An almost languid Friday
Jul. 13th, 2007 04:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eve_primeToday's first stop was Amazon Park, where I watched the Mad Duckling Theatre's presentation of James and the Giant Peach with D. and his summer program classmates. Then, campus, where I bought a mouse, headphones, and a book called The Psychology of Harry Potter and picked up Black Sea and a few other things at the library. Then home, where I worked a bit and read.
I should read Sally Talbot's Partial Reason before Jane Bennett's The Enchantment of Modern Life, because it's due first, but her writing style is so dry. For example, when naming her book, did she think about how for many people "partial" is more readily contrasted with "whole" than "impartial"?
I also started Gertrude Bell's Persian Pictures, but the first chapter (a glimpse of Tehran) reminded me too much of Edmondo de Amici's amusingly flowery descriptions in Constantinople, which I quoted in one of my first LJ posts.
Okay, time to water the garden and try to shift gears towards reading the sixth Harry Potter book...
I should read Sally Talbot's Partial Reason before Jane Bennett's The Enchantment of Modern Life, because it's due first, but her writing style is so dry. For example, when naming her book, did she think about how for many people "partial" is more readily contrasted with "whole" than "impartial"?
I also started Gertrude Bell's Persian Pictures, but the first chapter (a glimpse of Tehran) reminded me too much of Edmondo de Amici's amusingly flowery descriptions in Constantinople, which I quoted in one of my first LJ posts.
Okay, time to water the garden and try to shift gears towards reading the sixth Harry Potter book...