(no subject)

[aprilstarchild]

Now that I've read Stardust, and fallen completely in love with it, I am truly scared of the movie. Even if they do a good job, it won't look like it does in my head.

And the end is so happy and so sad at the same time. Waaaaah! *snif*

So, Gaiman: I've read Good Omens, American Gods, Neverwhere, and Stardust. *le sigh* I love it all. Want more. *lol*

---

Dinner: Pasta, frozen broccoli, "cream" sauce (made exactly like normal cream sauce--margarine instead of butter, soymilk instead of milk) with Italian Seasoning and a bit of nutritional yeast. Way fast and cheap and yum.

Comments

one word:

[common-as-stone.livejournal.com]

Sandman

Re: one word:

[aprilstarchild.livejournal.com]

Planning on it. I have a friend willing to loan them to me, as Powell's never seems to have the first one on the shelf.

Re: one word:

[vashtiabukhalil.livejournal.com]

I'd lend you "The Dream Hunters" but the copy I have has been signed by the author. But I can lend "Doll's House" "A Game of You" and the last book in the series. "Coraline" is out of the question cuz' MOLLY STILL HAS IT FOR OVER THE TIME SET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Gr.

[sagcat.livejournal.com]

Did you read the Stardust illustrated by Charles Vess? If not, you should definitely page through our copy sometime soon. Vess' vision is spectacular, and it's definitely how I see it in my head.

It's still my favorite Gaiman book. If you're looking for another, grab Coroline.

[aprilstarchild.livejournal.com]

I wanted to read it unillustrated first, but I'd love to see the one Charles Vess did.

The Flea is not for you!

[vashtiabukhalil.livejournal.com]

It's spelt "Coraline".

[mechalith.livejournal.com]

Anansi Boys (can't remember if you read it already or not, but it's not in your mini-list), The Books of Magic, Sandman...

I love Neil Gaiman to tiny bits.

[inverted-man.livejournal.com]

Hey there...I went to At Mahan in Keflavik circa 1988. When did you go?

[aprilstarchild.livejournal.com]

I moved there in July of 1989, I think...I went into fifth grade that fall. You?

[inverted-man.livejournal.com]

I think I was just leaving at that time. I had already moved over to the AT Mahan High School at that point (7th grade).

I was the first student council president the elementary school ever had. It was a disaster of a student council, actually.

My teacher's name was Mr. Kirstein.

[aprilstarchild.livejournal.com]

Oh hell, I can't remember any of my teachers' names. *lol*

I recently looked up AT Mahan on Google Images...I found pictures from some reading event a few years ago. They remodeled the elementary school while I was in sixth grade, and everything looked exactly the same, down to where the piano was!

I lived in the townhouse-kinda things....my house was literally behind Top of the Rock (which was across the street from the comissary), walking distance from the high school. All those houses are gone now. If you have Google Earth you can look at it from above--it's weird to see a huge empty space where there was a loop of road and old townhouses all around it. Ah, 1049-D. ;^) I can remember my phone number too, 7843. I have such a bad head for names, though.

Did you do stuff at the Youth Center? The summer before sixth grade I went there every day, they had something akin to day care for kids too old for normal day care. I used to do overnight parties there too... hahaha I can remember dancing to Janet Jackson and New Kids on the Block and MC Hammer...with the disco lights and all that. I think it's where I really developed my current love of dancing...I also took ballet lessons there, I was in the Nutcracker three times!

Stardust

[touchstoneaf.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I know that one; but it sounds familiar. hmmm... *goes to look it up*
I'm still reeling and ambivalent about them making a movie version of the Celestine Prophecies. Not sure if I wanna see that or not! If they ruin that bit about the Birth Orgasm of the Universe, I will be SO miffed!!! That like, INSTANTLY became a part of my personal mythology!

Re: Stardust

[aprilstarchild.livejournal.com]

I tried to read that several years ago, and just couldn't get through it.

Re: Stardust

[touchstoneaf.livejournal.com]

its worth going back through it just for the aforementioned Pagan Big Bang. *mind is still reeling just remembering it*

i'm going to go reread that part tonight!