Nice short week with the stat holidays, etc. I had now read volume one of The Absolute Sandman and have started in on volume two. I compared the art in Doll's House to the original trade paperback and the difference was astounding. I think the difference will become less marked as I go though, since it was only the really early stuff that was really ropey but still. Lovely lovely big leather bound books full of prettiness and wonderful stories.
I have just this morning finished a notebook. I have filled this notebook with the first part of my new novel and I appear to be writing this one chronologically as the lead character talks in my head. So easy, so good. I am beginning to think of my first novel in quite scathing 'first novel' terms though, so it will be good to catch up with C tomorrow and hear what she has to say about it.
At the boxing day sales I got four more DVDs Black Snake Moan, Rent*, The Protector (for Lee) and Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang. I got the boxed set of all the Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants books for $40 and the new book in the Michelle Paver Torak series, called Outcast.
I also picked up the Little Golden Book called The Sailor Dog because it is pure nostalgia to look at the pictures and read the words. Love it to bits.
I also bought myself a couple of summer dresses at the big Ezibuy sale and a $5 tshirt that shall be altered. I got the board shorts I wanted and a pair of Shelley's ballet flats that I have been coveting all year.
Christmas and Boxing Day are so much consumer-driven fun!
Now it is another stunningly sunny day and I want to go out in it. But I shall continue writing. Or I shall type up what I have written already and then I can give you a word count.
PoF: pjs again. I love my pjs.
CO: weekending
*I did have Rent previously, but I somehow lost the disc. I bought the new copy for $7.50.
Posted by jenni at December 29, 2007 10:13 AM