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9 years ago @ My Friend Amy - Random Sunday Chatting! · 0 replies · +1 points

I really like your analysis of the qualifiers and how maybe there is just so much now that it feels even more difficult to jump back in when it comes to blogging.

11 years ago @ My Friend Amy - HI EVERYONE · 0 replies · +1 points

Hello Amy :-) I feel completely disconnected (which is all my fault), and I cannot seem to find a way to get back to blogging. Reading and books just have not been my top priority lately, but I also hte giving up on Iris on Books because it gave me such joy for years.

Anyway, I also notice that there is lots of talk about comics when I am online. Like you, I haven't found a way to make them more accesible to me.

11 years ago @ My Friend Amy - War and Peace Mini Ser... · 0 replies · +1 points

I'm sure we won't have access to it over here at the same time as you will, otherwise I'd vote to co-watch. And yes, I am definitely fussy on the details already, sometimes I feel as if I might just as well not have read the book...

11 years ago @ My Friend Amy - Happy 2015! · 0 replies · +1 points

Happy new year, Amy! I love the idea of a quarterly book club with your sister. Will you be sharing which books you plan to read so we might join in if we feel like it?

I was thinking of our War and Peace readalong the past few days.. Your not accidentally thinking of reading another long book this year, are you? I might want a challenge... (though with my track record the past year I'm not sure I'm a reliable person to make plans with anymore :/)

11 years ago @ http://greenmushroom1u... - My Year in NonFiction · 1 reply · +1 points

I can relate so much to your comment about wanting to read to disconnect when you get back from scientific work. Although somehow, when I do read nonfiction (or fiction) it somehow often still relates to my research (but perhaps that is more easily the case when its history instead of labwork). Perhaps I should challenge myself to actually read something in a different field of science someday?

12 years ago @ My Friend Amy - We Were Liars by E. Lo... · 0 replies · +1 points

On the list of "books I should buy sometime this year" it goes. And yes re: mailing with Ana about a book (or other stuff).

12 years ago @ My Friend Amy - Hi Everyone!! · 1 reply · +1 points

I did not manage to watch the ladies figure skating, but given your anger I am curious if you watched the men's? I only caught (I think) the latter half of it, but was quite surprised to see some of the scores there too, as was the Dutch commenter though he did not voice it as such. There were so many skaters who fell during their skating, and then some of the deductions seemed a little weird if you compared the falls from one skater to the other? Anyway, I have very little knowledge about figure skating, but it just stood out to me before I accepted that I probably know nothing so I had best not worry about it.

12 years ago @ My Friend Amy - Skating, Adaptations, ... · 0 replies · +1 points

I would join in with film club if I am able to find movies in time, etc. :-)

And please remember that separate drafts turned into one post works absolutely fine! Wiritng is hard, but it is always lovely to hear from you <3

12 years ago @ My Friend Amy - War & Peace Check In: ... · 0 replies · +1 points

I copied your questions and answered them in a post that will go up tomorrow. I am so sorry for not doing so sooner. And thanks for the questions! That definitely helped writing about finishing the book. I don't think I would have been able to make sense of my blur of thoughts without them.

12 years ago @ My Friend Amy - War & Peace, 1956 in P... · 1 reply · +1 points

Well, I am glad you watched it so I don't have to anymore :P
In a way it makes sense to introduce Pierre as a well-known friend to Natasha because it makes the love story work better, perhaps? I am still not sure if the book convinced me that Pierre should be with Natasha, so in a movie that followed the book that might be even more difficult to convey (even if it was 6 hours!) That is - going with the idea that most movies will choose a love story as the central plot because it is somehow expected? I don't know..

Hah, about Pierre being too old! I somehow always imagined him as older while reading the book and had to keep reminding myself that he was actually the young person from the beginning :)

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