eva ([info]faerycake) wrote,
@ 2009-03-05 20:58:00
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my favourite books
I used to read things (normally neoconservative things) that annoyed me a little, or came across things in daily life that pissed me off, or watched the news and felt like crying. I'm trying to channel those emotions into my research now, instead of getting angry. It seems to be working, as a side effect of my work I'm mapping out what I think a bit more in my head. Having your every last thought or opinion peer-reviewed is good in terms of pinning down inconsistencies and working through them.

As a result though, I can't really be arsed arguing and debating anything in day to day life, I dunno, I feel like I don't want my entire life to be about social and political theory. Even though it is.

By means of contrast, here are my top 5 favourite books from when I was little :)




Yay! happy colours, happy cat.



It had lots of questions like: would you rather get squashed by a rhino or eaten by a lion! Or eat breakfast in a hot air balloon or supper in a castle?



The BBC would sack her! I'm a bit ashamed at how much Enid Blyton I used to read :(



The lollipop was my favourite bit. I got a giant soft-toy hungry caterpillar for my Mum one Christmas.




This should be 'the very hungry caterpillar, but I couldn't find a copy of the UK cover, boooo :(

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[info]likeneontubing
2009-03-05 09:48 pm UTC (link)
i loved the hungry caterpillar, and enid blyton til i foudn out she was a racist cunt hehe

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[info]cr4k
2009-03-05 11:28 pm UTC (link)
I loved the hungry caterpillar too!

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[info]likeneontubing
2009-03-05 11:29 pm UTC (link)
it clearly rawks

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[info]cr4k
2009-03-05 11:31 pm UTC (link)
I really liked all the colours. The ending was also quite a shocker

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[info]faerycake
2009-03-06 08:34 am UTC (link)
I liked the food!

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[info]faerycake
2009-03-06 08:34 am UTC (link)
hehe, I know it sort of tarnishes stuff doesn't it??

The enchanted wood was the first book I read all by myself I think!

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[info]cr4k
2009-03-05 11:29 pm UTC (link)
do you have any of your work online? I might actually learn something if I read something of that nature...

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[info]faerycake
2009-03-06 08:33 am UTC (link)
In terms of online stuff, there's an article here:
http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/esharp/issues/12winter2008technologyandhumanity/

If you scroll down, there's a pdf. of it, or you could just read the abstract and see if you fancy it!

Like everything though, because I wrote it over 6 months ago, it kind of makes me feel funny reading it! Basically because I've mapped out a lot of the ideas a lot better now and it's a bit clunky to read. It's weird, every through months I consolidate stuff in my head that makes everything I've written before seem embarrassing.

If I ever write anything I think you'd find interesting I'll email it to you, it might come across better than that, hehe :)

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[info]cr4k
2009-03-06 09:50 pm UTC (link)
Nice work =) Talking about the nature of reality in the first page *thumbs up!*

However, despite the comprehensive manner in which the website could re-frame the issue at stake, the question is: to what extent could this new understanding of McDonald's be communicated to the broader public?

I think it was really good to bridge with that, because at that point I was thinking, 'yeah it's nice they compiled all that information, but people don't read.'

Don't worry about feeling like you were some kind of inarticulate moron 6 months ago, code I wrote 6 months ago quite often makes me face palm. It does kind of support an existentialist model of effective learning by doing though eh?

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[info]mrs_cinnamon
2009-03-06 08:55 am UTC (link)
Yes Lady bird and caterpillar. Plus;

- the worst witch


- what-a-mess


xx

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[info]faerycake
2009-03-06 08:56 am UTC (link)
Awww! I used to love the worst witch books! And I'd forgotten about what-a-mess, isn't he lovely?

xx

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[info]mrs_cinnamon
2009-03-06 08:59 am UTC (link)
yeah he is awesome! somone at work didn't know what I was talking about when I mentioned him so I internetted him yesterday and found cartoons on you tube which was weird cos I only had the books! American 90s spin off aparently xx

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[info]faerycake
2009-03-06 09:10 am UTC (link)
I remember the books getting read to us in nursery, I vaguely remember the cartoon but might be getting confused with another one (Barney the Dog or something, maybe?).

I'm supposed to be working... but am sitting in front of the computer with a mug of black coffee just willing myself to come up with inspiration. It just feels like I'm continuing a 7 year narrative!!

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[info]mrs_cinnamon
2009-03-06 08:57 am UTC (link)
and ta da



:D

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[info]faerycake
2009-03-06 09:08 am UTC (link)
awwww wicked!! Heh, it's weird, I was almost shocked when I saw the US one, I forgot it was 'ladybug' instead of 'ladybird'. Can you remember learning about harlequin ladybirds when we went to that museum the first time I visited you, when you lived off Park Street? I keep seeing them around now, which is scary because aren't they evil ladybirds (well, not evil, superladybirds that eat all the aphids so the others don't have food). Maybe they're the ultimate bad tempered ladybirds!

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[info]nathan_nothing
2009-03-06 11:13 am UTC (link)
Is the Enchanted Wood the one that involves the Faraway Tree? Or was that its own book? Isn't that the sequel or something? I was really into that when I was about 7!

I'm going to be in Nottingham next week so hopefully you might have time to join me for a drink at some point? Mainly going down for the death rock night Ghoul Garden at the Maze on the Saturday.

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[info]faerycake
2009-03-06 09:07 pm UTC (link)
yeah it is! think there was a sequel called 'the folk of the faraway tree' or something!

We live really near the maze! It's a friend's birthday that night, but we should be about that evening before going out for her meal.

Are you staying for any of Sunday too?

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[info]tiwla
2009-03-06 10:28 pm UTC (link)
Ladybirds are the angry drunk Glaswegians of the insect world. Sorry to say the Very Hungry Caterpillar is the only one of those books I've heard of. Clearly too old for your modern literature. Except Enid Blyton, who I never liked. Give me Paddington Bear or Pooh any day (proper Pooh, not the evil Disney (per)version).

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[info]faerycake
2009-03-07 11:06 pm UTC (link)
Heh, it's funny you say that - Robin said he used to like the (non-disneyfied) Winnie the Pooh too, and I don't think he knew many of my books.

Maybe it really is a generational thing :)

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[info]missanthropii
2009-03-09 09:48 pm UTC (link)
Eric Carle is great. Hasn't written a bad book, and I am well on my way to having a complete collection, well maybe not, but I have about 15 now. I think he's done about 50.

I don't remember winnie the witch from being a child, but I have it in my classroom now.

My other favourites from when I was a kid are:






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