The Secret of Life
I think I’ve discovered the secret of life – you just hang around until you get used to it.
Charles M. Schulz
Recipe for living…
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
Carl Jung.
Marry, Date or Dump: Sherlock Holmes
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In this case, I’d marry Watson, date Holmes and dump Moriarty.
The new Doctor
So… For the first time I found out almost immediately about who the new doctor will be. In the past, I’ve just stumbled across the news online at some point after the announcement. Unfortunately, I’m really disappointed. I don’t care about the actor’s age or colour, as long as it is a man (I’d love to see a female Time Lord – perhaps The Doctor’s Daughter – but not the actual Doctor). Somehow though, this man doesn’t look like the Doctor at all. Not to me. Sigh.
To be fair though, I wasn’t all that keen on Clara when she first showed up and now I really like her. In fact, I didn’t like Donna either, in The Runaway Bride. I really didn’t see what the big deal was, but after a while, Donna became my favorite companion (well, her and Rory). So who knows? Maybe Peter Capaldi will surprise me, but right now I’m not feeling very happy about one of my favorite tv series.
10 Reasons Real Books Are Better Than E-books
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To some extent I agree with most of these reasons. Not all, though, and I also enjoy e-books, even though if I was forced to choose, I’d have to pick printed books. However, I have always had trouble reading any book in bright sunlight and I’m not awfully keen on old books – library books or second hand ones. Other than that I can only agree – books are awesome.
Write about what you care about…
“The golden rule of writing is to write what you care about. If you care about your topic, you’ll do your best writing, and then you stand the best chance of really touching a reader in some way.”
– Jerry Spinelli
Books and libraries…
“It’s a quiet sort of heroism, the making and keeping of books. You don’t get medals for sitting in the library each day, scratching away, writing it all down. Still less for dusting the shelves. But it is what civilisation is made of: the collective memory, passed on, passed down.”
The Morville Hours, Katherine Swift
Writing quote
“If you tell me, it’s an essay. If you show me, it’s a story.”
– Barbara Greene
Quote by Jane Austen
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
~ Jane Austen
