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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. (!!!!!!!!!)
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Date: 2013-04-04 00:05 (UTC)Ahaha, because you were writing this post? BEST.
EEEEEE you read Perilous Gard!!! OMG I love it so much! It's one of the rare books I got my hands on in Taiwan that actually match up with other USian people's childhood favorites (thank you Scholastic despite the terrible old cover). Romance via ditch drainage!
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Date: 2013-04-04 00:16 (UTC)YES, OMG, IT WAS SO GOOD. KATE IS THE BESTEST EVER EVER EVER.
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Date: 2013-04-04 01:14 (UTC)---L.
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Date: 2013-04-04 01:17 (UTC)Oceans
Date: 2013-04-04 01:39 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-04-04 03:31 (UTC)the Metamorphoses is structured in a meandering sort of way, where it cuts from one story to another. It happens to have a bit set during the Trojan War, among the Greeks outside Troy, in the war's first year. Nestor, the famed wise counselor, begins, in the background, a discussion of philosophy.
We cut back to Troy eventually. In the background, Nestor is still discussing philosophy.
Gradually, subtly, and with malice aforethought, we realize that it is the tenth year of the war and he has just been going on all this time...
I swear I know people like that. Apparently Ovid did too.
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Date: 2013-04-04 03:35 (UTC)(Myself, I am artistically very much a Son of Ovid, even more than I am of Auden. But that's just me.)
---L.
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Date: 2013-04-04 03:36 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-04-04 04:03 (UTC)