nausicaa83: (<calvin & hobbes> 78 rpm)
New entry on the Reading Bingo:



For the "A Book Set In A Different Continent" square I chose Bill Watterson's The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, since I live in Europe and Calvin & Hobbes is set in North America (and random distant planets).

I first read Calvin & Hobbes a few years back, and fell in love with it instantly. It was an old torrent file of jpegs of all the strips, but the quality wasn't great, just what you'd find on go-comics. I'd been wanting to buy the complete collection for a while, and then a couple of weeks ago I watched Dear Mr Watterson and that convinced me to buy it. I'm so glad I did, because the quality is amazing: the colours are crisp and the strips are bigger than in the newspapers, and you can really see all the details. Plus there's a great intro by Mr Watterson himself, and the paper smells amazing. The sunday strips are worth the purchase alone, and it's truly complete, with the poems and illustrations from the books too. Not to mention I've had a bit of insomnia these past few days, and reading the strips under the covers helped a lot.

I've just finished the third volume, and I already want to start reading it all over again. It never gets old. I'm sitting here laughing just thinking of Hobbes saying "smock, smock, smock!". :D
nausicaa83: (<avengers> r&r)
Two days after, I'm not in pain anymore, I mostly have that weird sensation of stitches pulling on the skin. Today I can start disinfecting them, and while I'm still on that same stupid diet, and thus perpetually hungry, I can work with that I learned last time. Like, boiled potatoes left in the fridge for an hour and then cut into little pieces taste great and don't need any work on my teeth's part. Yesterday I almost bought a couple of jars of baby food: I had Carolyn Knapp-Shappey's voice in my head telling me all about "baby chicken", but when I had it in my hand it looked so disgusting that I just couldn't. Yuk. I'd rather go a whole week without any meat.

The good thing is that everything else works perfectly, so I've been practicing on my ukulele, mostly fingerpicking (I suck so much at fingerpicking), and slowly working through my Netflix's list. I watched Dear Mr Watterson, a documentary about Calvin & Hobbes, and Stripped, another documentary on the history of comic strips, where you can actually hear Bill Watterson's voice doing an interview. First and only time! They were both really interesting, and I learned a lot of things, like the fact that The Beatlesøns did a fantastic version of The Yukon Song, and I've grown quite obsessed with it. :D

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