Some things that are making me smile

[altogetherisi]

~ This feeling of absolute happiness, serenity, completeness, satisfaction that comes from finishing a (really rather good) book. I can get it from other things too sometimes, but really, it's book feeling. It's perfection. The book I just read is "Dreaming of Amelia" by Jaclyn Moriarty, which is the last in the series of "Feeling Sorry for Celia", "Finding Cassie Crazy" and "Being Bindy Mackenzie". Finding Cassie Crazy is one of my favourite things ever in the world ever ever ever. And this one was pretty damn awesome, though at points it made me rage, and feel sick, and feel heartbroken, as well as thoroughly delight and amuse me.

~ Radio 1's Longest Show Ever With Chris Moyles and Comedy Dave For Comic Relief lasted 52 hours - they started at 6.30am on Wednesday, and didn't stop, didn't sleep, kept broadcasting straight through until 10.30am today, Friday - was amazing, funny, entertaining, compulsive, and raised over £2.4 million pounds for Comic Relief. Today is Red Nose Day, so telethon tonight!

~ That it seems like spring is here. I don't have to wear my coat and scarf everywhere all the time. The tree in our front garden, which spends most of the year kinda purple, is covered in beautiful white blossom. There are daffodils on the lawn.

~ The excellency of the latest episode of Glee, which I expect I will write a separate post on, but first I want to rewatch it because it was really rather awesome and I watched the first time in between blow drying my hair and having breakfast and doing makeup before going into the office on Wednesday because I was not willing to wait until I got home. And I'm glad I didn't, because it put me in such a good mood for the rest of the day.

 

~ Also, thinking about the very interesting shipping potential in Skins, which is really coming into its own now, as this current series ends. Oh gen 3, you are so much better than gen 2. I love you, Skins. 

 

~ Making plans. For Easter time, and also, now, I am going to a festival for a weekend in July in France which will be totally fun! 

 

~ Awesome fic. I saw this on crack_van and I just have to add to it's praise and pass it on, because it's really, really, REALLY good fic. It's The Strange Disappearance of Sally-Anne Perks by Paimpont, and it's very well written Harry Potter gen that takes the name of a character that is sorted in Philosopher's Stone just after Harry and then never heard of again in the series and spins it into a brilliant, beautiful, canon compliant and complimentary story. Seriously, GO READ IT. 

 

~ And finally, I don't watch Supernatural and don't care much about Misha Collins, but I was browsing Fandom Wank and heard about this rhino puzzle scavenger hunt thing, and I laughed so hard my dad kept asking me what was so funny and THERE WERE NO WORDS that could explain the insanity and bizarreness of Misha trolling his fandom with such careless hilarity.
 

How is everyone?

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[elixer-of-life.livejournal.com]

Mini's ep was extremely good. I felt such a mix of emotions when it finished. I really, really want to watch it! Alas, I'm really bad at catching up with TV shows.

The other book is I Have A Bed Made Of Buttermilk Pancakes (phew! I had to google that, lol. I knew it had something to do with pancakes...). I think I read it too soon after Spell Book because I found it a bit...not boring, but like I'd read it before. Which I sort of had. But I'd recommend it because it's definitely written from an adult perspective. Also, I think some of the names and events are a bit different.

I definitely love the friendship of those three. I've noticed that sometimes it's rare to see more than two people in a friendship group. There are obvious exceptions, but quite often you get the best friends scenario and it's the two of them against the world, and it's all so much more interesting when there's more people. Obviously, as I typed that I thought of a billion books with friendship groups, not just pairs, but whatever. My point is that those three are an excellent example of why more than two in a friendship can be awesome. And I love that they're all very different girls and the reason why they're friends is because they are. They love each other and they're friends and that's sometimes the best kind of friendship.

I now really want to re-read the series.