Comments on: Meet a Contributor: Chally!

By: Kaitlyn

Kaitlyn — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:24:21 +0000

Chally – oh, barefoot is best! Then flipflops or thongs or whatever people call them.

Then…. way down the line… comfy tennis shoes. (Or sneakers. or running shoes. I grew up calling them tennis shoes though I’ve only played real tennis a few times.)

Then dressy sandals with low or no heel.

Then… when you’re 150 and in the casket all dolled up – stilettos.

By: Chally

Chally — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 04:49:32 +0000

My favourite kind of shoes is no shoes at all! I am fond of my ballet flats, and my trusty toffee-coloured sandals, and I was given a rather lovely (if slightly too big) pair of velvety heels the other day. Alas I have yet to coordinate my shoes with my knitting, and right now it’s too hot for shoes or knitted things! A May trip does not look to be possible for some years, but I would love to attend WisCon! It has been a dream of mine ever since I heard of it. I would love to meet you all.

There you go, Tlönista! We’re neither of us alone in our unpronouncability!

By: Tlönista

Tlönista — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 04:15:31 +0000

Oh, Chally! (Pronouncing it correctly this time.)

My Hebrew name (???) starts with the same sound. And yes, many English speakers are hopeless with it.

By: Jesse the K

Jesse the K — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 03:53:51 +0000

Desserts and relatives and reading are all very well…but I want to know about the truly crucial things. What’s your favorite kind of shoes? Do you color coordinate with your latest knitting project? Are you wearing them now? And what about Margo Lanahan?

(also Sheri Tepper’s Sideshow centers on conjoined sister-brother &has interesting things to say about gender & social construction of disability.

US trip must include the Midwest, last full weekend in May!

By: Kaitlyn

Kaitlyn — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 03:44:33 +0000

Chally – “Oh, the ‘ch’ is not an Australian thing, heaps of Aussies do the chair thing too.”

I’m sure they do. I just like taking any chance to call Oz weird.

Oh, and some of my best friends are Ozzies.

By: Shiyiya

Shiyiya — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 03:24:51 +0000

I think I only got to Wednesday or Thursday. Not positive which, was too long ago and my memory is too wonky. Wouldn’t mind reading them again! I think the bit of Seventh Tower that made me think Animorphs might have been the covers. The editions I saw were very…. shiny.

And my memory has now popped up with its intermittent notice of HEY YOU LIKED THIS BOOK AND THEN IT GOT LOST! about a book I lost about TEN YEARS AGO. Yes, I would like to still know where my copy of the My Side Of The Mountain trilogy was but do I have to think about it so often?! I even remember the author which I’m quite bad about a lot of the time >_< (Jean Craighead George!)

By: Chally

Chally — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 03:21:33 +0000

Yep, that guttural.

Keys to the Kingdom!! I can’t wait for hte last one! I started the first Seventh Tower the other day but didn’t bring my library card, but I think I’ll take it out sometime.

By: Dorian

Dorian — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 03:05:26 +0000

So would it rhyme more with “Polly” then?

Also– ‘ch’ as in ‘loch’? Or “Chanukah”? Or is it not that guttural?

By: Shiyiya

Shiyiya — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 03:01:14 +0000

I assume the ch is like the ch in chanukah that I also can’t pronounce? (and loch, iirc.)

I never have any idea the nationality of authors, heh I’ve read the Old Kingdom ones, and I think five of the Keys To The Kingdom ones because that was all that was out and in my school library. And some of the Seventh Tower ones but they were kinda… young. They made me think of Animorphs for some reason.

I do fantasy waaaaay more than SciFi. I antirecommend that anyone ever read Anne Bishop. Because torture scenes. Horrible ones. I don’t know why a friend recommended her to me D:

By: Chally

Chally — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 02:41:37 +0000

The ‘a’ is more an ‘ah’ than the flatter ‘a’ in Sally, but pretty close to that, yeah! It’s hard to render this stuff in text I guess.