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starladyWhat I'm reading
I started Brain Plague by Joan Slonczewski for Wiscon and I'm thrilled to report that it's really interesting so far. I've heard mixed things about The Highest Frontier, and I won't have time to read The Door into Ocean before the con, but this is a pretty cool book in its own right. I'm also still poking away at Martial. I like him better than Statius, but not better than Catullus. I would totally trade Statius for more of the poetae novelli, not gonna lie. (I'm sorry, Statius. The Thebaid just isn't that interesting. I know from experience.)
What I've just read
I buckled down and devoured The Perilous Gard all in one night over the weekend. I LOVED IT.
What I'll read next
I need to read Judith Halberstam's The Queer Art of Failure before the person who leant it to me graduates next month. I have a recent dissertation that should go quite well with that to read, and I also finally trekked over to Kinokuniya and bought volumes 8 and 9 of Ôoku (yes, this is all related). It's April, which is the cruelest month, and I have a copy of Grief Lessons staring at me from my shelf. Anne Carson is also going to be giving a reading on campus in two weeks (!). I'd also like to read Cast in Ruin before I head to Toronto at the end of the month and buy Battle from Bakka Phoenix Books, where Michelle West works. (!!!!!!!!!)
I started Brain Plague by Joan Slonczewski for Wiscon and I'm thrilled to report that it's really interesting so far. I've heard mixed things about The Highest Frontier, and I won't have time to read The Door into Ocean before the con, but this is a pretty cool book in its own right. I'm also still poking away at Martial. I like him better than Statius, but not better than Catullus. I would totally trade Statius for more of the poetae novelli, not gonna lie. (I'm sorry, Statius. The Thebaid just isn't that interesting. I know from experience.)
What I've just read
I buckled down and devoured The Perilous Gard all in one night over the weekend. I LOVED IT.
What I'll read next
I need to read Judith Halberstam's The Queer Art of Failure before the person who leant it to me graduates next month. I have a recent dissertation that should go quite well with that to read, and I also finally trekked over to Kinokuniya and bought volumes 8 and 9 of Ôoku (yes, this is all related). It's April, which is the cruelest month, and I have a copy of Grief Lessons staring at me from my shelf. Anne Carson is also going to be giving a reading on campus in two weeks (!). I'd also like to read Cast in Ruin before I head to Toronto at the end of the month and buy Battle from Bakka Phoenix Books, where Michelle West works. (!!!!!!!!!)