Tagged: bibliophilia

I worked 11 hours today and then I came home and baked a cake. I am officially too tired to think of anything to write. So I leave you with this, which is something someone else wrote but which I could have: “Explaining the moment of connection between a reader and a book to someone who’s never experienced it is like trying to describe sex to a virgin. A friend of mine says that when he meets a book he loves, he starts to shake involuntarily. For me, the feeling comes in a rush: I’m reading along and suddenly a...

Man, I wish Livejournal had run their special on permanent accounts a month ago!! 🙁 poo. Saving for summer vacation and puppies must take priority, however. I’m very boring today. Work has eaten every brain cell I had left, and chewed them up and spit them out. Grey pulpy brain cells lying wadded up in the bottom of my mental spittoon. HAHAHAHA!! EW. (hee!) You would laugh if you could have seen me just now. I wrote that, then I sat here and snorted giggles through my nose until my eyes watered. Then I had to put my head down...

Holy untame lions, Aslan. I just watched the trailer for the upcoming The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. *chills* It looks, as with a very few books-to-film, that they might have gotten it right. There aren’t very many films of books that really get it right, although it does seem like filmmakers are getting better at it. Anne of Green Gables was one. Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter were both the work of genius in bringing books to life, although I actually felt that the first Harry Potter film did almost TOO good a job. It was...