Juice, Doctor Who, music, and Daytripper (random blog)

I have too many weird ideas and not enough to say about any of them, so this will be a random blog about whatever I feel like writing.

First: freshly extracted juice. I have recently bought a juicer. I have been juicing apples, carrots, ginger, lemons and kiwis - mostly all of them together (choosing between lemon and kiwi). It is really delicious and easy, and I like it very much. In addition it's healthy, and I get my five a day really easily.

First week of term apparently means getting a cold, so I've had a lot of chilling out to do - which means watching films or Doctor Who. I have now watched all the ordinary episodes of the new series of Doctor Who and all the christmas specials, but not the other specials...the ones between series four and five.  I really like the series, I feel invested in it, and I love the characters. I am now eagerly looking forward to the next series, number 7, which premiers next weekend, I think. I don't think it is coming to Norwegian television...but I'll find a way to see it anyway.

Julia Nunes' wonderful debut album

This summer I have discovered some new music, specifically Julia Nunes' debut album, Hellogoodbye's album 'Would It Kill You?', and Ludovico Einaudi's album 'Islands'. Of course I have also listened to Ed Sheeran (a lot) and Taylor Swift. I am looking forward to two musical releases this autumn - 'Privateering' by Mark Knopfler and 'Red' by Taylor Swift. I love the two songs that have been released from Knopfler's album, 'Redbud Tree' and 'Privateering'. You can listen to them here (on the player on the right), but they are not singles, so you have to wait until the album is released to get them.

I have just finished Daytripper by Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá. It is a wonderful, deep and really beautiful graphic novel. Highly recommended.

My next post will most likely be a humourous piece aimed at biologists. I say this so that you have some warning, and I hope you won't be very confused.

PS: I have changed the adress to my blog - it is now juliemynors.blogspot.com. Just so you know.

Summer haul

The summer holiday is soon over, and any holiday is book buying time (especially when in England, since the books are cheaper there). This time, I think that maybe I bought a bit too many books (the plan was one). But I love buying books! So here they are, the books and DVDs (as well as some old second-hand comic magasines) I have bought this summer.

Wow...that is a lot of stuff (full list below). No more books before Christmas! Except the already preordered ones and schoolbooks, of course... And preferably no more DVDs either, excepting new releases, like the Hunger Games, of course.

And how many of these books have I read? Only three: Dawn of the Bunny Suicides, Fahrenheit 451 (for the nerdfighter book club), and Wonderstruck. I LOVED Wonderstruck, it was fantastic. Just wonderful and beautiful. If you haven't read it yet, read it, and soon (it doesn't take long to read, since half the pages are drawings)!

This summer, I have also been listening to Harry Potter audio books, read by Stephen Fry. He is a very good audio book reader (is that what you call it?), and I am enjoying it. As I have scrolled through the chapters on my iPod, I am starting to appreciate J.K. Rowling's skill in naming chapters. Usually, when I read, I don't really read the chapter title (sorry, writers). So being aware of the chapter title is a new experience. I am also, as I listen to the audio book, picking up little rhymes and alliteration that I don't catch when I'm reading. This adds even more fun to the reading experience for me.

I hope to be blogging more often this autumn (than this summer - it won't take much), but I can't guarantee anything, since I am not going to force myself to write (unless you readers (if you are out there) demand it).

I love lists, so here is a list of all the stuff in the picture:

Book on top:

    Dawn of the Bunny Suicides - Andy Riley

Standing, from left to right:

  DVDs:

    Night at the Museum

    Slumdog Millionaire

    Pixar Short Film Collection volume 1

    Wall-e

    Tangled

    Stardust

    Love actually

    Emma

    Hugo

    Footloose

    Finding Nemo

  Books:

    Miles, Mutants and Microbes - Lois McMaster Bujold

    Masterharper of Pern - Anne McCaffrey

    Acorna - Anne McCaffrey and Margaret Ball

    Acorna's Quest - Anne McCaffrey and Margaret Ball

    Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

    Let it Snow - John Green, Maureen Johnson, and Lauren Myracle

    I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith

    The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde

    The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern

    The Second Book of General Ignorance - John Lloyd and John Mitchinson

    Doctor Who: Dead of Winter - James Goss

    Ohrid - Tor Obrestad (poems)

    Wonderstruck - Brian Selznick

    On Dragonwings - Anne McCaffrey

    Daytripper - Fábio Moon

Lying on the floor:

    One Calvin and Hobbes magasine, and nine old Donald Duck magasines, all in Norwegian. I don't know if there even exists Donald Duck comic magasines outside Scandinavia...you are definitely missing out.