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nausicaa83) wrote2014-09-29 12:43 pm
nausicaa83) wrote2014-09-29 12:43 pm
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"Tale as old as time, song as old as rhyme."
Still having a wonderful time with my aunt, it's great. :D Yesterday we spent the whole evening packing my old tv, and today I called the courier. They'll come by tomorrow morning, and by the next day it should arrive at my aunt's place. This way they'll finally have a Full HD tv, and only for 35 euros, the shipping price. I'm very proud of myself. ^^
Today I could finally see the new Once Upon A Time premiere. I loved it! I love both the new princesses, the way they included their story in the Enchanted Forest, and that new magical item at the end made me squeal like a baby! :D But most of all, I loved this:
Skip to 1:40 to see what I mean. I had tears in my eyes! Oh OTP, you're so lovely!
And then I had a wonderful surprise when the mailman rang, and I had a surprise gift from a magazine I subscribed to a couple of months back. It turns out their gift to new subscribers is a video camera!
It's not the best video camera out there, obviously, but it's a nice one, and should work better than my plain camera at making videos. I can't wait to try it! *_____*
Yesterday I also read a new wonderful book, that kept me awake until 1 am, I just couldn't put it down. I highly recommend it to everyone! It's PJ Palacio's Wonder, that couldn't fit in the Reading Bingo but gets a mention here anyway, because it's a fantastic book. It's the story of a kid born with a disease that gives him a "ugly face". We don't get to know what he looks like until much later in the book, but it doesn't really matter: it's a story of disability and how other persons react to persons who aren't "normal". August is a bright kid who starts his first year of school with the fifth grade, and who makes friends, meets bullies, lives life in an environment that can be both hostile and exciting. Some chapters are told by his sister, his friends, and the style adapts to every new narrator. It's a story that doesn't hold back punches but doesn't fall into a sob-fest. It tells life how it is, with the good and the bad, weaknesses and strenghts, and most of all it's the story of a kid with a family who loves him.
None of what I wrote feels worthy of this amazing book, so I'm sorry for that. Words fail me because I loved it very much. ^^ You can find it on Amazon both as a paperback and as a ebook, and I really can't praise it enough.
Tomorrow it'll be another crazy day full of legal tutor appointments and so on, I'm happy I got to have this quiet happy monday to prepare. ^^
Today I could finally see the new Once Upon A Time premiere. I loved it! I love both the new princesses, the way they included their story in the Enchanted Forest, and that new magical item at the end made me squeal like a baby! :D But most of all, I loved this:
Skip to 1:40 to see what I mean. I had tears in my eyes! Oh OTP, you're so lovely!
And then I had a wonderful surprise when the mailman rang, and I had a surprise gift from a magazine I subscribed to a couple of months back. It turns out their gift to new subscribers is a video camera!
It's not the best video camera out there, obviously, but it's a nice one, and should work better than my plain camera at making videos. I can't wait to try it! *_____*
Yesterday I also read a new wonderful book, that kept me awake until 1 am, I just couldn't put it down. I highly recommend it to everyone! It's PJ Palacio's Wonder, that couldn't fit in the Reading Bingo but gets a mention here anyway, because it's a fantastic book. It's the story of a kid born with a disease that gives him a "ugly face". We don't get to know what he looks like until much later in the book, but it doesn't really matter: it's a story of disability and how other persons react to persons who aren't "normal". August is a bright kid who starts his first year of school with the fifth grade, and who makes friends, meets bullies, lives life in an environment that can be both hostile and exciting. Some chapters are told by his sister, his friends, and the style adapts to every new narrator. It's a story that doesn't hold back punches but doesn't fall into a sob-fest. It tells life how it is, with the good and the bad, weaknesses and strenghts, and most of all it's the story of a kid with a family who loves him. None of what I wrote feels worthy of this amazing book, so I'm sorry for that. Words fail me because I loved it very much. ^^ You can find it on Amazon both as a paperback and as a ebook, and I really can't praise it enough.
Tomorrow it'll be another crazy day full of legal tutor appointments and so on, I'm happy I got to have this quiet happy monday to prepare. ^^