h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

As promised

I'm making myself a couple of comfortable days, friday, yesterday and today. Putting up fairy lights and lighting a candle that smells of gingerbread. I've hung up a bundle of birdseed outside, and a few s have already come and inspected it.

I had a late brunch with lots of fruit, I'm trying to eat a little healthier. For my chinese green tea I used my favourite porcelaine-set: an original chinese pot and cups, they're light green with handpainted white blossoms from a very interesting shop, its called Fischer's Lagerhaus (= warehouse). They have a homepage, it's only in German but you can get an idea of the shop by looking at all the photos http://www.fischers-lagerhaus.de/

I'm reading a couple of books at the moment:
Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre - first I thought it a bit kitschy, but now I really like it, I think I would have loved it as a girl. I haven't read a lovestory in ages, it's quite nice, reading something romantic for a change.
James Joyce: Dubliners - I'm reading about a story per week, it's not going so fluently as Jane Eyre. The style is pretty interesting, but it's a bit as if it were only a style-exercise, I like a real story with beginning and end better (at the moment at least).
I also have Mr. Dawkins lying around, but I'm afraid that I'm stuck at chapter 2. I'll give it another try today.
Half for uni is a book about the developement of states in middle-europe since the middle-ages, it's totally non-fiction , not boring, but a little dry.

Do other people sometimes make these musical discoveries as well ? I've got these 2 songs which I really love at the moment, one is Joni Mitchell's "Court and Spark", the other The Clash's "Stay Free". I've had them both on CD for a long time, but I never really noticed the songs before. But now suddenly they strike me .

Sorry to be confusing in the other thread....

I loved Jane Eyre as a girl.

Little Women, have you read that?

No, not yet.

Still have Richard Dawkins lying around. I'm so easily distracted.

I was just reminded today to read Nabokov - Lolita...forgotten that one

I only saw the film version by Stanley Kubrick, but I think in the book, Lolita is even younger. Kubrick's film was made in the US in the 1960s, so probably he wasn't allowed to show a Lolita younger than about 13. Sure would be interesting to read..

Maybe I'll get a few new books for christmas... It has become almost a standard that my sister gives me a Terry Pratchett novel every christmas