Three weeks to the wedding. We have an appointment today with the wedding coordinator at the restaurant and another on Tuesday with the florist. I feel like the florist is going to be overpriced. I’m not looking forward to that. I’ve been spending my time in these last weeks not worrying about the wedding with as [...]
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Chrestomanci is like Gatsby! Minus the tragedy…
It has FINALLY occurred to me who the character of Chrestomanci in Diana Wynne Jones’ Charmed Life reminds me of, both physically — the dapper outfits, the mysterious descriptions of his past and mysterious power — and I swear, it’s Gatsby. As in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. The similarities between them (polar-opposite genres [...]
posted by erin on November 21, 2008
http://blog.efdanehy.com/2008/chrestomanci-is-like-gatsby-minus-the-tragedy
NaNoWriMo, Day 14
My NaNo novel is an unwieldy beast. And by that I mean it’s going well but its plot can easily go in four directions and I’m conflicted but only really conflicted because I am sort of getting to the point of procrastination. I KNOW, it’s day 14, I can’t afford that. But even so. I’m [...]
posted by erin on November 14, 2008
http://blog.efdanehy.com/2008/nanowrimo-day-14
House of Many Ways by Diana Wynne Jones
Last night I finished House of Many Ways, Diana Wynne Jones’s most recent book and the third book set in the world of Howl’s Moving Castle after Castle in the Air. I read both Howl’s and Castle in college, and I am a huge fan of the Miyazaki film adaptation of Howl’s Moving Castle, despite [...]
posted by erin on October 28, 2008
http://blog.efdanehy.com/2008/house-of-many-ways
