4 posts tagged “halloween”
Love this time of year! I will, however, be hiding with all the lights off tonight, hoping we don't get any trick-or-treaters. It's VERY rare at our house - we live on a busy street with no sidewalks, and our door also has no doorbell. That usually confuses the little monsters. It's MY candy! MINE!!
Also, a huge GOOD LUCK to those of you out there who are tackling NaNoWriMo beginning midnight tonight! Whether it's your first time or your 8th, may your words flow freely and may your characters continually surprise you!
A white-eyed version of Neil Gaiman's Death from The Sandman... heee! It was fun...
But of course, I'd like to.
A timely book to cross my desk on several levels - the first and most obvious, HALLOWEEN, and our love of monsters at this time of year. Secondly, because I'm re-reading The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi, and the modified Special Forces troops in the story read Mary Shelly's Frankenstein to better understand themselves and the way humanity reacts to them.
Anyway, if I had the time I'd totally be delving into this book; even if it was just so I'd have even more fodder against a young friend of mine's assertion that Shelly's Frankenstein "Sucks." CJ my young friend, you just didn't get it.
And in one of those lovely moments of symmetry, I also have this gem sitting on my desk... wouldn't it be the greatest fun ever to read it alongside the one above? This one concerns Mary Shelly herself, along with other writers and poets in her social circle (including Byron and Wollstonecraft and of course Percy Bysshe Shelly too...) I was vastly interested in these people when I learned about them in my high school 18th Century literature class, but haven't had a chance to "revisit" them since. Ah well; it goes on my list of wishfuls.
(A quick sidenote: Amazon has the subtitle reading "The Death of Fanny Wollstonecraft" when the actual subtitle of the book is "Fanny Wollstonecraft and the Shelley Circle". Much more interesting, the second one.)
Happy Halloween everyone!
We technically already did our Halloween celebrating at Todd's party on Saturday night (clickie for piccies) but I'm still feelin' the ghouly-gibbery love. I'm wearing my Old Navy orange shirt with the witch's hat, and a cool fuzzy black jacket, and my stripey black/white/orange cat socks.
We very rarely get kids at our house trick-or-treating, since we live on a fairly busy road with no sidewalk. The neighbor kids sometimes come to our back door though, so if they do we DO have a bit of candy we can give them. Maybe I'll hoist some leftover candy corn on them; I bought like 5 lbs. of it recently and I'm getting sick of it.
This IS my favorite holiday. I love dressing up, I love the cooler weather, I love that it's a pagan holiday that hasn't been twisted and changed by the xtians and (pretty much) everyone still celebrates it. And I love that it's the eve of my wedding anniversary (3 years this year!)
