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Every day should be a day off.
May. 11th, 2004 06:24 pm
I took the day off yesterday and didn't check email ALL DAY. :D:D:D Of course, it would have been nicer if it hadn't been so miserably rainy, but whatever. I went to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
corianderstem's work place, where we met Marian Keyes, who is really cute and funny. After having met her, I can appreciate her books in a way I wasn't able to before; knowing that she's a recovering alcoholic and that she's suffered many of the troubling things that her characters have gone through goes a long way in making me feel "more okay" (don't know how else to put it) about the humorous way she writes about those subjects. Now I know there's a lot of self deprecation in it, and I always appreciate people who have a good sense of humor about themselves. (Plus because I know she's doing well now.)
I made an entire post to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
literocracy about it, so I'll just be lazy and link. As promised, I had her sign my copy of Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married to literocracy. :D An excerpt:
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You're a British writer -- do they change text to Americanize things?
MK: Yes, they did that a lot, actually, for my older novels. But not the new one so much. I think after Bridget Jones' Diary and the movie, people are now more aware of what our slang is. You know what 'snogging' and 'shagging' and 'knickers' are, so there's less reason to 'translate' them. But sometimes there's really no help for it, and it's important that the reader understand what is meant.
I refrained from saying that I mostly knew what all those things were from reading Harry Potter smut on the Internet.
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I have posted answers to the blink lyrics meme. Here's another one, mostly forjade_okelani, but also for anyone else who might be a Melissa Etheridge fan. I know maybe three songs by her, so this is a total crapshoot! ( the lyrics meme, starring Melissa Etheridge )
Meanwhile, I have heard much talk on my friends list about some apparent TV adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time ... I don't remember it very well now, but I do know that I was nutzoid about it back in the day, and devoured such related novels as A Wind in the Door, Many Waters, and A Swiftly Tilting Planet. I think it was the first (and the only, for many many many years) sci-fi thing I ever liked. Anyway, am sad to have missed it, though now I feel like reading the books again.
corianderstem's work place, where we met Marian Keyes, who is really cute and funny. After having met her, I can appreciate her books in a way I wasn't able to before; knowing that she's a recovering alcoholic and that she's suffered many of the troubling things that her characters have gone through goes a long way in making me feel "more okay" (don't know how else to put it) about the humorous way she writes about those subjects. Now I know there's a lot of self deprecation in it, and I always appreciate people who have a good sense of humor about themselves. (Plus because I know she's doing well now.)I made an entire post to
literocracy about it, so I'll just be lazy and link. As promised, I had her sign my copy of Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married to literocracy. :D An excerpt:***
You're a British writer -- do they change text to Americanize things?
MK: Yes, they did that a lot, actually, for my older novels. But not the new one so much. I think after Bridget Jones' Diary and the movie, people are now more aware of what our slang is. You know what 'snogging' and 'shagging' and 'knickers' are, so there's less reason to 'translate' them. But sometimes there's really no help for it, and it's important that the reader understand what is meant.
I refrained from saying that I mostly knew what all those things were from reading Harry Potter smut on the Internet.
***
I have posted answers to the blink lyrics meme. Here's another one, mostly for
jade_okelani, but also for anyone else who might be a Melissa Etheridge fan. I know maybe three songs by her, so this is a total crapshoot! ( the lyrics meme, starring Melissa Etheridge )Meanwhile, I have heard much talk on my friends list about some apparent TV adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time ... I don't remember it very well now, but I do know that I was nutzoid about it back in the day, and devoured such related novels as A Wind in the Door, Many Waters, and A Swiftly Tilting Planet. I think it was the first (and the only, for many many many years) sci-fi thing I ever liked. Anyway, am sad to have missed it, though now I feel like reading the books again.
