Maboroshi's birthday...
Jan. 3rd, 2004 08:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fajrdrakoYesterday we celebrated maboroshi's birthday by going to "Flippers", a restaurant in the Glebe. The food was stupendous - and not far off my diet, on the whole - I was particularly swooning over the smoked mackerel that maboroshi had as appetizer. The waitress was unusually friendly and almost as impressed with the book of Hollywood photographs that I gave mab, as she was.
Afterwards: Future Shop, where I spent my Christmas gift certificate on the DVD of "Pirates of the Caribbean". Happy about that. Then Chapters, where I couldn't find Sheamus Heaney's translation of "Beowulf" even though it was supposed to be on the shelf. (The sales staff wasn't much help.) Ah well.
I haven't seen "The Rough Guide to Middle-earth" in any of the local stores - I bought it at the convention in Toronto, and am enjoying it mightily. The pickings for Tolkien books are very slim, really. It makes me wish I had access to an American or British bookstore. I do, of course - and if I don't find Beowulf at the Kanata Chapters today, I'll order it from amazon.ca or amazon.com.
I'm also looking for a good book about Malta.
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Date: 2004-01-03 11:15 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-01-05 12:28 am (UTC)Tell me what you're looking for. You do have access to an American bookstore -- the huge Barnes & Noble I pass every day on my way to work! Ask, and I shall seek.
(They have tons of Tolkien books. Three different atlases, I think.)
I'm also looking for a good book about Malta.
Ask, and I shall seek. Malta intrigues me, also. Perhaps I shall get a second copy for myself :-]
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Date: 2004-01-05 05:34 pm (UTC)Well, in truth, it's probably just as well I didn't find what I was looking for, since I can't afford it. It's an edition of maps of Middle-earth, not the ones recently illustrated by John Howe and Alan Lee (though that too is lovely) but the ones put out by a gaming company that look nicely authentic. When I save up some book-buying money again, I'm going to get that!
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Date: 2004-01-05 02:15 pm (UTC)http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0887291775/qid=1073340592/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_0_3/026-9466258-3912451
Or alternatively the 1992 edition:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/9624211248/qid=1073340592/sr=1-5/ref=sr_1_0_5/026-9466258-3912451
It's a good mix of background, history and sightseeing info - better as a read-before book than an on-site guidebook. But it may be difficult to find...
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Date: 2004-01-05 05:26 pm (UTC)I really like the Insight Guides - I was able to get one on Korea for a friend of mine who moved there on Christmas day. Unfortunately that bookstore doesn't have the edition for Malta - I check every couple of weeks.
Amazon.ca says it has 'limited availability'. Amazon.com and amazon.co.uk both have it, and I can't tell which would be more expensive. I may get one of them. Amazon.com also has The Rough Guide to Malta and Gozo, and if it's as good as The Rough Guide to The Lord of the Rings it would be well worth getting. Decisions, decisions. I will probably get one, read it, then get the next one.... When I have stopped spending all my money on repeat viewings of The Return of the King>/i> (assuming that ever happens).
Meanwhile I am reading the "lonely planet" book on Malta from the library and enjoying it mightily. What a beautiful place! But I already knew it would be. After all, I saw Simon's photos when I was in Dublin, and fell in love with them.