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August 16th, 2008

sqbr: pretty purple pi (I like pi!)
Saturday, August 16th, 2008 02:27 pm
It was supposed to be 20 shuffled songs but that's just too many. Also I skipped a few of the less amusing ones.

So, my playlist (in my pants):
-Finlay Quaye: Sunday shining in my pants
-The Cruel Sea- The honeymoon is over in my pants
-The Whitlams - buy now pay later in my pants
-Tracy Chapman - Baby can I hold you in my pants?
-Cruel Sea : Anybody but you in my pants
-Soundgarden: Blow up the outside world in my pants
-Pearl Jam: Nothing as it seems in my pants
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sqbr: me in a graduation outfit. Trust me, I'm a doctor (of maths) (doctor!)
Saturday, August 16th, 2008 02:49 pm
(From [livejournal.com profile] little_details)

Question: My character has suffered repeated blood loss from vampire bites. What non-supernatural diagnosis will doctors give for his symptoms?
Answer: Occult bloodloss
sqbr: A happy dragon on a pile of books (bookdragon)
Saturday, August 16th, 2008 06:56 pm
I just read "Does my head look big in this" by Randa Abdel-Fattah, a cheery YA novel about a Australian-Palestinian-Muslim girl who's just decided to wear the hijab, and her general hijinks and life. I enjoyed it overall, my main problem was that it was, well, a YA book about Life Love and Self-Identity, and I'm not a big fan of that genre (especially as a not-that-young adult) but I can't blame the book for that. It got a bit anvilicious, issues-driven and preachy here and there ("Be yourself!" "There are many ways to be muslim!" etc) but that goes with the genre. It reminded me a bit of "Looking for Alibrandi", but was more cheery.

Anyway, it was set in Melbourne which (like [livejournal.com profile] melberon's recent posts) made me feel like going back to Melbourne and eating lots of gelato and pasta etc, but also made me think back to my youth and the fact that I don't remember ever reading any YA books set in Perth that I could identify with. In general, I can't think of any books (or fiction in general) set in Perth which are about normal urban life (especially from a female pov), they're all about The Sea and The Bush and The Past and Being A Man. It feels like authors think there's no point telling urban stories about anywhere east of Melbourne :/

So can you guys think of any? And, second and harder question, any you'd recommend?
I'm almost certainly missing something obvious. And no, short stories Do Not Count (well, unless you really HAVE to mention it :))

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