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WHAT I WAS READING ON THE WAY TO WORK: Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife by Francine Prose (with a name like that, how could one NOT become a student of literature? And/or a novelist, as the case seems to be?) It's a fascinating exploration of the diary of Anne Frank as a piece of literature and as a cultural phenomenon, with sections on the creation, publication, adaptation to theater and film, and use in education. Last night and this morning I was reading the section on Holocaust deniers' attacks on the book.
WHAT I MOST RECENTLY FINISHED: The King of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner. I <3 Gen. That is all.
WHAT I MOST RECENTLY REREAD: Have His Carcase, Dorothy L. Sayers. Don't pay full price for the Kindle ebooks of LPW books. THEY HAVE TYPOS. It is not ok. Semi-recently I have also reread five or six of the Dragonriders of Pern books, which was interesting mostly in that it made me notice what I didn't notice when I read them in the early nineties. I remembered that I'd been disappointed by the "SETTLERS FROM EARTH" backstory because I didn't want science fiction mixed up with dragons, but I'd forgotten how present that thread was from early on, and had totally missed the suggestions of 60s/70s commune values that appear in the favorable contrast between sexually liberated weyrs and conservative holds.
WHAT'S UP NEXT: Something by Neal Stephenson (I have both Anathem and Cryptonomicon on my reader) or, if it comes in at the library, The Silver Swan by Benjamin Black.
WHAT I MOST RECENTLY FINISHED: The King of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner. I <3 Gen. That is all.
WHAT I MOST RECENTLY REREAD: Have His Carcase, Dorothy L. Sayers. Don't pay full price for the Kindle ebooks of LPW books. THEY HAVE TYPOS. It is not ok. Semi-recently I have also reread five or six of the Dragonriders of Pern books, which was interesting mostly in that it made me notice what I didn't notice when I read them in the early nineties. I remembered that I'd been disappointed by the "SETTLERS FROM EARTH" backstory because I didn't want science fiction mixed up with dragons, but I'd forgotten how present that thread was from early on, and had totally missed the suggestions of 60s/70s commune values that appear in the favorable contrast between sexually liberated weyrs and conservative holds.
WHAT'S UP NEXT: Something by Neal Stephenson (I have both Anathem and Cryptonomicon on my reader) or, if it comes in at the library, The Silver Swan by Benjamin Black.
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