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cdaveSudden realisation: Some people born in the '90s are old enough to drink now.
I ran into an old friend I haven't seen since University on Regent Street the weekend before last.
We spent about 5 minutes catching up as we walked round to Oxford Street. Realised that we both knew a reasonable chunk of what we'd been up to since Uni via facebook and went our separate ways.
It's kind of sad really. Social networking sites mean you never completely lose touch, so you can never really serendipidously reacquaint.
Should I get the time I want to write up my thoughts on a couple of books I read recently. I usually don't get around to it, so I'm hoping that putting this here will prod me into action.
Special Topics In Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
Random Acts of Senseless Violence by Jack Womak
They're sort of related, in odd ways. Both are "written" by teenage girls about a year of their life. Both books change character as the book progresses, so you feel you're not reading the same book you started out with.
They're also very, very different. I don't know if I'd have related them to each other, if I hadn't read them (almost) one after the other,
Anyway, I enjoyed them both, and would recommend them.
I ran into an old friend I haven't seen since University on Regent Street the weekend before last.
We spent about 5 minutes catching up as we walked round to Oxford Street. Realised that we both knew a reasonable chunk of what we'd been up to since Uni via facebook and went our separate ways.
It's kind of sad really. Social networking sites mean you never completely lose touch, so you can never really serendipidously reacquaint.
Should I get the time I want to write up my thoughts on a couple of books I read recently. I usually don't get around to it, so I'm hoping that putting this here will prod me into action.
Special Topics In Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
Random Acts of Senseless Violence by Jack Womak
They're sort of related, in odd ways. Both are "written" by teenage girls about a year of their life. Both books change character as the book progresses, so you feel you're not reading the same book you started out with.
They're also very, very different. I don't know if I'd have related them to each other, if I hadn't read them (almost) one after the other,
Anyway, I enjoyed them both, and would recommend them.
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Date: 2008-12-03 05:36 pm (UTC)