Why is it that Piccadilly always looks one thousand times better in photographs than it does in person but Big Ben looks one thousand times better in person than it does in photographs?
--Duma Key, by Stephen King 5* --Beasts, by Joyce Carol Oates 4* --Skin Privilege, by Karin Slaughter 1* (HORRIBLE writing) --Plain Truth, by Jodi Picoult --Kafka on the Shore, by Haruki Murakami --The Road, by Cormac McCarthy 5* --Oil!, by Upton Sinclair 2* (good writing, a bit long, didn't flow well) --Out Stealing Horses, by Per Patterson 4* --Stumbling on Happiness, by Daniel Gilbert 3.5*(interesting, not as good as Tipping Point or Blink or Paradox of Choice) --Speaker for the Dead, by Orson Scott Card 4* (but not nearly as good as Ender's Game)
Things I've Done in London
Tourist Sites --Sir John Soane house/museum --Whitechapel Bell Foundry Tour --Kensington Palace / Last year of the Deb exhibit --Tower of London / Crown Jewels --Tate Britain --National Gallery --Annie Leibovitz exhibition at National Portrait Gallery --National Portrait Gallery --Cabinet War Rooms / Churchill Museum --Kew Gardens (Royal Botannical Gardens) --British Museum --London's Transport Museum --Victoria & Albert Museum --Tate Modern Museum --Bath (Roman Spa; Abbey; Gravel Walk; etc.) --Greenwich (National Maritime Museum, Royal Observatory...) --Tourist Walking (Buckingham, Westminster, Big Ben...) --Borough Market --St. Martin-in-the-Fields --Camden Market Plays / Shows --Cirque-du-Soleil's Quidam @ Royal Albert Hall --London Parade (New Year's Day) --Handbell concert in Westcliff-on-Sea --Spamalot --Advent Carols by Candlelight @ St Martin... --Lord Mayor's Show (parade) --The Lion King (musical) --Carmina Burana @ Royal Albert Hall --Manon (ballet) @ Royal Opera House --Wicked (musical) --King Lear @ Shakespeare's Globe Theatre --Twelfth Night @ Regent's Park Open Air Theatre (rained out after 40 minutes) --The Phantom of the Opera @ Her Majesty's Theatre --Strictly Gershwin @ Royal Albert Hall (National Ballet) --Avenue Q (musical) --Romeo & Juliet @ Opera House (Royal Ballet) --Bruce Springsteen (concert) --The 39 Steps (play)
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