A little slideshow: OSG’s camera’s missing, last we heard, but she’s doing ok with the phone.
Jane has pix of OSG's kittehs…
by CJ | Nov 9, 2011 | Journal | 11 comments
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That’s Jane Fancher’s blog <----- link over there and down some, for those of you new to the site!
And you’ll notice my avatar has shifted. I had a little bit of a meltdown today and decided it’s because I just was reminded of her too often, as in, whenever I’d do anything. So here’s Seishi, thanks to Jane fixing the image for me. I’ll be better now.
Ummmmm……I’m still seeing Ysabel. 🙁
@ smartcat — Try refreshing your browser. Her avatar changed after that. If that doesn’t do it, try emptying your browser’s cache and history. Seishi should then show, calm, inquisitive, and courteous.
Thanks BCS, that fixed it. 🙂 😀 😆
OSG&Guy’s kittens are very cute. Seishi looks good, too: perhaps a little uncertain still, but he has a very sweet face.
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Completely off topic: I’ve been wanting to thank you-all for the good recommendations of mystery and detective-stories a while ago. Thanks, CJ, for posting those queries, and thanks for the people who recommended so many fun new books to try.
I’ve enjoyed several authors I’d never heard of before, enough to try to find a lot of their unavailable books secondhand through the Internet. Now both my parents are quite enthousiastically devouring all the ‘Bony’ detectives by Arthur Upfield I bought, as well!
Many thanks to the people who recommended him, and Alisa Craig/Charlotte MacLeod as well. I’m just starting the ‘Richard Jury’ series by Martha Grimes, and it’s looking good too.
In this, I find the Internet to be really wonderful, that now I can buy all these out-of-print English-language books, which I’d most likely never have been able to find in any second-hand-bookstore in this country. A whole world of reading enjoyment has been opened up, and though Amazon is behaving like a big bad monster company in other respects, it has made this possible for me as a reader. I’ll keep on buying any in-print new books through my local bookstore, as I wish to keep them in business; and I’ll never buy Amazon’s DRMd e-books; but for the out-of-print and otherwise un-buyable paper books Amazon has been a revelation. But the bulk is too great: without the recommendations from people here in the ‘Wavy Navy’ who’s reading taste I trust I’d never have managed to find so many new authors and books I like.
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Finally, yesterday I found an Internet-retailer who sells region-free Anime DVD’s, so at last I’ll be able to try some of the recommendations CJ and MrGawe made in august 2009 – I’ve kept the print-out of the list handy ever since, just waiting ’till I’d find access – and now the Internet obliges. The shop hasn’t got everything that looked interesting on your list, but I’m starting with some Miyazaki, some Kyo Kara Maoh, and Mushi-Shi.
CJ, I remember Bleach was your favourite, but I think someone said to begin with the first two seasons: that’s one season per box of 40 episodes? Does the story-arc come to a satisfying conclusion after these two seasons, or will I be stuck with needing to buy it all to come to an acceptable resolution?
Did we recommend Ngaio Marsh to you? I hope so.
She’s not on my shelf yet. Doesn’t she write a bit more thriller-like and bloody? I tend to prefer the milder puzzle-detectives, and dislike too graphic violence.
I’ve still got a shelf of unknown mysteries to read: I’ve found 1-3 (often secondhand) books by all the authors who sounded as if I might like them, and I’m about one-third through them. Some were OK but not nice enough to search out all their other books; and already there are three authors that have become new favourites, sending me to comb the bookstore and the internet for their other books. Only one has been sent back into the secondhand-circuit: everybody here gives very good and clear recommendations!
The 3 Miyazaki films arrived today, the anime series not yet. If I like the first season of Kyo Kara Maoh, I’ll go on to Bleach after that (understanding that Bleach is a bit more grown-up than Kyo). Is there a point later in the series where I should pick it up again, after it’s done wandering, or should I just stick with it all the way, if it turns out I like it?
It does come to a good conclusion, then wanders for a while, and currently has a good arc going.
All kittens are cute. It’s a Law of the Universe.
Seishi is sure a sweet boy…..looks huggable. 😉