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It's been drizzling and cool (well, cool for middle TN in early July, which means under 85 F) all day, and I'm all muzzy and lightheaded from the weather. Or possibly I still haven't gotten used to the new glasses. I made it to the library this morning, and spent the afternoon reading the rest of Stardust. I still have visions of how that book could be turned into a movie, and it's come very close to displacing Good Omens as my favorite Gaiman book. It's currently making me want to write fantasy like crazy.

In addition to that one, I ended up getting probably more books than I will read (see my complaining about having no attention span anymore a couple days ago), but none of them are novels, so maybe I'll have more success. I was inspired by a recent discussion on [livejournal.com profile] bogland_lit to get an anthology of modern Irish poetry; it took a while to find one that was modern enough to have Eavan Boland in it. I also ended up with one of Billy Collins' anthologies, a book by this guy who traces the changes of the environment near Concord, MA from Thoreau's day to the present by building his own little Walden-esque cabin and walking around, and a book on Robin Hood legends, among a few other things. I tried hunting down some of the Lemony Snicket books, but, alas, someone had checked out the first one, and I didn't want to start in the middle.

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