December Daily: comfort media

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dorinda - Top 5 comfort movies? Or comfort reads, if you'd rather

Comfort media, then. Mostly books.

5. Lilo & Stitch.
4. Katherine Addison's The Goblin Emperor.
3. Samuel Delany's Babel-17.
2. Cyrano de Bergerac. (I'm not sure what translation I had in high school -- possibly the Louis Untermeyer one, from Dover Thrift? A while back I read the Anthony Burgess one and I liked it OK, but of course there are lines I remember vividly from that old translation that Burgess just doesn't do justice to.)
1. Terry Pratchett -- the complete works, really, but I think my most re-read is the seasonally appropriate Hogfather.




Upcoming prompts below the cut.





21 summerstorm - because it puts me in mind of blackjack, do you play any card or board games regularly? Or videogames? top 5 games?
22 summerstorm - top 5 poems?
23 fox - Top five Advent carols, maybe
24 fox - Top five Christmas carols
25 break for Christmas
26 ride_4ever - top 5 dS fanworks other than fic (arts, podfics, vids)
27 azurelunatic - 5 reasons you enjoy a party in the dark times of the year
28 james - Top 5 places in the past you would like to visit. Top 5 places in the present you would like to visit.
29 laurenthemself - Top five snack foods (sorry, the requested date got taken between the time you posted and the time I edited)
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31 mergatrude - what five complements/encouragements would you give your young self.

Comments

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The kidlet has studied French, and every now and then I hatch a plan of trying to rope them into reading it with me in tandem (the spouse and I have done that with Spanish with good success) but it's a big undertaking and I've just never followed through with it.