hibernating, and memories
Dec. 28th, 2004 19:26![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
piranhai've hit full hibernation mode (it got cold enough). i get up, like any self-respecting digirati bear, to read my flist. i drink some hot cocoa, and then i crawl back under the covers to read, per chance to sleep.
the most exciting thing that happened has been my belated discovery that abebooks now includes german and dutch booksellers. which got me to trying to find and recover the names of authors and titles i once loved, but have since forgotten. and i was successful! i actually managed to find the newzealand author who wrote entertaining, witty books about life of a sheep farm (mary scott). and that was just the start of walking down memory lane. so now i am sitting on a huge order of books in german, trying to pare it down to a number that will not bankrupt us, *grin*. it'll be good for me to read a lot of german, since that language has been rather languishing in my life, and i'm losing fluency, which would be a waste. but i should also be careful, because nostalgia might be colouring my delight at finding some of the old treasures, and re-reading them might not be a good idea. many books i read at 8-12 are unlikely to have stood the test of time.
oh! and while i was browsing on amazon for lists, i found that the augsburger puppenkiste has a bunch of their old plays on DVD now! *drool*. Jim Knopf und Lukas, der Lokomotivführer, Urmel aus dem Eis, und Kater Mikesch!
the most exciting thing that happened has been my belated discovery that abebooks now includes german and dutch booksellers. which got me to trying to find and recover the names of authors and titles i once loved, but have since forgotten. and i was successful! i actually managed to find the newzealand author who wrote entertaining, witty books about life of a sheep farm (mary scott). and that was just the start of walking down memory lane. so now i am sitting on a huge order of books in german, trying to pare it down to a number that will not bankrupt us, *grin*. it'll be good for me to read a lot of german, since that language has been rather languishing in my life, and i'm losing fluency, which would be a waste. but i should also be careful, because nostalgia might be colouring my delight at finding some of the old treasures, and re-reading them might not be a good idea. many books i read at 8-12 are unlikely to have stood the test of time.
oh! and while i was browsing on amazon for lists, i found that the augsburger puppenkiste has a bunch of their old plays on DVD now! *drool*. Jim Knopf und Lukas, der Lokomotivführer, Urmel aus dem Eis, und Kater Mikesch!