sovay: (Lord Peter Wimsey: passion)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2014-07-31 09:19 pm

We could be responsible—anything is possible

1. We have a bed! Or at least we will have a bed once the futon frame we ordered this afternoon arrives as it is expected to do next weekend! I am so looking forward to my back not hurting every morning!

2. [personal profile] yhlee sent me an amazing handmade-looking CD in a painted cardboard case. It's called The Sonic Arcana, subtitled Music Written for the Cheimonette Tarot, which I had never heard of, but it looks pretty great. Musicians I recognize include Jill Tracy and Meredith Yayanos. I am enjoying it tremendously so far.

(Did I mention that [livejournal.com profile] selidor sent me a postcard from Iceland this month? With a picture of an old map and a story of visiting Þingvellir.)

3. On our way home from ordering the bed, [livejournal.com profile] derspatchel and I passed the racks of dollar books outside the Harvard Book Store and stopped to browse, as is the norm. Why, yes, rack of dollar books, I would like an attractive paperback reprint of Patrick Leigh Fermor's A Time of Gifts (1977) with introduction by Jan Morris and M. John Harrison's A Storm of Wings (1980) in a completely battered ex-library edition dedicated to Harlan Ellison, thank you.

So all of that's good.
yhlee: Alto clef and whole note (middle C). (alto clef)

[personal profile] yhlee 2014-08-01 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
The Cheimonette Tarot was a recently Kickstarted Tarot. The art wasn't my cuppa, but I got the music and thought I'd pass on the physical CD. I'm glad it reached you safely!
phi: (Default)

[personal profile] phi 2014-08-01 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
We have a bed!

Congratulations!
larryhammer: floral print origami penguin, facing left (Default)

[personal profile] larryhammer 2014-08-01 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
Þingvellir is the sort of place where you come out with stories. (Janni even got a novel there.)

---L.

[identity profile] ashlyme.livejournal.com 2014-08-02 02:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Hurrah for all of this! The Cheimonette Tarot is sumptuous.

"A Storm Of Wings" was the first Harrison I read. (Bought in Devon '85, terrible cover of a wasp-ravished woman; cheers, Chris Achilleos.) The ghost of Benedict Paucemanly did my twelve-year-old head in.
spatch: (Typewriter Guy)

[personal profile] spatch 2014-08-08 02:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Why, yes, rack of dollar books, I would like an attractive paperback reprint of Patrick Leigh Femor's A Time of Gifts (1977) with introduction by Jan Morris and M. John Harrison's A Storm of Wings (1980) in a completely battered ex-library edition dedicated to Harlan Ellison, thank you.

I was quite pleased to have scored a small copy of My Father's Dragon, the first two Red Dwarf novelizations, plus The Stainless Steel Rat Goes to Hell. What a haul that day was.