Membro: twilightnocturne

*listens* Oooh, I think a friend of mine mentioned Emily Autumn before. Can't remember, but that definitely sounds like a fun album! (Er, fairytale/folktale nut here, though I'm still building up the collection that makes you realise this... I don't care if I like her music, I must have that album you mentioned.)

Oh, I should make a collection of fairytale-related stuff. Just for the fun of it you understand...

It's been decided that, when I finally get my BA, I shall reward myself by attending one of their concerts (in Ireland). I absolutely hate concerts - they're too loud and too crowded even when there's seating - so for me that's a huge thing.

Yeah, computers do that sometimes. I've no idea what it is, but I suspect it's something getting lodged wrong in the keyboard.

The Decemberists have some gorgeous lyrics. ^-^ And a very odd voice quality that somehow just works (for me).

On a semi-related note: I'm mostly free to read what I want now! I can finally, finally start reading my ARC! *excited*

publicado por Shanra às 3:37 am (EST) em Nov 29, 2009

*sigh* Apparently it ate the last bit of my comment. Actually, I think I know why. Slightly annoying. *cleans up/fixes what she suspects the problem is and tries again* Long live c/p-before-you-post!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ym8pZhOP... ≶- 'The Blessing' which is my current musical obsession.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO7brr5gP... ≶- Same group, but I'm actually linking this for the solo around the 2:45 mark. (I will shut up about the violin now. I promise I will.)

publicado por Shanra às 4:45 pm (EST) em Nov 27, 2009

Oh, no! Your poor cat! I'm glad to hear things are getting better there, though!
May you find enjoyable classes. ^-^

Eh, no worries. You work with what's available and couldn't have known to begin with. Not angry or anything like that. Annoyed a bit at MySpace for being MySpace, though, if that counts. ^-~

Heh. I've always ranged from baroque to rock to folk. Never been a fan of rap, though. Or the growly type of metal. Death metal, I think the term is?

Said it was a live performance - certainly wasn't very professional camera work. Violins are such beautiful instruments when they're played by capable hands... Ah, but we were talking about favourites, I think. I tend to go on a song-by-song basis, rather than bands, and a lot of my music is soundtrack music. Mmm... I'll just give you a few names from my collection at random: Apocalyptica, whom I think you know, Lúnasa, Capercaillie, Peatbog Faeries, Decemberists, Tchaikovsky (always, always been in love with the Swan Lake score), Howard Shore, Nobuo Uematsu (famous from the Final Fantasy scores, though the ones I have are actually collaboration efforts)... Should last you a fair while. ^-~

There's something to be said for leaving a book alone for a while. I'm looking forward to revisiting some books, though. This year, I plan to reread The Dark Is Rising (all of the series, not the book the series is named for) around/on Midwinter. Should be a fun read. ^-^ That said, I definitely understand the feeling and try to keep my rereading to books I must reread for some reason other than 'I want to'.

It's... not really a sequel-sequel. More a bridge between the book and another which, as far as I'm aware, only exists in internet talk at the moment. Been a while since I heard anything of it. (Or, indeed, looked for information on it.) I'm glad to hear that the book started to pick up for you in the end at least and hope that you'll enjoy the other books more! ^-^

Thanksgiving is a purely American thing, but thank you for the sentiment. ^-^ I hope you've had a wonderful time!

Some music links because I can. ^-~

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ym8pZhOP...

publicado por Shanra às 4:43 pm (EST) em Nov 27, 2009

*waves* 'eyo! All is lovely here. I hope the same can be said for you! Although I suppose 'decent' is good too. ^-~ Ugh, maths... I feel your pain. If you do decide to take a maths course, I wish you a lot of luck with it! I'd be shuddering at the thought myself. D'you know what other courses you'll be taking yet or is it still up in the air?

Ach, she has no other site than a myspace one? *googles* Ooh, there we go. YouTube videos. ^-^ (Myspace and I don't get along. At all.) Pity the instruments overpower the voice in the clips, though. Do you have an idea why your music preference has been changing? They can be fascinating things to think abou -- *gets distracted by severely off-key sounding violin* You know, I love the instrument, but played wrong you can really understand why people, at least over here, compare it to the cry of a tomcat out courting -- Where was I? Oh, yes. Taste changes. They can be so fascinating... I'm either really steady (and narrow) or really broad with my tastes, but even then I have no set order. That's about as steady as the weather in April. ^-~

Hmm... What've I been reading? Mostly course material, I think. I've finished rereading Twilight of Avalon a few days ago only to find that I really must reread the book I want to write an essay about. Argh! Time flies! Beyond that... I'm not really sure. I recently went through my reading data list and realised that all my unreviewed November reads were 'filed' under 'October'. O_O

As for Beagle... I have to admit, I'm not terribly surprised. I've only read a few of his works. 'A few' being TLU and The Line Between, which is a short story collection and I felt like none of the stories in there had the same magic and beauty as TLU. The one that came closest - and I don't know if it's bias or not - is the 'sequel' novella included in the volume: Two Hearts. (You can probably still find it available for free on the internet if you've never heard of it before and are curious.) I was quite surprised as well. The stories aren't bad or anything like that, and I'd be happy to recommend the anthology as a whole. It's just most stories lacked the spark that TLU has.

I've got Beagle's Tamlin on my 'read soon' list now, so I'm really curious what I'll make of that one. I plan to (try and) alternate it with Dark Moon of Avalon because I really need to read that one slowly. (Watch me fail. I 'rereviewed' ToA because I was trying to read it slowly and... Yeah. Didn't really work out in the end.)

Hope life's treating you kindly! ^-^

publicado por Shanra às 6:47 am (EST) em Nov 22, 2009

Hey, nice review of Twilight of Avalon. Makes me want to jump up and go find it :)

publicado por wisewoman às 9:16 pm (EST) em Oct 15, 2009

*bemused* Just wait until I give you a wrong recommendation. ^-~ There's a few friends I keep misjudging recommendations for. I'm glad to hear you're enjoying it! It's such a gorgeous book. (And yes, the piece with Bran is heart-breaking. Poor baby.)

May you continue enjoying it! Everything is fine wih me. I hope the same can be said for you! ^-^

publicado por Shanra às 8:28 am (EST) em Oct 11, 2009

Ah, it's not going to be so much each week. Next week is some poetry and... something. Haven't seen what yet, but probably not more than around 100 pages.

I really liked Howl's Moving Castle! It was my introduction to DWJ's works. It made me realise, really, how much I missed out on as a child. O_O We don't/didn't get that level of quality in our children's books. And of course I'm hoping you'll enjoy Twilight of Avalon. It's such a gorgeous thing! Enjoy your reading! ^-^

Me? I'm looking forward to getting to reading the sequel to Storm Glass, but I have so many books lying about waiting to be read... (And then I picked up ten books just today. O_O *hopeless*) I've actully given up waiting on Martin. I'll snatch a copy of ADwD up when I see it in MMP format, but... I'd much rather focus on the many, many other books that get published and enjoy myself. It makes the waiting go faster, if nothing else. ^-~

Have a good weekend!

publicado por Shanra às 2:04 pm (EST) em Sep 17, 2009

No worries.

Chaucer is definitely entertaining! He's also a pretty good introduction to mediaeval writing (in my experience, and I admit it's rather limited). The Canterbury Tales are a little closer to tales as we know them, from the ones I've read. (I haven't read them all - yet. But someday... Maybe.) I'm taking a course on mediaeval literature right now. It's all over the place. We've Chaucer, French romances, Dante, Germanic legends, Islandic texts. Unless it's 'just' Scandinavian and I misheard the tutor. (He speaks softly even with a microphone boost.)

My reading is... Let's just say I'm supposed to have read about 850 pages this week and... I've not read a hundred of them yet. Oops. To be fair, the whole weeks's been pretty busy and these books do not read very fast for me.

At least you have experiences with limiting your purchases? I haven't had any real practice in this for... years, really. It is hard to get back into the habit of not buying more books than you can read. :/ I will get there eventually! I just have to find a system that works for me!

Go sleeps if it's so late!

publicado por Shanra às 5:16 am (EST) em Sep 16, 2009

Hee! *gestures at recent book addition* You're venturing into the English classics now? ^-^ I hope you'll enjot Chaucer when you get to him. ^-^ I'm currently chest-deep in coursework reading, but half of it is medieaval texts (in fact, Chaucer is on our list later on).

How goes your reading on the whole? And how are you doing? ^-^ (Yes, I know, I asked last time I posted, but...)

My TBR has exploded, and with far more than my coursebooks, so I've decided to implement a bookbuying ban. We'll see how it goes. I didn't last a month last time.

Hope you're well!

publicado por Shanra às 1:26 pm (EST) em Sep 15, 2009

“With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.”
-- Oprah Winfrey

“You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t know what was in the newspapers that morning ... a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be” -- Joseph Campbell

publicado por theoldman às 8:30 am (EST) em Sep 15, 2009

Hi Joe,

I hope you got your book with it; very important to be able to mooch a book when it appears,I would have hated it if you missed out because of one point... and you are very welcome! Don't worry about still finding your way around here - no one minds, and we all had to. Lots of threads go way, way off-topic quite a lot anyway - and get hijacked purposely at times too.

Any time you need any help with the vagaries of this site (and I feel there are a few) - just ask! And I am enjoying your reviews very much BTW.

I hope things are good with you too. Thank you for the lovely note!
~Lyn

publicado por Lman às 7:36 am (EST) em Sep 13, 2009

Oooh, do! It's a gorgeous thing and the herb-lore that finds its way into the book will probably interest you too. It's very character-driven, for all that it deals with politics.

*bemused* I've just not been quite as vocal about my 'Want 'em now' wishes in some. ^-~ Both Storm Glass (Maria V. Snyder) and Libyrinth (Pearl North) got a similar reaction. Mind you, if you decide to look them up, that the Glass trilogy is similar to Hobb's Tawny Man in that it'll spoil you events of the first trilogy (Study, in this case). Coming into the Glass trilogy first I didn't find the spoilers that big a deal - there's plenty that goes completely untold and what Opal does mention are things that are relevant to her story at that particular time in the story. They're bite-sized, spread out and actually made me go out and get what I could of the first trilogy. *cover-snob in this case, and can't (easily) find the first volume in the cover she wants* But not everyone wants spoilers of any kind, and should stay far away from the Glass books until they've read the Study ones. *ramble*

I'm well, if getting utterly eaten by mosquitoes. Yourself?

publicado por Shanra às 2:54 am (EST) em Sep 5, 2009

Hah-ha-ha! I'm bit relieved now - glad it is sorted

BTW, do you know there is a thread just for that here - we list books we want to mooch so LT members get first dibs! I love this site! And BM. Except my TBR pile is now ridiculous. But, as I (and you) say, you can never have enough books and music! LOL!

Nice to have crossed paths,
~Lyn

publicado por Lman às 10:21 pm (EST) em Sep 4, 2009

Hey twilightnocturne!

I saw your post on the 'angel' thread - and wanted to help but I'm a bit confused. Can't you mooch it yourself? I saw you have the same book in your inventory - is that stopping you mooching another one? If so, take if off (for a minute) and mooch the other, then put it back, perhaps?
Anyway, I just wanted to help... but it wasn't in my country - so I couldn't. :(

On other thing - can I suggest you put your BookMooch link into 'also on' on your profile here - it makes it really easy to get to you on BM then - it is in your edit profile settings under 'also on' - unless you don't want to, of course!

So. all I can do is say 'hello' now!LOL!
HELLO!
~Lyn

publicado por Lman às 9:41 pm (EST) em Sep 4, 2009

If you want to start with one, I'd say Compendium of Herbal Magick by Paul Paul Beyerl. The Master Book of Herbalism is a very good one too, so both is the best opinion!

publicado por Tinkerbell-NL às 5:54 pm (EST) em Aug 22, 2009

Hi,

My personal preference is for his first book as I have had it for years. It's a true classic and I still refer to it much more regularly than the newer one. Having said that I would get both eventually. Advice I received a long time ago was also to get Cullpepper's Herbal and then manually annotate it with the astrological correspondences of all the plants. I would also recommend looking at books on alchemy as well as exploring different writing systems such as Futhark and Ogham.

publicado por Evaliz às 4:09 am (EST) em Aug 19, 2009

Thanks for your question! Here are all my books on herbal craft / wortcunning:

http://bit.ly/Emu82

If you're looking for good books on the lore & magickal use of herbs (mostly european) I recommend either:

* A Modern Herbal - Volume I & II
* Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs
* Compendium of Herbal Magick

The other books I have listed are regarding the making of charms and other sundry items involving worts (plants) of various types.

Enjoy!

publicado por shivian às 8:46 pm (EST) em Aug 18, 2009

Hi there! It's definitely a book geared towards younger readers, but I read it when I was around 18 and I would love to reread it now, at 22. The writing and the story are just so lovely that even though there is a YA simplicity to the book it's more than enjoyable for adults, at least in my opinion! I hope you like it!

--Anna

publicado por WoodWoman às 3:07 pm (EST) em Aug 18, 2009

*blush* Thanks! I hope all's well with you. ^-^ I'm currently rereading A Song for Arbonne for a group read (and making little headway, alas) as well as A Midsummer Night's Dream in manga-format.

I'm sorry to hear you couldn't get into Shadowmarch, though I have to admit it's not a book I've ever read. The only Williams I've read was Tailchaser's Song, which I read about six years ago, and I remember liking it quite a bit. (But then it stars cats. Can't go far wrong with cats, really.) May you be more successful if/when you try again!

*smiles* Seeing you list The King of Elfland's Daughter in your catalogue was one of the reasons I mentioned him. ^-^ If you like the style Dunsany uses, I won't hesitate to recommend you Mervyn Peake. I know I've mentioned him before, but I've doing more than passing on other people's recommendations now!

*gets out the temperature conversion sites* O_O Ye-hes, that is hot. Far, far too hot for me too. I'm Dutch, by the by. Nice and moderate except in cold, cold winters. Brr. (I'm sure they're not that bad in comparison to many places, but I'm neither of the cold nor of the heat. I like moderate. *nods*) I'm glad to hear that the meeting was nice at least. ^-^ That makes all the fatigue worthwhile, I'm sure. ^-^

It's called De dertiende nacht, which means 'The Thirteenth Night' in English. It's a YA horror book of a teenage witch who has to stop an ancient evil buried in her town from rising. The only way to vanquish it/him back when they did was cut him into pieces, so those're crawling about to reassemble. *shudders* Definitely not a book dream-prone, easily frighteed and imaginative youngsters should read late at night. I'm doing a little better with the horror things now. I've read at least one author/story that can be qualified as 'horror' now, but books is about as far as I go in that genre. (For a comparison, the movie Deep Blue Sea had me terrified. *shudder*) Are you still so paranoid of the dark or has time done some healing on the wound?

No dreams... That seems so odd to me... I have nice ones, mostly, so that's good. ^-^

publicado por Shanra às 2:52 pm (EST) em Jun 17, 2009

*waves* 'ello! ^-^ Thought I'd drop in and ask how your explorations in the fantasy genre are going. So... How are they going? ^-~

(Un)fortunately, I come bearing no recommendations - apart from, if you like Dunsany, getting some of his shorter work collections - for you. Most of my reading of late has been graphic novels. Those things are wonderful when you don't have the energy to tackle prose. Children's books work too. I kind of wish I could recommend you the YA book that gave me nightmares for two whole weeks, but it's only available in Dutch. Might be too teen-like for your tastes as well. I still plan to reread it to see whether certain parts were in the book, but... Scared. Two weeks of the same nightmare, non-stop. Not the worst I've ever had, but certainly the most persistent. D'you have nightmares often? I do hope not.

publicado por Shanra às 6:33 am (EST) em Jun 15, 2009

Joe

I put a proper thank you on my blog to all the libarrything winners who have reviewed my book. I hope you don't mind.

http://newfantasytrilogybydavidburrows.b...

David

publicado por DavidBurrows às 4:44 am (EST) em Jun 14, 2009

Thanks for the recommendations Joe! I'm always looking to add to my Fantasy reading. I seem to be stuck in a Youth / Young Adult Fantasy rut at the moment :) As soon as I come across something good I'll let you know. I would recommend just about everything in my library...although I do have a book in there now that I absolutely can't stand! So, I guess I'm lying :) I hope to have all my books logged by at least the end of next month. I haven't been on LT that long and I didn't realize how many books I actually had until I started cataloging them.
Happy Belated Birthday! Um...and if you're old then what am I? I'm going to be 30 in August - yikes!
Oh - and can I just tell you - my 13 year old sister who is totally obsessed with Twilight thought it was the coolest thing that I got a book from the Port Angeles library :) HA! Let me know how that book you mooched is once you read it - it's on my TBR list.
Later!

publicado por WilowRaven às 9:09 pm (EST) em May 15, 2009

Hey Joe, Thanks for the fast ship on that Mooch. Hope you get something fun with your point :)
Great library btw. I have almost all of your Wicca books myself - uncatalogued at the moment. I'm always looking to add to my to be read pile and it looks like you have some good fantasy books I might have to check out.
Hope you're having a good day!

publicado por WilowRaven às 8:54 am (EST) em May 15, 2009

Hey Joe, glad you're a fan of Lud-In-The-Mist. I read it when it first was published in the Ballantine Fantasy Series back in the early 70s and have re-read it a number of times since then. That series was the golden age of fantasy as far as I'm concerned and you can't do better than to try to get your hands on some of those including Lord Dunsany, Clark Ashton Smith,and of course Tolkein, Peake, Eddison and William Morris. These days I think Gaiman has definitely continued along the proper path and I do like Patricia McKillip (I'm a big fan of Miyazaki – I hope you saw Howl's Moving Castle)

Cheers, Allan

publicado por abealy às 6:31 pm (EST) em May 10, 2009