Archive for the ‘24-hour read-a-thon: April 2009’ tag.
Sunday 19 April 2009, 02:58 pm
Three Bags Full: Sheep detectives! Their shepherd has been murdered and the sheep want to find out who did it.
Who’s seen Shaun the Sheep? It’s a very cute and funny stop-motion animated series about a very smart sheep called Shaun and his herd and his shepherd and the sheep dog. I keep imagining the sheep in the book would look like the sheep in the show. XD
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Going down for a late lunch of leftover pasta.
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Updates:
Currently reading: Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann
Pages read: pp 1 to 41
Books finished:
Moonbird by Joyce Dunbar and Jane Ray (32 pages)
The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale (383 pages)
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (118 pages)
Total page count: 618
Books on hold: Race of Scorpions by Dorothy Dunnett
Sunday 19 April 2009, 01:59 pm
The Little Prince: Care was pointing out in the last post that there’s a lot of critical analysis on this one (the book’s introduction itself had some of that) but I’m just not inclined to check it out, I guess.
Alas. The whole big allegory escapes me this time.
Uh. The illustrations were cute!
Three Bags Full: Just starting this one. There are funny pictures of sheep at the bottom of the pages!
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Hey ho. Still plodding along. Nothing much else to do. Besides, who’d be able to sleep in this heat anyway? Weather report says it’s 32 °C with a humidity of 66%.
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Updates:
Currently reading: Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann
Pages read: just starting it!
Books finished:
Moonbird by Joyce Dunbar and Jane Ray (32 pages)
The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale (383 pages)
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (118 pages)
Total page count: 577
Books on hold: Race of Scorpions by Dorothy Dunnett
Sunday 19 April 2009, 12:59 pm
The Little Prince: It’s still strange. Is it an . . . an allegory to something?
Finished the story, actually, but there’s a section “Letter to a Hostage” at the end I haven’t read, and I skipped all the introductory pages at the beginning.
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I fell asleep for a bit. At first I thought I missed an hour, but apparently I was only asleep for a few minutes?
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Updates:
Currently reading: The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Pages read: pp 44 to 103
Books finished:
Moonbird by Joyce Dunbar and Jane Ray (32 pages)
The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale (383 pages)
Total page count: 562
Books on hold: Race of Scorpions by Dorothy Dunnett
Sunday 19 April 2009, 11:55 am
The Little Prince: Baobabs? And . . . kings?
Whimsical and strange. Am I missing something?
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Updates:
Currently reading: The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Pages read: pp 1 to 43
Books finished:
Moonbird by Joyce Dunbar and Jane Ray (32 pages)
The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale (383 pages)
Total page count: 502
Books on hold: Race of Scorpions by Dorothy Dunnett
Sunday 19 April 2009, 10:57 am
Race of Scorpions: Sometimes some of the lines seem so ludicrous I have to pause and think and then after a bit I start giggling. I quote you one:
“The lady Marietta of Patras had several noses: some of wax and some, of various shapes, in painted wood.”
This charming lady is also known as Cropnose.
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It’s hot, and I think I drifted off. I lost 15 minutes and my place on the page.
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Updates:
Currently reading: Race of Scorpions by Dorothy Dunnett
Pages read: pp 303 to 310
Books finished:
Moonbird by Joyce Dunbar and Jane Ray (32 pages)
The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale (383 pages)
Total page count: 459
