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Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Jun. 14th, 2011 10:44 pmThis morning Mama drove me to a lab to drop off some lab work for my next doctor’s visit and then we got some errands done. Since she needed to go to a store where all the cards are on sale I took advantage of it and remembered to buy Bear a birthday card. I wrapped his presents this evening. He will have to wait a few days until I see him to open them, though (his birthday is tomorrow, he is exactly thirteen days younger than me).
Once I got home I also had to call Travelocity because they overcharged me 4c. I called my credit card first to make sure it wasn’t their mistake and then I called Travelocity who blamed it on technical error and refunded me. I don’t care much about 4c but that is how fraud usually starts. Calling my credit card company is usually very annoying because they have that automatic phone voice – the most annoying thing ever invented. I always feel like throwing my phone at the wall. No, I don’t want to repeat anything, connect me to a human being!
I started reading Thomas Hardy’s “Far from Madding Crowd.” God, the language. I love his turns of phrase so much. I only read “Mayor of Casterbridge” which I loved for its complex characters and an anti-hero but this story has me from the first chapter just from the language. He is very funny too. Some of the descriptions have me laughing. (I have a soft spot for Hardy because we share a birthday; he is 140 years older than me but I like his writing too.) As I was looking up information on this book I discovered that the main character in “The Hunger Games” was partially named for the main female character in this book, which is really a coincidence for me.
First sentence, just to show the language of it: “When Farmer Oak smiled, the corners of his mouth spread till they were within an unimportant distance of his ears, his eyes were reduced to chinks, and diverging wrinkles appeared round them, extending upon his countenance like the rays in a rudimentary sketch of the rising sun.”
I also bought “Torchwood: Ghost Train” audiobook. Partly I bought it because it downloads into Kindle and I wanted to try that out. (or at least that is what I’m telling myself). This one is read by Kai Owen, the actor who plays Rhys and it is from his POV. I adore Rhys and I always like stories told from the side character’s point of view who sort of on the sidelines of the whole saving the world business and then they get involved in the adventure. Reminds me of the “Zeppo” a bit. And it is pretty funny too. A few laugh out loud moments.
Once I got home I also had to call Travelocity because they overcharged me 4c. I called my credit card first to make sure it wasn’t their mistake and then I called Travelocity who blamed it on technical error and refunded me. I don’t care much about 4c but that is how fraud usually starts. Calling my credit card company is usually very annoying because they have that automatic phone voice – the most annoying thing ever invented. I always feel like throwing my phone at the wall. No, I don’t want to repeat anything, connect me to a human being!
I started reading Thomas Hardy’s “Far from Madding Crowd.” God, the language. I love his turns of phrase so much. I only read “Mayor of Casterbridge” which I loved for its complex characters and an anti-hero but this story has me from the first chapter just from the language. He is very funny too. Some of the descriptions have me laughing. (I have a soft spot for Hardy because we share a birthday; he is 140 years older than me but I like his writing too.) As I was looking up information on this book I discovered that the main character in “The Hunger Games” was partially named for the main female character in this book, which is really a coincidence for me.
First sentence, just to show the language of it: “When Farmer Oak smiled, the corners of his mouth spread till they were within an unimportant distance of his ears, his eyes were reduced to chinks, and diverging wrinkles appeared round them, extending upon his countenance like the rays in a rudimentary sketch of the rising sun.”
I also bought “Torchwood: Ghost Train” audiobook. Partly I bought it because it downloads into Kindle and I wanted to try that out. (or at least that is what I’m telling myself). This one is read by Kai Owen, the actor who plays Rhys and it is from his POV. I adore Rhys and I always like stories told from the side character’s point of view who sort of on the sidelines of the whole saving the world business and then they get involved in the adventure. Reminds me of the “Zeppo” a bit. And it is pretty funny too. A few laugh out loud moments.
