(no subject)

[flemmings]

And now that it's the day after mother's day where half the mothers I know live, and never was mother's day at all for some even when it was yesterday, happy mother's day to my FL anyway, where applicable.

Discworld does grow on one. (This is good, because there's a lot of it, and possibly not so good because there's no guarantee it's all as good as the Watch books. The first one I ever tried wasn't.) But I started Men At Arms today in Honest Ed's coffeehouse and had to stop because I was snickering out loud (which Torontonians aren't allowed to do, even in places as déclassé as Honest Ed's coffehouse.) "Dwarfs are very attached to their gold. Any highwayman demanding 'Your money or your life' had better bring a folding chair and packed lunch and a book to read while the debate goes on.' As for 'protect the innocent comma'-- well, more people should.

Comments

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

The Murray's? Kept pretty well- pure rag content paper, thick borad binding. We gave it to the Art Gallery after Dad died, because no one has room for folio-volumed dictionaries. The big thick one didn't last: cheap paper cheaply held together. What fell apart was the suede binding of the Enc.brit: shed all over the place. (My own copy of the Enc.brit, present from an aged neighbour twenty years ago, is now doing the same with its regular leather binding. The onionskin however is perfectly happy.)

[i-am-zan.livejournal.com]

The onionskin however is perfectly happy. That is really really .. ..just wow!

I guess mine still has some ways to go then, before it falls apart as it isn't that old yet. Very very cool.