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perlmonger ([personal profile] perlmonger) wrote2004-04-13 07:37 pm

booklist

Prompted by [livejournal.com profile] peake, here's my current top ten novel list, in a not particularly significant order.

Michael Moorcock - Mother London
Ursula K LeGuin - Always Coming Home
Zenna Henderson - Ingathering (the complete People stories)
Jay Gilbert - Boy Peace
Rhoda Lerman - The Book of the Night
R A Lafferty - Fourth Mansions
Umberto Eco - Foucault's Pendulum
Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children
Kurt Vonnegut - Mother Night
Patricia A McKillip - The Sorceress and the Cygnet
Samuel R Delany - Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand

OK, it's eleven. I could come up with more if you want...

[identity profile] spride.livejournal.com 2004-04-14 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
Lovely!

[identity profile] easterbunny.livejournal.com 2004-04-16 09:06 am (UTC)(link)
That's an amazing picture. The bird is so crisp and sharp.
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[identity profile] perlmonger.livejournal.com 2004-04-16 11:12 am (UTC)(link)
thanks :)

"sharp", I think, is the operative word here...

The photo itself was a case of focusing on where the bird would be, and luck with the timing; I'm actually amazed that I got the eagle in frame at all, let alone that it worked so well.

[identity profile] easterbunny.livejournal.com 2004-04-16 02:31 pm (UTC)(link)
As much as I love dragging my digital camera around (and subjecting everyone here to my pictures), the thing I really miss is being able to make the camera go click the exact second I want it to. While I can bully my friends into freezing in a one legged pose on top of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon for two and a half minutes, the cats have generally stopped doing the entertaining thing with the fish and are lounging in another room by the time the flash goes off.