Conundrums
I'd been intently searching for the perfect bookshelf for a couple of weeks now, and I have found it. It's an Ikea model. The problems, however, are threefold. First, it's 75 inches tall, and there's no way it would fit in my little car. Second, the cost to have it delivered is more than the cost of bookshelf itself. Finally, I live 128 miles from the nearest Ikea. Advice?
Speaking of conundrums, can someone tell me the correct way to pronounce Myanmar? I've seen "mean mar" suggested, as well as "mmm yan mar". I liked the name Myanmar (vs. Burma) much more back when I thought "myan" was pronounced as one syllable, exactly how it looks. Try it! It's fun. Now put it together with "-mar." MYANmar. It sounds like what a cat would name a country. If that truly were the correct pronunciation, it would make me very happy.
Why is it that some people can read the same book over and over again, but others can't stand to read the same thing twice? I've always been an "over and over" person. Not so much for books that I've really truly adored as an adult. Nearly all of the books I've read and loved deeply over the past ten years or so, I'm almost afraid to read again because I don't want to spoil them. But L.M. Montgomery, Stephen King, Madeleine L' Engle, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Beverly Cleary, Carolyn Haywood - the authors I loved in my youth - I could read their books a million times. (And yes, Stephen King belongs in that group. I read my first Stephen King book, The Eyes of the Dragon, in second grade. My dad used to read me excerpts from It and The Tommyknockers and Misery and Pet Sematary before my naps and before bed when I was even younger. Yeah, I know.) I suppose those of us who can read the same book many times are really the weird ones. I understand how you wouldn't be able to - I would feel the same if I finished a book and then immediately started over - but yet, given the proper waiting period, I totally can.
Hmm.
Speaking of conundrums, can someone tell me the correct way to pronounce Myanmar? I've seen "mean mar" suggested, as well as "mmm yan mar". I liked the name Myanmar (vs. Burma) much more back when I thought "myan" was pronounced as one syllable, exactly how it looks. Try it! It's fun. Now put it together with "-mar." MYANmar. It sounds like what a cat would name a country. If that truly were the correct pronunciation, it would make me very happy.
Why is it that some people can read the same book over and over again, but others can't stand to read the same thing twice? I've always been an "over and over" person. Not so much for books that I've really truly adored as an adult. Nearly all of the books I've read and loved deeply over the past ten years or so, I'm almost afraid to read again because I don't want to spoil them. But L.M. Montgomery, Stephen King, Madeleine L' Engle, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Beverly Cleary, Carolyn Haywood - the authors I loved in my youth - I could read their books a million times. (And yes, Stephen King belongs in that group. I read my first Stephen King book, The Eyes of the Dragon, in second grade. My dad used to read me excerpts from It and The Tommyknockers and Misery and Pet Sematary before my naps and before bed when I was even younger. Yeah, I know.) I suppose those of us who can read the same book many times are really the weird ones. I understand how you wouldn't be able to - I would feel the same if I finished a book and then immediately started over - but yet, given the proper waiting period, I totally can.
Hmm.
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posted by BeeKay at 12:09 AM
4 Comments:
If there's enough time that I've changed significantly, it's great to re-read a book. I read In Cold Blood when I was 12, and read it again about a month ago, inspired by all the Capote film hoohah. That was a nifty reading experience (and Truman Capote was one great freakin' writer).
OMG, I find it hilarious that your dad read you excerpts from the Tommyknockers, Misery and IT before your naptime when you were that little! That's awesome.
I have no solution to your problem with IKEA though.
Sorry.
Build your own shelves.
Building my own shelves is a great idea, yet I'm convinced I'm not up to the task. I can handle the following-directions-to-build stuff, but freestyle scares me. Then again, so does the cost of shipping.
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