Four things

[larryhammer]

1. I do not spend too much time with wordsofonebeat. I don't, I don't. I can stop when I want to -- now, in fact. Truth. I mean it.
   
   
2. The house-name discount grocery-store milk chocolate in Switzerland costs CHFr .45 -- about US$ .33. It's better than the US$ 1.50 stuff available in the states. I actually liked it, and I'm a hardcore dark chocolate fan. (That said, the Lindt bar with 85% cocoa was a Bit Much -- dial it back to 75%, and we've got a perfect chocolate bar.)
   
   
3. You know you're in trouble when one bad novel mocks a fictional romance with the same premise as another book on your TBR pile. You're also in trouble when, thirty pages into a Regency romance, you're bored and disgusted with everyone involved. (Note to pbray: None of these is the current reading.)
   
   
4. What do you think are the chances of getting a reading_clarissa community that's as enthusiastic as reading_genji?

---L.

Comments

[paulakate.livejournal.com]

I keep wanting a metatopic where we can dicuss the joys and frustrations of word of one beat.

[larryhammer]

Hee.

I keep wanting to comment on Jo Walton's comment on the value of translating things into words of one beat for appreciating how good the original is, with a meditation on how it's a good exercise for training one's ear for poetry. But I haven't had the energy to write it up in good words.

---L.

[janni.livejournal.com]

Called something like monosyllabicmeta? Only I'm sure that's too many words.

[larryhammer]

One letter too many for LJ.

---L.