HELLO INTERNET

[kivrin]

The neighbors fixed the router today. We're going to continue with the plan to get our own, but now at least we have connectivity while waiting for our own service to be activated, and for the hardware to arrive. O HAPPY INTERNET, NEVER LEAVE ME AGAIN.

I want to adopt Richard Wilson as my great-uncle. [points to icon, made by mrs_leary.] Last night breadandroses and greyhoundliz and I watched "The Empty Child" and "The Doctor Dances," in which he plays Dr. Constantine. And is awesome.

Today the local thrift store was having the semi-traditional three-day-weekend fifty-percent-off-all-clothing sale. Neither breadandroses nor I had the oomph for serious trying-on, but I paid $1.23 for a pair of jeans that fit comfortably (if a bit loosely in the crotch), and 99 cents for three books: a volume of Robin McKinley short stories, a Jean Little book about a family fleeing Germany in the early 1930s, and a sequel to Elizabeth Winthrop's The Castle In The Attic. Then we went downtown and ate deli foods and bought more books. JUST A FEW, THOUGH, REALLY. Anne of Green Gables and Playing Beattie Bow and Annie On My Mind. We were going to go to Trader Joe's, but every other yuppie and not-overprincipled-hippie in the metro area was there already, so we just went home.

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[tx-cronopio.livejournal.com]

Do you know, I've never read Anne of Green Gables? It's one of those inexplicable gaps in my cultural education :)

[kivrin.livejournal.com]

I have to say I am much more fond of other books in L.M. Montgomery's oeuvre - The Blue Castle in particular, as well as Jane of Lantern Hill. I do recommend AoGG for a quick, soothing bedtime read, though, if Nineteenth Century Girly Books are a genre you enjoy. (If not, RUN AWAYYYY from it!)

Time Travel

[(Anonymous)]

Playing Beattie Bow is great! I had given a friend in Australia one of the Betsy-Tacy books and she sent it as a thank you.

I like Jean Little too. Was it From Anna?

Re: Time Travel

[kivrin.livejournal.com]

The Jean Little is From Anna! I really enjoyed it. I liked the intersectionality of it; that it was a Depression story and a rise-of-fascism story and a people-with-disabilities-are-PEOPLE story.

Aw, Betsy-Tacy! I should reread those... and read the later Betsy books that I never read (except for the one where she goes to Europe, that one I remember.)