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From the department of cool things happening to other people: Yoon Ha Lee has sold his hexarchate trilogy to Solaris Books. I have read the first two of these books and they are brilliant; I am deeply looking forward to the ability to file them on my shelf in print. Read "The Battle of Candle Arc" if you want an idea of the universe, along with the forthcoming stories "Calendrical Rot" and "Gamer's End," and then join me in waiting with poor patience until next June.
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ladymondegreen sent me a care package of selkie materials, including a DVD of Ondine (2009). Thank you so much! I look forward to rewatching it, which is as close to the sea as I can get right now.
It saddens me that neither of the extant film versions of Her Cardboard Lover (1928 and 1942) star Leslie Howard, who originated the eponymous leading man on Broadway opposite Jeanne Engels in 1927, but at least I have the Guardian's review of a production with him and Tallulah Bankhead. Looking for images of him in the role seems to have netted me a fashion profile. Works for me.
Tonight is my brother's belated birthday observed. We must leave the house before the storm hits and we drown while waiting for a bus.
From the department of cool things happening to me:
ladymondegreen sent me a care package of selkie materials, including a DVD of Ondine (2009). Thank you so much! I look forward to rewatching it, which is as close to the sea as I can get right now.It saddens me that neither of the extant film versions of Her Cardboard Lover (1928 and 1942) star Leslie Howard, who originated the eponymous leading man on Broadway opposite Jeanne Engels in 1927, but at least I have the Guardian's review of a production with him and Tallulah Bankhead. Looking for images of him in the role seems to have netted me a fashion profile. Works for me.
Tonight is my brother's belated birthday observed. We must leave the house before the storm hits and we drown while waiting for a bus.
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Yay selkies. :)
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We went to a nice restaurant and his year-and-a-half-old daughter totally charmed the owner/chef by adoring the amuse-bouches of watermelon with balsamic vinegar and ricotta salata—she ate something like five of them, disdaining the pasta her parents had ordered for her. And then we went home and ate the strawberry shortcake my mother had made and it turned out my parents had gotten him a very fancy torque wrench for his birthday, which he adored. It was fun.
Yay selkies.
Always.
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I was totally not expecting it! I liked the blue Pal Zileri sport coat, too.
(Regarding the second sentence, I wonder if Howard was christened. I had always assumed not. His parents were married at the West London Synagogue. You know, I never thought I would find myself wondering if Leslie Howard had a bris.)
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A very happy birthday to your brother!
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Thank you! See below: we avoided drowning and it seems to have been a good birthday observed. My parents gave him a torque wrench.
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We brought the umbrella all the way out to Lexington, so of course it only thundered and did not rain!
A very happy birthday to your brother!
I think it was! We took him out to dinner and then there were presents and cake. His daughter charmed the restaurant.
[edit] Truly, thank you for the care package. It is a much needed infusion of sea.
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I am glad that dinner was so nice and that your niece is capable of charming buildings as well as diners.
I am so glad that the care package had its intended effect. I've been at something of a loss as to how to send you the sea. A working portal gun or one of those doors to anywhere would be a huge help.
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Someday we will have a car and that will be almost as useful, although not entirely. Thank you for finding one of the next best ways.
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Yoon Ha Lee has a really cool imagination. I remember when you recc'd "Swansong" to me--that was good. Recently I've read a number of other stories from Conservation of Shadows, because Yoon's going to be one of the guests at Sirens Conference this year and, in a wonderful one-off, I will be going. My favorite of the ones I read was "Iseul's Lexicon." I'm glad to hear about the book deal!
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I plan to show it to
I'm glad to hear about the book deal!
If you (the generic reader; I know how you personally felt!) liked Ancillary Justice, there is a non-zero probability you will like Ninefox Gambit. Leckie's work is the only other space opera that's ever felt anything like the hexarchate books to me.
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I have a question to ask: do you know any active LJ community where a supernatural interpretation of "I Capture the Castle" by Dodi Smith would be welcome? I've read it recently and I have a lot of hunches and suspictions about "what really happened"... Pity Cassandra was to practical to suspect it :^))))))
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Huh. I don't think of her as a potential selkie so much as aligned with a similar mythos, but the shape-changing element is very powerful for me.
I have a question to ask: do you know any active LJ community where a supernatural interpretation of "I Capture the Castle" by Dodi Smith would be welcome?
Sadly, I don't! I do not belong to any LJ communities specifically centered around literature. I'm curious what your interpretation is, though.
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Well, neither do I, but the potential is here. Actually the genres seem different: most people learn about selkies from folktales and about Melusine from some mythology course (at least, I did). Yet, one man "selkie fishrewife" would be other man's Melusine.
I'll work a bit about my supernatural interpretation of "Castle" and send it to you as a personal message on LJ (actually Smith left broad hints (to say the least) in the text)).
Have you seen this? Maybe it qualifies as selkie material too http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1865505/
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My general theory is that the castle wanted to help the family that restored it back into its medieval shape... and so the castle sends the Cottons to help them. The Cottons are either real human beings or some... things made by the castle to help the Cottons and then go away (actually, we only have Rose's word that she is living in California, it could be a ranch on Avalon...)
Off-topic: film rec