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Curling up in an armchair with a cup of tea, a piece of fruitcake and Ballet Shoes* = good cure for post-Christmas Blues.
*The tv version was enjoyable, and reasonably faithful to the book, Sylvia/Mr Simpson-subplot notwithstanding. The book is better, though.
Christmas and New Years went well. No household crisis, no illnesses and not much quarreling. Tiny Niece is still young enough to shriek with delight anytime she opens a present, regardless of what she gets.
I've been reading A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire) over the holidays, but I don't think I'll continue with the rest of the series. Martin writes well, but I've grown less and less fond of this kind of fake-medieval, low on supernatural elements fantasy. And while the characters are reasonably complex, I didn't really warm up to anyone of them except for Tyrion, and to a lesser extent Dany.
Reading note from last year: I kind of regret that I bought the 2001 Faber Children's Classics edition of Noel Langley's The Land of Green Ginger, since it seems to be an abridged version. It is still a funny, lovely story, but most of the Omar Khayyam references (which were among the reasons I wanted to re-read it in the first place) and possible other stuff are left out.
*The tv version was enjoyable, and reasonably faithful to the book, Sylvia/Mr Simpson-subplot notwithstanding. The book is better, though.
Christmas and New Years went well. No household crisis, no illnesses and not much quarreling. Tiny Niece is still young enough to shriek with delight anytime she opens a present, regardless of what she gets.
I've been reading A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire) over the holidays, but I don't think I'll continue with the rest of the series. Martin writes well, but I've grown less and less fond of this kind of fake-medieval, low on supernatural elements fantasy. And while the characters are reasonably complex, I didn't really warm up to anyone of them except for Tyrion, and to a lesser extent Dany.
Reading note from last year: I kind of regret that I bought the 2001 Faber Children's Classics edition of Noel Langley's The Land of Green Ginger, since it seems to be an abridged version. It is still a funny, lovely story, but most of the Omar Khayyam references (which were among the reasons I wanted to re-read it in the first place) and possible other stuff are left out.
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