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Tietoja minusta Here are my two blogs, which you should read and comment on, because I know your horrible secret...
* Fear And Loathing In New York - My personal blog where I ramble wisely about life, writing, movies, TV, and whatever shiny things catch my attention.
Current Post: Actors who sing: The good, the bad, the WTF.

* The Fangirl Review - My newest blog, where I review movies, TV shows, books, comics, trailers, commercials, and whatever other pop culture that passes me by.
June Reviews: The Happening, The Man In The Iron Mask, & The Other Boleyn Girl.

Favorite TV Shows
* House, MD
* Doctor Who
* Dexter
* Heroes
* Firefly
* Red Dwarf
* Angel
* Blackadder
* Jeeves & Wooster

Last Watched
* Down In The Valley

Last Seen In Theaters
* Hellboy II: The Golden Army (and it RULED.)

Tietoja kirjastostani Currently Reading
* On Writing - Stephen King

Books Read In 2008 - 54
* Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee
* The Stand - Stephen King (reread)
* The Year Of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion
* The Boys #9 - Garth Ennis
* The Boys #8 - Garth Ennis
* Pyramids - Terry Pratchett
* Wyrd Sisters - Terry Pratchett
* The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
* When You Are Engulfed In Flames - David Sedaris
* Snuff - Chuck Palahniuk
* The Thirteenth Tale- Diane Setterfield
* The Book Of Lost Things - John Connolly
* A Dirty Job - Christopher Moore
* Needful Things - Stephen King
* Invincible Iron Man #2 - Matt Fraction
* The Cat With The Really Big Head & One Other Story That Isn't As Good - Roman Dirge
* American Splendor: Our Movie Year - Harvey Pekar
* Sourcery - Terry Pratchett
* A Short History Of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
* Mort - Terry Pratchett
* The 19th Wife - David Ebershoff (ARC)
* Waiting For Godot - Samuel Beckett
* The Marriage Of Heaven & Hell - William Blake
* SPX 2003 Anthology - Comic Book Legal Defense Fund
* No Country For Old Men - Cormac McCarthy
* Peace In Every Bite: A Vegan Cookbook - Two Moons (Review)
* Neuromancer - William Gibson
* Watchmen - Alan Moore (reread)
* Four Past Midnight - Stephen King
* Iron Man Volume 1: Extremis - Warren Ellis
* Invincible Iron Man #1 - Matt Fraction
* Sweet And Low - Rich Cohen
* Iron Man: Demon In A Bottle - David Michelinie
* An Arsonist's Guide To Writer's Homes In New England - Brock Clarke
* Flowers For Algernon - Daniel Keyes
* The Schwa Was Here - Neal Shusterman
* The Yiddish Policeman's Union - Michael Chabon
* The Sandman, Volume 4: Season Of Mists - Neil Gaiman
* Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
* Hellblazer: Fear & Loathing - Garth Ennis
* Equal Rites - Terry Pratchett
* The Sandman, Volume 2: The Doll's House - Neil Gaiman
* The Sandman, Volume 3: Dream Country - Neil Gaiman
* Vegan Express - Nava Atlas (Book Review)
* Jonathan Strange And Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke
* The Light Fantastic - Terry Pratchett
* Reaper Man - Terry Pratchett
* Night Watch - Terry Pratchett
* Stardust - Neil Gaiman
* Coraline - Neil Gaiman
* Heart-Shaped Box - Joe Hill
* Fragile Things: Short Fictions And Wonders - Neil Gaiman
* The Road - Cormac McCarthy
* Gentlemen Of The Road - Michael Chabon

One last thing - if there's no rating next to a book, I haven't read it yet. Because I'm a bad person.

I read everything. Seriously, everything.

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RekisteröitymispäiväJun 2, 2007

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I don't know how up to date your "currently reading" list is (mine is woefully backdated), but bravo for Swann's Way. This summer I am plowing through the whole In Search of Lost Time oevre, and I am now in the Budding Grove. Read On!

Lähettänyt: Arctic-Stranger 3:27 pm (EST) Jun 2, 2008

I have a cool Alan Moore Story. I'm 46, so I read Watchmen when it first came out as individual issues. EXHILERATING! Anyway, I made myself a KICKASS Rorschach Costume for Halloween. I sewed myself a tight white full head mask and drew an inkblot pattern on it, then cut tiny slits within the pattern so that I could actually see. Wearing eyeblack underneath, you couldn't see the slits. Anyway, I was complete, down to having stuff in my coat pocket like a subway map and sugar cubes (made the wrappings myself, LOL!) and the old blood stain on the trenchcoat).

I met my sister over my Mom's house and put the costume on. The doorbell rang, it was already pretty late, so the trick-or-treaters were teens. I opened the door as Rorschach ...to stunned silence! These kids were SCARED, seriously scared, took a step back and went "WHOA." They were REAL hesitant to approach until my sister came out with the candy!

That following summer, I forget the year, probably 1986 or 1987, WATCHMEN was collected in Trade Paperback by DC Comics, but Warner Books had not yet issued their trade. My sister was working as an Admin. Asst. for Warner Books, and Alan Moore stopped by to discuss the Warner Trade with her Boss (I'm just guessing at the reason, actually).

While waiting for her boss, my sister struck up a friendly conversation with Moore. No, really! LOL! She had NO IDEA who he was, but when he explained to her about Watchmen she said "Oh! I know that. My brother dressed up as the Inkblot Guy for Halloween!"

Instead of being annoyed, he got very excited! He was negotiating with Warner to do a Watchmen Movie even at this time (BOY did I go nuts over THAT tidbit!) but he was afraid it would look silly as live action. He asked if I came across as scary, and she told him about how I scared the shit out of the teenage trick-or-treaters by just standing there.

He was THRILLED! This validated for him that a live action Watchmen was in fact doable.

My sister came home from work and said to me "You'll never guess who I met at work today." As you can imagine, I went apeshit, LOL! I was mortified that she called Rorschach "Inkblot Guy" to Alan Moore's face, but BOY was I thrilled that my costume made an impact on him.

I wish I still had a picture of it, I did a damned good job on it, but my book of Halloween Pics is lost to history in a backpack that got left behind during a traumatic night when I was dealing with a near-death experience... a story for another time!

Lähettänyt: mrgrooism 10:18 pm (EST) May 27, 2008

Have you seen this yet? Too cool for words!!! My excitement continues to build, too much!

http://www.aint-it-cool-news.com/node/36...

Lähettänyt: mrgrooism 8:25 pm (EST) May 27, 2008

I liked your comment in the non-fiction group, "I still have that childhood desire to know everything about everything". When I was young I read Kipling's JustSo Stories. In the Elephant's Child the little elephant was always getting in trouble for his "'satiable curtiosity". It sounds like you and I were both bitten by that same bug. On my Palm Pilot I have the Britannica Concise Encyclopedia. I also use the internet version of the Britannica. I am always looking up things just to know the answer. I guess it is childlike but I don't mind.

Lähettänyt: wildbill 10:26 am (EST) May 27, 2008

How was "An Arsonist's Guide To Writer's Homes In New England"? I've been meaning to read it but just haven't mustered up the energy.

Lähettänyt: caseyjames 10:49 am (EST) May 14, 2008

Hey!
Thanks for being my friend I hope I will get to know me more!

~chelle~

Lähettänyt: chellebelle 3:34 pm (EST) May 13, 2008

How was the trip?

Lähettänyt: Irisheyz77 1:02 pm (EST) Mar 18, 2008

I know it's a trifle belated, but I too hated "Memories of a Geisha", found it tedious in the extreme - I've had more enjoyment reading the phone book whilst listening to white noise through headphones.

Lähettänyt: bubblingoverbooks 5:36 pm (EST) Mar 4, 2008

Just wanted to pop in and wish you a wonderful journey for your upcoming trip to Europe. =)

Lähettänyt: Irisheyz77 11:31 am (EST) Mar 3, 2008

You know, you have seriously good taste in TV-shows...:)

Lähettänyt: Humla 5:17 am (EST) Feb 27, 2008

I am posting this in reference to your post on the Crabby thread.

The easiest way to I can see to show the time line problem would be to make the end of chapter 1 seemless with the beginning of chapter 3, you know like having 1 & 3 be one long chapter split with chapter 2. While at the same time make sure that chapter 2 refers to the death 'Yesterday'.

Many people reading these kind of stories expect a little play with the time so using the above trick to give clues.

have you read 'Beyond the Shroud'? it's a wraith book by White Wolf and might give you other ideas.

Lähettänyt: readafew 12:10 pm (EST) Feb 13, 2008

saw on your blog that you were looking for people to review your stories. There is a girl on MySpace (http://www.myspace.com/book_of_the_momen...). Her whole page is about reviewing books. Perhaps if you contact her she'll review your short stories.

Lähettänyt: Irisheyz77 7:45 pm (EST) Feb 11, 2008

You can check/change the address you gave us here: http://www.librarything.com/er/signup

But the publishers already have the addresses, so if it's wrong, it'll be sent to the wrong place... Change it for the future, at least though!

Abby

Lähettänyt: ablachly 1:57 pm (EST) Feb 6, 2008

Oh my! Is it possible to read DEATHLY HALLOWS and NOT cry like a wee babe?! Nay, 'tis impossible, I say. Any fav standout moments for you in any of the books? I did my reread this past June, leading up to HP7. They are SO very very good, aren't they?!
Hope you had a great holiday!
:) misslilpaw

Lähettänyt: misslilpaw 9:43 pm (EST) Dec 28, 2007

Just popping in to wish you and your family a very Happy Holiday. =)

Lähettänyt: Irisheyz77 11:33 am (EST) Dec 25, 2007

Hello!
How is The Late Hector Kipling coming along? I too, am a fellow bookseller (amongst the many other hats one wears in an indie bookstore.) Very curious as to your thoughts on Kipling. And Deathly Hallows if you're done with that too...promise not to give anything away if you are not yet finished!
Best,
lp

Lähettänyt: misslilpaw 11:36 pm (EST) Dec 15, 2007

Oooh...a teaser...like a movie preview but without picture or sound...yet still gets my interest peaked.

Glad to know that the cockroaches haven't gotten you. Hope things calm down a little for you there soon so that you have time to breath.

Lähettänyt: Irisheyz77 6:03 pm (EST) Nov 14, 2007

Hi, I noticed that you're currently reading Food: A Culinary History. I'd be quite interested to know what you think when you've finished, as I've recently ventured into the food writing genre and am finding that I really enjoy it.

Oh, and I added you to my interesting libraries list!

Lähettänyt: grkmwk 12:24 pm (EST) Nov 14, 2007

Great to meet you! Thanks for accepting my friendship. I'm looking forward to checking out your library and I hope you enjoy mine.

Lähettänyt: lisaunger 10:36 am (EST) Nov 14, 2007

Thanks for your friendship! I look forward to checking out your books and hope you enjoy mine.

Lähettänyt: lisaunger 10:35 am (EST) Nov 14, 2007

RE: my last comment

In case you couldn't tell I am horribly bored at work and looking for some funny to get me through the next 3 long and boring days.

Lähettänyt: Irisheyz77 8:45 am (EST) Nov 14, 2007

Just stopping by to see if you are still alive...no blog updates in awhile so I've been wondering if the cockroaches have attacked and are holding you hostage...or...um...something. You've probably just gone out and gotten a life and I should probably follow your lead. But it is hard since now I am addicted to said blog and just sit and incessantly hit the refresh button hoping that something new will appear.

Ok. So not really incessantly. However, I do pop over there every so often and feel a rush of disappointment (hmm...wonders if that's still laying it on too thick but is trying to stimulate a response...perhaps get a blog post starring me: weird blog stalker girl. lol) anywho...as I was saying before I interrupted me....I feel a rush of disappointment when there is nothing new.

If the cockroaches have attacked then send up a flair or something and I am sure some kind, concerned New Yorker will come to you aid post haste!

Signed,
weird blog stalker girl who you've gotten addicted to your ramblings of life in new york, cockroaches, and the pending zombie apocalypse.

;-)

Lähettänyt: Irisheyz77 8:43 am (EST) Nov 14, 2007

That is WAY too funny! I hope your boss understood the refrence.

Lähettänyt: derfla3101980 4:09 pm (EST) Nov 5, 2007

so how did the job interview go? hear anything back yet?

Lähettänyt: Irisheyz77 9:38 am (EST) Nov 5, 2007

Hey there, ellevee.

I added you to my "interesting" list recently (I see you just added me back) and wanted to pop round and say thank you. :) *looks around* What interesting tastes we share in library materials! Oh, and it is -always- a pleasure to find someone who is as delightfully sardonic as i am on a blog! (yes i read it, it's not changing my life yet, but it might.)

I've seen you around in some groups we have in common. Just read your post from the GD about fifth of november. V. Did you do anything anarchically disturbing to the general masses/cockroaches/bookstore customers? I really must find me one of those guy fawkes masks, then i could have wrecked more havoc in traffic today and Really made those soccer moms nervous. *small smile* Ah well, my driving must do for that i'm afraid. Come to think of it, I'm sure it does. *chuckle*

Anyways enough random rambling, spattering glittery gibberish to mark your page. It is lovely to meet you, ellevee. Yours is a page I will visit often, if only to wonder/wander about aimlessly at your library.

Much bliss (even if it comes in a small cockroach-killing package).
~PandorasRequiem

Lähettänyt: PandorasRequiem 3:58 am (EST) Nov 5, 2007

I Fu(ken love Transmetropolitan!! I find myself quoting Spider from time to time, especially “Two tugs from a dead dogs cock”

Lähettänyt: derfla3101980 2:47 pm (EST) Nov 4, 2007

From the imortal words of the Golden Girls, thank you for being a friend. I also enjoy your blogs a great deal please keep it up. From reading them i just have to tell you one thing that might give you some courage about you cockroach fear. According to Encylopedia Brown cockroaches are afraid of humans, in fact if one were to touch a human they run off to clean themselves off as quickly as possible. So Kill those little fu(kers with pride!

Lähettänyt: derfla3101980 7:51 pm (EST) Oct 12, 2007

Congrats on the apt. May the job also be forth comming. =)

Lähettänyt: Irisheyz77 9:31 pm (EST) Aug 20, 2007

Job and Apartment hunting at the same time? I so don't envy you there. Both are horrible miserable tasks that can often leave you curled up in a ball at the end of the day trying to shield yourself from the pain of rejection and the horrors of the search.

Lähettänyt: Irisheyz77 8:55 am (EST) Aug 16, 2007

I confess, it was me. I did not mean to imply that you are really, really boring. Let me explain. After taking care of my four children between 15 and 17 months, schlepping said children around town, reading the incredibly brilliant (NOT) essays of 120-140 sophomore students, trying to enlighten and educate said students, and tending to the usual tasks of such a humdrum suburban life, I occasionally get to read your blog. I always get a laugh. And I get to live vicariously the life I might have had. I hope you won't hold my really, really boring life against me. Feel free to send me hate mail.

Lähettänyt: emaestra 12:50 pm (EST) Aug 14, 2007

I finished it...and you were right. That was a ridiculous ending. Oi. I am glad to be done with that book. Bookmooch here I come...for this book needs to be gone from house.

Lähettänyt: Irisheyz77 11:22 am (EST) Aug 12, 2007

I'll struggle through it then...but as you say this is a tough one to get through.

Lähettänyt: Irisheyz77 9:25 pm (EST) Aug 11, 2007

Im on page 170 of The Guardians and was wondering...is it worthwhile to finish the last 40? I'm having real trouble getting into this book.

Lähettänyt: Irisheyz77 9:19 pm (EST) Aug 10, 2007

If your baby eating roommate is involved I'll think I'll rethink legal action.

*shudders*

Lähettänyt: Irisheyz77 9:05 pm (EST) Aug 8, 2007

You also demand on your profile that people go read your blog as well. With the all important disclaimer that 'it will change your life'.

So I went.

And while my life was not changed...(contempltes: can I sue for false advertising??)...so while my life wasn't changed I was highly amused. This amusement has led me to look back often.

Lähettänyt: Irisheyz77 3:35 pm (EST) Aug 8, 2007

So I can no longer check in on your blog at work. It makes me laugh too hard and I get odd stares from those near me in cubicle city.

Ok...so I get odd stares anyway, I'm used to them. But its work. And work is boring. So when I laugh they know that I am not working. And for some reason bosses don't like it when their peons aren't working. Though for the life of me I can't understand why.

lol

Lähettänyt: Irisheyz77 11:10 am (EST) Aug 8, 2007

Hey there... I live in NYC, too (Forest Hills, Queens, actually... work in Manhattan) ... and any time I'm having a bad day, I also go to Strand -- either the main store or the Annex (I love the Annex in summer especially) ... good luck with your apartment situation :-)

Lähettänyt: tls1215 1:57 pm (EST) Aug 6, 2007

Saw that you like Zombies...ever wonder how you'd do in a Zombie Apocalypse?

http://mingle2.com/zombie-quiz

Lähettänyt: Irisheyz77 4:12 pm (EST) Jul 26, 2007

hi - have Crooked Little Vein on my Amazon list now, thanks to you. : ) Ditto the Phineas novels. If you liked those, I think you might like this one; http://www.librarything.com/work/136771

cheers.

Lähettänyt: Bookmarque 3:18 pm (EST) Jul 26, 2007

Just read your review of Wicked and have to say, I couldn't agree with you more! Seems this is a real love it or hate it book.

Lähettänyt: lindsacl 9:09 pm (EST) Jul 14, 2007

Okay then, count me in. :-)

I didn’t see “League” mostly because I suspected it would be horrid! It sounds as though I was right.

And I was indeed curious about your user name, and now I know.

Cheers.

--“I'm not questioning your powers of observation, I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is.”

Lähettänyt: dodger 4:50 am (EST) Jul 10, 2007

General? Yeah, sure, okay--but I feel it is only fair to warn you, I have never been *any* good at taking orders! Ever! Seriously! I’ve been kicked out of classrooms, made to sit in corners, fired from jobs, and excoriated by teachers, employers, and family members for not doing what I was “supposed” to do. Once, I even bit my preschool teacher because I didn’t want to do what she told me. So, you’re now warned. ;-)

Anywho, I see that we share the same ardor for V for Vendetta, too. What a great book and movie! I know that Moore was less than enthused about the movie adaptation, and the Americanization of some of the plot, but I’m very glad it got made.

Well take care, oh, and STOP SMOKING! Just because Thompson did, doesn’t mean you have to. ;-)

Lähettänyt: dodger 2:10 am (EST) Jul 8, 2007

Hi there. Since you’re a fellow Thompson fan, and since we seem to hang out at a lot of the same places on LT, I thought I’d say hello personally.

Lähettänyt: dodger 4:04 pm (EST) Jul 5, 2007

Funny thing: I have a t-shirt that reads, "Can't Sleep Clowns Will Eat Me!"
I bought it years ago. It reminded me of Pennywise the clown from "IT". I am not terrified of them, I just hate them with a passion.

And I just assumed when there were no stars that it did mean a person had not read that particular novel yet. Either that or it was complete shit but then why would a person even admit to owning it. I'll stick with the first part.

And lastly: lucky you and congrats for your intership. I write. I write like a fiend. We all should write. Everyday

Ok.

Goodbye

Lähettänyt: DoranPayne 10:11 pm (EST) Jun 21, 2007

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