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Buried gold
Oct. 12th, 2010 10:20 pmJust a smattering of notes for now...
I tore right through Antique Bakery and enjoyed it very much (and have an urge to say, "see, that's how you wrap up with a turn for the dramatic!"). I want to write a full report but don't so much feel up to it right now, so I'll put it off until I think I could do it a little more justice...
I'm also clipping along reading "No Longer Human." It's a relatively short novel, under 200 pages, dark and angsty, but I'm enjoying it. I am also now convinced about reading the books along with watching Aoi Bungaku, since I had actually watched the first half of the adaptation of "No Longer Human" and am finding how important it is to compare and contrast (the movie was a good enough movie on its own terms, but as an adaptation it kind of seems like "Takeshi Obata's Bram Stoker's 'No Longer Human'"). Being convinced of the method, I went ahead and ordered the book I mentioned needing and jotted down the call number of the other one from the library for next time I'm there.
Mom and I have been trying to clean up some of the junk in the old trailers, and today she came across something I'd forgotten about but that was kind of a fond memory. In high school, I did a project where I read a book to elementary classes (I actually won the district speech competition in Storytelling---contrary to popular belief, did nothing to cure my shyness...). The book was "Hans and the Golden Stirrup," and I think a bag of gold nuggets was also involved, and I had actually made the props. We had some scrap velveteen around and made the bag, and my teacher had gotten a bunch of metallic gold contact paper somewhere, so I used that and some ribbon to make the stirrup, and for the gold nuggets, I kind of wadded the contact paper around packing foam pieces, which made very nice gold nuggets, and I seem to recall handing them out to the kids... Of course, it had gotten ratty in the meantime and I have no need for it now, so it all went out to the trash, but it was a nice memory it brought up, so I wanted to record it here...
PS: Also, going to Goodwill are a Sailor Moon and a Bubblegum Crisis poster I found stashed somewhere. And now that I think of it, the Fushigi Yuugi wall-scroll...
I tore right through Antique Bakery and enjoyed it very much (and have an urge to say, "see, that's how you wrap up with a turn for the dramatic!"). I want to write a full report but don't so much feel up to it right now, so I'll put it off until I think I could do it a little more justice...
I'm also clipping along reading "No Longer Human." It's a relatively short novel, under 200 pages, dark and angsty, but I'm enjoying it. I am also now convinced about reading the books along with watching Aoi Bungaku, since I had actually watched the first half of the adaptation of "No Longer Human" and am finding how important it is to compare and contrast (the movie was a good enough movie on its own terms, but as an adaptation it kind of seems like "Takeshi Obata's Bram Stoker's 'No Longer Human'"). Being convinced of the method, I went ahead and ordered the book I mentioned needing and jotted down the call number of the other one from the library for next time I'm there.
Mom and I have been trying to clean up some of the junk in the old trailers, and today she came across something I'd forgotten about but that was kind of a fond memory. In high school, I did a project where I read a book to elementary classes (I actually won the district speech competition in Storytelling---contrary to popular belief, did nothing to cure my shyness...). The book was "Hans and the Golden Stirrup," and I think a bag of gold nuggets was also involved, and I had actually made the props. We had some scrap velveteen around and made the bag, and my teacher had gotten a bunch of metallic gold contact paper somewhere, so I used that and some ribbon to make the stirrup, and for the gold nuggets, I kind of wadded the contact paper around packing foam pieces, which made very nice gold nuggets, and I seem to recall handing them out to the kids... Of course, it had gotten ratty in the meantime and I have no need for it now, so it all went out to the trash, but it was a nice memory it brought up, so I wanted to record it here...
PS: Also, going to Goodwill are a Sailor Moon and a Bubblegum Crisis poster I found stashed somewhere. And now that I think of it, the Fushigi Yuugi wall-scroll...
