Multimedia - my new pet, plus book recommendations

[mary_j_59]

Sevvie the fish
Originally uploaded by maryj59

Here's my new little betta, who is, of course, called Sevvie. He is very pretty, but is worrying me because he won't eat anything. I hope he makes it.

Otherwise - thanks to all your comments, I realized most of you didn't know the books I was talking about.

Here is a link to the first few pages of Michelle Paver's Wolf Brother My sister also did a podcast where you can hear Iam McKellan reading the first chapter - he has done all the audio for these books. You can download it either by looking for kiscocast on podomatic.com, or by going to www.torak.info and downloading it there.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30965518/ns/today-today_books/

The BBC filmed the first Green Knowe book, and there are a couple of clips on youtube. Here's the first one - makes you wonder where Rowling got some of her ideas!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdhiI8XmJQI

Enjoy!

Comments

[hope-24.livejournal.com]

Ooh... a Siamese Fighting Fish! I know that you can't keep him with another of the same species - but can they have any other companions?

[mary-j-59.livejournal.com]

Some can - but some fish will pick on them, and they will pick on others (anyone they can catch who happens to look like a male betta in any way). So, as I understand it, they do better alone in large bowls or small tanks. Sevvie is a successor to my sister's Rubeus, who lived for five years or so in this bowl - he was a great fish, and quite sociable. Sevvie doesn't seem as friendly - at least, not so far. Maybe it's the name!