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[minervasolo]

I think I might be coming down with something. What timing, eh? Just a cold and a slightly sore throat, and that might just be from over-heating at night. I have the radiator off and the window wide open, but still I get too hot. I'm a Surrey girl! I'm meant to be freezing with the heating on full and two coats on!

I seem to have an oppressive number of Christmas cards. They take up the shelf, reminding me that I have yet to even begin writing any. I'd say it was a job for tomorrow, but I have so many now. I keep forgetting we stil have seminaars this week. But I have to do it tomorrow, because people will be leaving very soon.

Forgot toothpicks for fondue. Also forgot to take the fruit out of the freezer this morning, so there will be very cold fruit. And I found a fondue recipe, found several, and I figure I can probably muddle through with the ingredients I've got, if I don't kill the chocolate, like I did last time I tried melting chocolate.

Ooh, just got reading list for next term!

Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto (Woo!)
Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton
Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
Tennyson, In Memoriam
Charlotte Bronte, Villette
Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native

I have to read Dickens, Marx, Gaskell, and Collins before reading week, i.e. before next term. As well as a bunch of background. I guess Oliver Twist over the holidays (I have to get a really specific edition with certain illustrations, which means, I'm sure, it's not going to be a cheap edition), and hopefully The Communist Manifesto. I know I find Hardy awkward and tiring to read, but at least I've read something else by him. Hopefully Charlotte Bronte will have less irritating characters than her sister did (I had no sympathy for any one of the characters in Wuthering Heights). Can't really comment on the others.

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[causticangel.livejournal.com]

Sounds like an interesting list :) Should have the Communist Manifesto somewhere, if that would help?

And for melting chocolate - you should be fine as long as you do it in a bowl over a pan of boiling water. (I've tried everything else...there is no quicker way. Bah.)

Hope you feel better soon!

[minervasolo.livejournal.com]

I did not kill the chocolate, yay ^_^ I did however finish it off for breakfast...

With the book list, I'm going to see how much all the editions they want cost first, and then see whether it's worth borrowing some. Some of them I'll probably want to read and keep, so I'll buy those for myself.

[rivulet027.livejournal.com]

I'd offer to send you my copy of the Communist Manifesto, but I've yet to read it myself. Hope you feel better soon.

[minervasolo.livejournal.com]

Again, they want a really specific edition. It bugs me when they do that, because while editors do make changes and it's useful if everyone's on the same page, they never pick the cheap editions.

^-^

[misura.livejournal.com]

I read 'The Woman In White' (after seeing and immensely enjoying the movie, if you can call being frozen on the edge of my seat for at least half an hour and feeling pretty disturbed/scared 'enjoying, that is) and I enjoyed it quite a lot. It's got a pretty suspenseful plot. Of course, that was my opinion three or four years ago but ... what I remember was very good.

Re: ^-^

[minervasolo.livejournal.com]

Cool! And the fact there's a movie could be useful too... ^_^

[elynrae.livejournal.com]

My reading list is:

Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton
Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
George Gissing, The Odd Women
and a massive anthology of Victorian poetry.

But she didn't care which editions we got, as long as it wasn't the really cheap Penguin classics.

[minervasolo.livejournal.com]

Damn, now I want Jekyll and Hyde! Interesting that the pre-reading week (assuming you're doing them in the same order as us) books are the same.