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Electra ([personal profile] starlady) wrote2011-03-04 11:11 am
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Happy ἐξελαυνω Day! Also World Book Day

The books I'm reading: Oh, so many, some for years. I'm hoping to finish The Silver Chair and Anne Allison's Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club this weekend.

The books I'm writing: That one with the pirates and the volcano, and that other one with the princesses which I will not re-set into a cod-1930s, no I will not. Plus some academic papers.

The book I love the most: Too many to name. But the one trilogy of books I haul around the world with me is Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials.

The last book I received as a gift: Mary Elizabeth Berry's Japan in Print and Christopher Bolton's book on Abe Kobo.

The last book I gave as a gift: Hmm. I have not given many books recently. I gave my dad Bob Woodward's new book for Christmas.

The nearest book: Dorinne Kondo's Crafting Selves: Power, Gender, and Discourses of Identity in a Japanese Workplace.

The last book I bought myself: Mary Gentle's Lost Burgundy, C.S. Lewis and his brother's childhood stories, and Shriek: An Afterword by Jeff VanderMeer.

As if I could ever pick just one book that I love the most. And now I'm off to do all the tasks ever, including translating the new chapter of Gate 7.

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[personal profile] seekingferret 2011-03-04 07:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Book I'm reading: Among others, Zadie Smith's The Autograph Man.

Book I'm writing: Eventually, Draft II of the Metametanovel. This upcoming NaNo, possibly a new commentary on Pale Fire.

Book I love the most: Ulysses by James Joyce. By far.

Last book I got as a gift: A Michael Stackpole Battletech novel that's been sitting in the back of my car since New Year's, unread.

Last book I gave as a gift: Spaceman Blues by Brian Francis Slattery.

Nearest book: The Temperature Handbook, the gigantic Omega Engineering catalogue.
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[personal profile] snarp 2011-03-04 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club

This sounds simultaneously fascinating and soul-crushingly depressing. Which way is it tipping?