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I've bought all of my Christmas presents and all but one of my Twelfth Night presents. I mailed all the presents this morning. My Advent Calendar is finally up. (I didn't find one of the new Playmobil ones until last weekend. At least it was on sale by that point.) I still need to put up the rest of the decorations (and get a tree), and finish the scrolls I'm working on in time for Twelfth Night, and read a friend's new book in time to give comments, and finish putting all the food back on the shelves now that the tenting is over. Sigh.

At least I was able to get dressed all by myself at aikido last night.

Current book: THE BLACK STALLION

Re: Off topic - Need some advice.

Date: 2003-12-16 12:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] janni.livejournal.com
Heh--I just finally read Call of the Wild and Julie of the Wolves for the first times, myself. (Liked the former, not so sure about the latter.)

'Tis the season for animal books.

Date: 2003-12-16 03:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] maestrateresa.livejournal.com
Yeah..."Julie of the Wolves" was an odd one....I read it as an immpressionable youngster, and am *still* not sure weather I liked it or not. Maybe I should find it and re-read it.

Date: 2003-12-16 06:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] janni.livejournal.com
Oops--ignore the odd topic header I forgot to delete. :-)

I was fine (if a little bored) with Julie until the last half-page: when suddenly the whole book shifted to a sort of hopelessness. "The hour of the wolf and the eskimo are over," she thinks, and heads back to the village, and that's it.

Which is somehow even more troubling that her leaving that village (a different one from the one she started in) in the first place, for all that I thought that was done based on a bit of incomplete understanding on her part, too.

Date: 2003-12-17 10:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] klwilliams.livejournal.com
I've never read Julie of the Wolves, but I noticed Island of the Blue Dolphins on the rack when I picked up The Black Stallion, and I may need to read it again.

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