OK. I just went to Amazon to see if the paperback of World War Z was out yet, and was bemused by the "Customers who bought this book.." suggestions. [link] (for posterity: "The Zombie Survival Guide; Day by Day Armageddon; Monster Nation: a Zombie Novel; Monster Island: A Zombie Novel; and The Road, by Cormac McCarthy)

Also, The Physics of the Buffyverse has a cool cover. [link]

(for posterity: "The Zombie Survival Guide; Day by Day Armageddon; Monster Nation: a Zombie Novel; Monster Island: A Zombie Novel; and The Road, by Cormac McCarthy)

Ahahahaha. One of these things is not like the other.

Twice a day behind their house the tide boarded the sand. Four times a year the seasons flopped over. Clams live like this, but without so much reading.

Hee! I like that.

Also, The Physics of the Buffyverse has a cool cover.

Nextdoor!Teacher bought me that at a science conference.

I read Physics of the Buffyverse last month. It was not what I wanted it to be, but once I got over that it was pretty enjoyable and explained some stuff I didn't understand before.

I've got World War Z out from the library, but I've been afraid to start reading it right before bed as I don't want to be lying in the dark trying to work out how zombie-proof my house is instead of sleeping.

I couldn't read Pilgrim at Tinker Creek ( and me an environmentalist!), but I loved An American Childhood and thought The Living was quite impressive. I don't recall being bogged down by the prose in either of those two.

It feels less stained glass, more Bedazzler.

!!! That.

I like Dillard. I don't like thinking 'what an interesting and arresting verb choice for that sentence'. Especially not again and again. What makes teaching and critiquing easier doesn't always make for an enjoyable or enlightening read.

Top 3 favorite writers' writers, anyone? (if you're like me, it depends on the day...) Today, they are probably going to be:

- George Oppen - Gerard Manley Hopkins - Muriel Rukeyser

I never did manage to finish Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. And it seemed like the sort of book I would have liked, when I tried to read it in the seventies, the eighties, and once more somewhere around 2000. My eyes would inevitably glaze over and my mind would wander away all befuddled, as if they were being asked to decipher some dense legalese at the bottom of a contract with Satan.

So I gave up. It wasn't as if my semester grade depended upon finishing PaTC.

Top three favorite writers off the top of my head... John Irving, Tom Robbins, Douglas Adams.

Oh, I have so many... Tom Robbins is one, though. I think it explains a lot about my nature that Robbins is at one end and David Simon's at the other.