lunababymoonchild

I have now read The Rime of the Ancient Marriner. It was marvellous and I'll be reading it again.

past him to get away when ……….

I Don't Want to Talk About It - Rod Stewart

fair put the kaibosh on every little thing. As a result I ……….

Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now — Starship

Feel Like Making Love - Bad Company

soaked to the skin by drivers who thought that it was really funny to drive through the puddles and create arcs of water that hit me with force. Just as well I had me thigh waders on or I'd have drowned. Clearly, since they were all enjoying themselves too much to stop, I decided to ………

Just bought this!

Silence is Golden - The Tremeloes

that if I didn't come up with the twenty nicker (whatever that is!) PDQ (is that something one puts in a text message?) he would have to come over and give me a full scale mollicating - and I knew full well what that was. Since he was clearly upset and very threatening, and I certainly didn't want a mollicating, full scale or otherwise, I decided to .............

I'm still reading The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep so won't get to the Coleridge for a while. ETA I've just bought The Devil and the Dark Water, I had no idea there was another book by Stuart Turton!

Just bought The Rime of the Ancient Marriner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge as my poem for the sea. It's 66 pages long so I'll take my time and I'm sure that there will be others.

“Not in the slightest” I replied “clearly I've been misinformed, my apologies for any offence caused. Now, as to the jars, that would be the most economically priced that you have, please” Mr Slimline looked confused, perplexed and puzzled. Stroking his stubbled chin (I could hear the scraping sound that made clearly) as he looked at me he ………….

Old Time Rock and Roll - Bob Seger

Yes, and good idea about the poetry (which can be included, I imagine, in pretty much every category)

If A Picture Paints A Thousand Words, Then Why Can't I Paint You? - Bread

reproduced, as is their wont. As a result, new jars were needed PDQ so ………..

watch Coronation Street so decided to sashay in my new perfectly fitting and glamorous thigh waders and matching brolly (high end cotoure as everyone can see) in the pouring rain for as long as possible so that the general public could admire my fashion sense (not to mention my exquisite sashaying), when ...........

Cruella De Vil comes to mind but she's more a cartoon than anything else. The Wicked Witch of the West, from Wizard of Oz is also somewhat cartoonish/fantasy. There is Lady Macbeth from Shakespeare's Macbeth. My favourite would be The Snow Queen from Hans Christian Andersen - she stole a child how villainish is that?

a ceiling fan so therefore I must be going. Thanks very much for all your help, I'll see you later. I then skedaddled out of there just as fast as my legs would carry me and ended up ..............

I'm going to continue from here just because I can see the connection. When Doves Cry - Prince

I'll have a look for the film, it sounds interesting.

I suggest a book of/about Poetry. That always makes me think of summer and I know that I just don't read enough poetry.

Ooooooh. I'm saying nothing 😉 I have quite a bit to go on Uriah Heep and I probably won't finish that by the end of the month, but you never know.

This was named The Karamazov Brothers on my copy (Wordsworth Classics) as opposed to the more usual The Brothers Karamazov and I've gone for the one-y-spelling of Dostoevsky because that too was on the book. This was absolutely epic! Eight hundred and seventy pages of goodness. I struggled a lot with this and only managed 16 to 20 pages at a time (50 pages is my usual rate) and it took me a month and two days. The story of the Karamazov Brothers, of which there are three (and a possible fourth), and their father. Nineteenth Century wordy (think every eye-brow raise and every intake of breath) and formal prose - compared to today's fare - and was absolutely magnificent. I moved from e-book to paper and back again for a fortnight through this due to personal circumstances which I won't bore you with and that movement proved to be very interesting indeed. I was lucky that I had chosen the same translator, Constance Garnett, so that kept it consistent. I did check online notes for a while and the most useful part of that was the names of the characters and explaining, somewhat, why some of them had three, or in some cases more, different names which did prove to be confusing especially at the beginning. I chose the full unabridged version (both e-book and paper) and knew that it was long. I thoroughly enjoyed it and would highly recommend it.