"Step out into the wild, there's a beautiful storm in your eyes."

[nausicaa83]

I can't believe I haven't posted anything here in more than a week! Unacceptable!

To be fair nothing much happened, it's been a quiet winter week. In the afternoons I help my aunt over the phone with her English homework: ever since our London trip last year she's wanted to learn the language, and a couple of months ago she started an English course. Yesterday we spent two hours working on pronouns, and doing simple conversations, "nice to meet you" "this is my wife" "no, I'm not French". She was worried it would bore me, but I actually enjoy it a lot.

On sunday I did a little Just Dance marathon. In the new game you can send challenges to other players, and the multiplayer works a lot better than before. I spent more than two hours dancing with a girl from Canada, two boys from Brazil, and a girl from Russia. It was great fun, until I woke up the morning after and I couldn't even lift my arms. Still worth it. :D

Today I suddenly realized the actor playing King Richard in Galavant is Cain from Supernatural. Yes, it took me three weeks. Embarassing. Speaking of, I'm enjoying the show a lot more. It still has problems with the plot, and there's little character development, but the musical numbers are amazing, and it is really funny. Plus the guest stars are incredible. I shouted out in glee more than once. When Rutger Hauer appeared in all his awesome Dutch glory in the latest episode I jumped out of my chair and screamed his name out loud, thus startling the cat off my lap. :D God, I do hope he gets a musical number next week!

I've also learned how to play Elliot Smith's Between The Bars with my ukulele, and I'm so proud of it. Being an alto my voice works best with soulful tunes written for male voices, and with the inherent cheerfulness of the instrument the final effect is great, if I do say so myself. ;)

There are also news on the Reading Bingo side: the original blog did make a new card, but it's a Canadian card. Half of the squares do not even make any sense to my European brain, so I went ahead and co-wrote a new card with the lovely entangled_now. And then asked a dear friend of mine to use her photoshop skills to make the actual card. If any of you would like to join in, I'll publish the card here as soon as it's in my hands!

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[silviarambles]

I like the idea of the Bingo, even if I'm not sure I'll actually manage. But, I'd love to see the card :)

[nausicaa83.livejournal.com]

Here's the list we came up with:

1- A Book With A Female Heroine
2- The First Book In A Series
3- A Borrowed Book
4- A Book With Magic
5- A Book Of Non-Fiction
6- A Book With More Than 400 Pages
7- A Book Published This Year
8- A Book By A Female Author
9- A Book With Pictures
10- A Book With An Animal On The Cover
11- A Book With A Red Cover
12- A Best-Selling Book
13- Free Square
14- A Book That Is More Than 50 Years Old
15- A Book With A Three-Word Title
16- A Short Book
17- A Book Set In The Future
18- A "Classic" Book
19- A Book Set In The Past
20- A Book With A Colour In The Title
21- A Book You've Read Before
22- A Book Set In Another World
23- A Book Set In The Winter
24- A Book Outside Your Comfort Zone
25- A Book That Made You Laugh

We took inspiration from last year's card, and tried to reach a happy compromise between things we like and things outside our comfort zone. ^^

[entangled-now.livejournal.com]

I thought Galavant sounded a bit silly when I first heard about it, but all the people watching it seem to be liking it a lot, so I might try and catch it.

I have already read a scary book for one of my squares!

[nausicaa83.livejournal.com]

I must warn you, it's not great with handling the plot. The characters get moved around like pieces on a board, the guest stars jump in do their song and bow out, and there's basically no character development. The main character, Galavant, is the blandest character ever written.

But the songs are really good, and the villains are great, plus the whole concept is fun. It's just, they could have written it better, and it would have been a masterpiece. As it is, it's just something cute that'll leave you humming the songs.

[shiinait.livejournal.com]

Passavo di qua per caso ;P

C'è di nuovo il reading bingo? Io pensavo che esistesse la reading challenge (che l'avesse rimpiazzato a dir la verità...). La conosci? Se farai un reading bingo parteciperò *_*

[nausicaa83.livejournal.com]

C'è la reading challenge su Goodreads, come sempre. L'anno scorso ne ho letti 35, quest'anno mi sfido a leggerne 30, se no era troppo faticoso. Il bingo invece non lo fanno più (a parte quella strana versione canadese), così l'unico normale sarà  questo qui casalingo. Spero ti piacerà! *-*