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Saturday February 27, 2010 I love that I continuously challenge myself. Sometimes this can be a curse, sometimes this can be a direction. Sometimes this means that you don't get to sleep at night because you are constantly thinking of ways to better yourself.
I took this on my break. I don't actually work in the bookstacks putting them away, I mainly work at the desk checking them in and out. In a book today I found a postcard from someone's vacation.
Tonight a concert at a local venue, tomorrow schoolwork.
Jacqueline Carey grimly spoofs the Lord of the Rings. Who's evil? Who's good? The elves here are terrible racist snobs, humanity is no better, the Gods are either absent or horrific. Oh, they're not orcs, please. Dragons, dwarfs, and 'heroes'.
Andrew Schrader writes spoofy, somewhat cheesy horror and heroic fantasy. Well done.
Gabriel Squailia's world is odd, insect-y, obsessed with body-horror and gender identity. The gods might be dead but their body parts are usable for other purposes. Not for the easily offended or squeamish.
It's Jack Vance! My favorite author. Here's a collection of early-ish stories, some of which I'd never read.
Brendan Bellecourt (Bradley Beaulieu) writes a steampunk ('deco-punk') tale set in the years after WW I, with robots (of course), super science, evil scientists and monstrous conspiracies. Fun and deeply paranoid.
And a collection of articles about my recent (plant) obsession. Brad had an interesting sense of humor.
An amazing book store in Halifax. We wandered in becasue the site of piles and towers of books stacked in the windows made us curious. There were towers up to the ceiling, windows cut out through books, stairs lined w/ books. There were narrow corridors and twists and turns - some you could not even get through.
If there is anything called madly in love
This is it
Irrationality is overwhelming
Every bit of logic and sense
And I know
I will never love another like I do again
[At a Book Festival, Senayan, Jakarta]
Avoiding — So I’ve been avoiding this series ever since I read the third book when it came out, which was suppose to be the end of the series, but then it wasn’t and I haven’t picked up a Cassandra Clare book since (besides rereading City of Bones last year and being really disappointed with it). I’ve just been really hesitant to reenter this world, especially with my expectations so high. My goal is to read/reread the books before the last book comes out. But who knows, maybe that won’t be the last book, again.
The Opposable Mind was just finished today. This jumped out at the perfect time as I spend 2007 integrating my skills, passions and people and teams at work. This book is a bit repetitive, but describes and motivates to go beyond yes and no. Take the best of everything and shake it all about with your experience, understanding of complexity that is life, reflect and move ahead to mastery and originality in the way you think and things you do.
More selections from the K-12 collection in the southwest corner of the ground-level stacks in the Education Library.
note the old old facebook layout (and that it was still [thefacebook] at the time). this was her profile picture for a long time.
English Faculty Library. University of Cambridge.
Through the bookstacks on the Ground Floor.
Copyright: libraries@cambridge
Credit: Rachel Marsh