'Just Rewards (2)'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
I think the book is also about the force of creation; the unstoppable impetus some people feel to create, to hell with morals or social mores, they have to get the angels/demons inside them out.
Interesting, given that my understanding is that the book itself was written when she and Shelley and Byron, I think, were up at some hunting lodge and challenged each other to write horror stories to fend off the boredom.
Also, vw, I wrote some of my best papers about books I passionately disliked or disagreed with. It can be REALLLY satisfying to tear a novel or author to shreds in an academically precise, well-researched way.
(OR maybe that's just my little lit kink coming out, non?)
Thanks for the rec, P-C, I'll have to look for it. I'm a journal junkie. That and correspondence. It's like eavesdropping, even in fiction.
Just finished the latest Kim Harrison. She brought me back tothe fold with that ending
We're having our charity book sale here at work today. As is usual, while we were setting up the books on tables in the cafeteria, people started coming over and looking through them even though we weren't ready to open up yet (no money, no signs with prices, etc.). I did a fast look-through to see if there was anything I'd want, and got Molly Ivins' Shrub, The Alienist, and Time-Travelers Wife, for $4 total! And then, while I was handling the sales for the first few hours, someone came up with Eats Shoots and Leaves, which I totally missed on my cursory lookthrough and I am thoroughly bummed because he got it instead of me. Humph.
The Onion's AV Club is firing on all cylinders this week: neither the random rules interview with Berkeley Breathed nor the collection of favorite Vonnegut quotes should be missed.
Dear Book Pimpers:
Have finished Shards of Honor. Stop. Library has Barrayar on hold for me; will pick it up after work. Stop. Was at Half-Price Books at lunchtime; bought To Say Nothing of the Dog. Stop.
I also noticed, when at Half-Price Books and looking for Barrayar, that LeVar Burton has a book in the Science Fiction section. This both amuses and troubles me.
I'm still troubled when I catch Reading Rainbow and see his actual eyes.
LeVar Burton has a book in the Science Fiction section
James Doohan did a series of three with S. M. Stirling that are pretty good space opera.
Ages ago, Lee recommended a non-fiction book about a shipwreck. Was it In the Heart of the Sea, or something else? [link]