active verbs and dynamic description both make the narrative move smoothly. His action scenes are particularly smooth which draws the reader in by being almost invisible. A net friend sent me the Webster Dictionary on CD, but it won't load properly.
Am I the only one who cannot stand the Los Angeles Lakers? Get this, I could not find one channel that carried the Philadelphia/Milwaukee basketball games so far. It's the NBA semifinals for crying out loud. I could not believe it. Go Sixers.
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