Can you wear yellow?

[bethnoir]

I reading this book at the moment,
it's one of those "throw you in at the deep end" ones with a very alien world, hundreds of new creatures, places and concepts to comprehend. I'm enjoying it, but it's quite hard work. Do you love it when words you've never seen written down before appear regularly? The last time this happened for me was Umberto Eco I think, had to keep a notebook.
Might have to pick up something more relaxing today for when I'm tired.

Had a cool dream last night. I was at school/university in an English lesson. The female teacher was jumping from subject to subject, asking questions and then not letting anyone answer and basically not providing a very coherent lesson, which was annoying me. Suddenly she said she was going to show us a film which cheered me up.

It was projected onto a big white screen at the back of the room, it was Siouxsie Sioux and Budgie singing a song I'd never heard before, in a refectory somewhere. Siouxsie was wearing a lemon coloured minidress with a peach cardigan draped around her shoulders and Budgie was looking super cute. They were both really young, teenagers I think. There was some screaming at the end, kind of punky, but that's all I remember. In the dream, I was singing along, entranced by the song and decided that the teacher wasn't so bad after all.



Wonder if it exists? Siouxsie can even look good in yellow velvet, what a woman.

Comments

Re: book covers, I lied

[wolfy-codex.livejournal.com]

*gasps* How can I ever trusts you again?! Erm, in fairness though it sounds that it was still the book you wanted rather than the cover.

Hm, is the book a swishy first edition or somesuch? Does it perhaps contain Lucifer's hidden code to unlock the Ninth Gate?! Hee, well I'm sure you'd be no more likely to damage it that you might any other book from the library. Perhaps you should take it with you to the beach and have an ice cream? :)

Ah, well I have a kindle but as yet I haven't really found any great use for it. Mostly this is because it only works through a wireless connection and my home interweb is very much wired. I do prefer the physical book myself too though the electronic reading device does have potential for the creation of new media experiences, integrated stories with video and such but for the simple reading of a story there is no greater device than the book. :)

kindle

[bethnoir.livejournal.com]

oh, I thought you could download stuff and read it anywhere, but if it's dark you need a light, so not quite anywhere. I'm not really tempted, except when I run out of books I want to read or when they're out of print, but seem to cost about £1.50 on Amazon.

Re: kindle

[wolfy-codex.livejournal.com]

Well the kindle isn't backlit like a mobile phone might be so indeed you can't read it in the dark. The rationale seemingly being partly to reduce screen glare since many kindle readers read outdoors and also to increase the length of time between charging. Apparently you can get little lights that attach to it though that isn't really any different to reading a book with a nightlight. Still, I can't say I've really found much use for mine but then I has plenty of real books yet to read. Also the wireless only thing isn't really convenient for me, although you can get models that work through 3G as well, but mine is just the basic flavour.