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<li><p><em>The Thin Man Goes Home</em>, 1945. Nick without a drink to hand? It's
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<li><p><em>Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix</em>, by J.K. Rowling.</p></li>
<li><p><em>Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince</em>, by J.K. Rowling.</p></li>
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<p>Well, I reread all the previous <em>Harry Potter</em> books, and I'm pleased
to say they stand up well the second time around. I enjoyed the new
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<li><p><em>Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire</em>, by J.K. Rowling.</p></li>
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<li><p><em>Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets</em>, by J.K. Rowling,
copyright 1999; Scholastic Books (trade paperback edition), September
2000.</p></li>
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<li><p><em>Lyonesse: Suldrun's Garden</em>, by Jack Vance, copyright 1983; Berkley
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<li><p><em>Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone</em>, by J.K. Rowling; text
copyright 1997, J.K. Rowling; illustrations copyright 1998 by
Scholastic, Inc; Scholastic, Inc, September 1999. I'm rereading the
<em>Harry Potter</em> starting from the beginning in preparation for the
sixth book.</p></li>
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<li><p><em>Shadow of the Thin Man</em>, 1941.</p></li>
<li><p><em>Zatoichi Challenged</em>, 1967.</p></li>
<li><p><em>The Blind Swordsman's Cane Sword</em>, 1967.</p></li>
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<p>I'm not actually sure when I finished either of these, so I just
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<li><p><em>Tolkien: A Look Behind The Lord of the Rings</em>, by Lin Carter;
Ballantine Books, first printing March, 1969. I think most of Carter's
analysis has been superseded by later studies, but he had a few
interesting things. I found his summary of the history of early
fantasy interesting, in particular the chapters entitled <em>Fantasy in
the Classical Epic</em>, <em>Fantasy in the Chanson de Geste</em>, and <em>Fantasy
in the Medieval Romance</em>, and <em>The Men Who Invented Fantasy</em>. The
chapter <em>Postscript: After Tolkien</em> also discussed a couple of books
that I very much enjoyed during my childhood and of which I'd
forgotten the author, Carol Kendall, and titles, <em>The Gamage Cup</em>
(1959) and <em>The Whisper of Glocken</em> (1965), so I was overjoyed to find
that.</p></li>
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<li><p><a class="reference external" href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0143012/">Zatoichi no uta ga kikoeru</a>, also known as <em>The Blind
Swordsman's Vengance</em>, 1966. Directed by Tokuzo Tanaka, story by Kan
Shimozawa, and scenario by Hajime Takaiwa. A little more introspective
than is usual for Zatoichi. Good.</p></li>
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<li><p><em>The Glory That Was</em>, by L. Sprague De Camp; introduction by Robert
A. Heinlein; copyright 1952 by Better Publications, Inc.; copyright
1960 by L. Sprague de Camp; A Baen Book, Baen Publishing Enterprises,
first Bean printing, April 1992. In the past I've had a habit of buying
books that I know I'll want to read at some time in the future and
then not reading them for years. This book is a case in point. I
expect I've had this book since 1993 or there-abouts, and I've finally
found myself in the mood to read it. I'm definitely glad I picked it
up. It's a light and intertaining science fantasy..</p></li>
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<p>It turns out that <a class="reference external" href="http://www.haskell.org/ghc/">ghc</a> 6.4 takes more
VM to build than 6.2 did; the 256 <a class="reference external" href="http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html">MiBs</a> of memory and 256
MiBs of swap on my FreeBSD server were not enough. I added another GiB
of swap and it compiled ok, if slowly.</p>
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<li><p><a class="reference external" href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087544/">Kaze no tani no Naushika</a>
(1984), aka <em>Nausicaa of the Valley of the Winds</em>, 1984. Directed
and written by Hayao Miyazaki.</p></li>
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<p>Watched this with Lily <em>and</em> Eva, at Lily's request. They both
enjoyed it. I enjoyed it even on this second viewing in a
week-and-a-half and third viewing in a month.</p>
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