The love of the diver for his world of wavering light. His world of pearls and tendrils and his breath at his breast. Born as a plunger into the deeps he is at one with every swarm of lime green fish, with every coloured sponge.
As he holds himself to the ocean's faery floor, one hand clasped to a bedded whale's rib, he is complete and infinite. Pulse, power and universe sway in his body.
- Mervyn Peake
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Gah! This Blog Has Been Abandoned!
Abandoned at least until January 1st, for no other reason than I married a wonderful man who is a store owner.
It is the Christmas season, the season we celebrate Christ's birth -- and the final quarter of the fiscal year that keeps my children in shoes and tuition and Rick Riordan novels for the rest of the year.
So I will see you lovelies after the Christmas rush.
Until then, go discover a new cabernet that marries nicely with dark chocolate, shop and write well. Let me know what I've missed when I get back, okay?
So I will see you lovelies after the Christmas rush.
Until then, go discover a new cabernet that marries nicely with dark chocolate, shop and write well. Let me know what I've missed when I get back, okay?
Monday, December 6, 2010
Breaking Bad, With Books.
Watching a rerun of Breaking Bad last night got me thinking about my habits. First, if you're not familiar with Breaking Bad, it's about a suburban drug dealer and how his -- work -- affects his family. But my habit's not anything like that, no way. My indulgence?
Books. Lots of them.
"Helen, that's not so bad," you say, but maybe so. I'm a bit OCD when it comes to these pulpy pages filled with Garamond typeface.
Here's how it works: If I buy one book in a series (and I like it) then I HAVE to purchase the series. AND, if I buy the first set of that series in hardcover or trade, I HAVE to finish out the rest of the series in the same format. That way, My Hunger Games hardcover matches the Catching Fire hardcover and so on. Hardbound Forest of Hands and Teeth slides right next to its companion novel, Dead Tossed Waves. However, my Twilight trade soft (you have one or two of the series too so just admit it and move on) which I didn't "hardcover love" will match the rest, though I must admit I loaned out my copy of shark-jumping Breaking Dawn with the request, "Keep it. It's yours."
I borrow a book on my to-be-read list from the library, read it or not, and if I love it, buy the actual. So, tell me writers -- how do you buy your books? And, if you love the first of a series, will you purchase the rest of the set?
Books. Lots of them.
"Helen, that's not so bad," you say, but maybe so. I'm a bit OCD when it comes to these pulpy pages filled with Garamond typeface.
Here's how it works: If I buy one book in a series (and I like it) then I HAVE to purchase the series. AND, if I buy the first set of that series in hardcover or trade, I HAVE to finish out the rest of the series in the same format. That way, My Hunger Games hardcover matches the Catching Fire hardcover and so on. Hardbound Forest of Hands and Teeth slides right next to its companion novel, Dead Tossed Waves. However, my Twilight trade soft (you have one or two of the series too so just admit it and move on) which I didn't "hardcover love" will match the rest, though I must admit I loaned out my copy of shark-jumping Breaking Dawn with the request, "Keep it. It's yours."
I borrow a book on my to-be-read list from the library, read it or not, and if I love it, buy the actual. So, tell me writers -- how do you buy your books? And, if you love the first of a series, will you purchase the rest of the set?
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