Further craftiness of the lobster

[elettaria]

I delivered it to the synagogue on Friday evening and it was received with a round of applause and much gratifying marvelling over it, especially the apparently wondrous fact that I hand-sewed it in just over a fortnight. I hope they work out a way to use it as a wall hanging for the High Holydays, they could really do with having something that looks a bit more Jewish in the church that they borrow for those services. Don't get me wrong, that Unitarian church is lovely and as churches go, it's relatively unchurchy-looking, but still, it's a church rather than a synagogue.

In other news, not only am I absolutely bloody shattered from spending four hours at synagogue (I'd forgotten how excruciatingly uncomfortable those chairs are), but I have what has been described by Gerald Durrell as a "rich, bubbling cold" and I want none of it. On the other hand, I've discovered that Potter's Life Drops (tincture of chilli, elderflower and peppermint, very useful stuff but HOT) go well in peppermint tea, and even better when you leave the used peppermint teabag in for the next cup and add a licorice teabag. Electric heating pads are also wondrous things.

I am also rather bored. Audiobook recommendations, anyone? You can see the books I have access to here.

Comments

[leenah.livejournal.com]

i suggest Agnes Grey, and Emma. Emma has problems - it was unfinished by charlotte bronte and has been 'fleshed out', but i still found it interesting.

i adore the brontes. the only thing i haven't read is Shirley - i wonder if an audiobook of it would get me thru? i just can't get past the first chapter.

[elettaria.livejournal.com]

I've never got past the first chapter too. I'm not really in the mood for older lit right now, though. Or at least, not *more* older lit: I'm already listening to Clarissa, and I think that's enough for the time being! I've been subsisting on a diet of Pratchett, thrillers, that sort of thing.

[leenah.livejournal.com]

okay, if you're doing Clarissa, then yes, you have your quota of old lit.

[elettaria.livejournal.com]

Hang on, there's an unfinished novel by Charlotte Bronte called Emma? You're not referring to Austen? Tell me more about it! I've read Anne Bronte once or twice, interesting but as I said, not really in the mood at the moment.

[leenah.livejournal.com]

yes!!! NOT austen.

Emma *Brown*, sorry.

it ends up being a bit more modern than bronte, but it's not pratchett. :)

i'm sorry, i know you might punt me, but i feel i need to tell you that i really do not like pratchett. i read him as trying too hard to be witty.

i've been reading comfort food lately, or thick stuff. Earthsea was a reread this weekend. and i've got a book by Joseph Campbell about Oriental Mythology that i am slowly plowing thru.

i don't like the selection at your library. they don't seem to have campbell. they do have the earthsea books, though apparently NOT the fourth, which is my favorite.

[elettaria.livejournal.com]

I'm currently 43 min into a novel by Tom Sharpe called Ancestral Vices, and bloody hell, is that man trying too hard to be witty! I suppose it's such a personal thing, humour.

My support worker (carer, basically) is reading Earthsea for the first time. I hated the fourth book, I have to say. She wrote it, what is it, several decades after the first three, and I find the change in style is too great and it just doesn't work. But then, most people agree that Le Guin's work is very mixed, although which bits you love and which bits you hate varies enormously.

The selection isn't great, I know, and the categorisation is beyond a joke. Still, it's a fantastic service they're providing, doubtless on minimal funding, and they've not been at it very long.

Emma Brown does look intriguing, I've added it to my bookshelf.