Books.
I've been *reading*. School's out, and I'm getting cravings to read books and talk about them. So first I finished The Gun Seller, which I'd started just after Christmas and never got through. It was acceptably entertaining, but I'd forgotten all the minor characters and the complicated web of secret identities and how they all relate... I like Hugh Laurie generally, but I'd really rather be reading Nick Hornby or David Sedaris if I'm looking for textual entertainment.
So then, yesterday, I picked up Mythologies, which was lent to me ages ago and I hadn't gotten around to yet. It's probably a good thing that I didn't get around to it until after taking Engl 251B (Criticism II), because now I've got a vague understanding of what he means when he talks about ideologies and the whole mythologies thing (but not enough of an understanding to explain it to anyone; just a handwavey kind of an "oh I get it" feeling). I'm almost finished and quite enjoying it.
I feel like I'll be in a Nick Hornby mood after that. Ideally more of his essays for The Believer (or whatever), but I don't know if we have the next volume of those...
So then, yesterday, I picked up Mythologies, which was lent to me ages ago and I hadn't gotten around to yet. It's probably a good thing that I didn't get around to it until after taking Engl 251B (Criticism II), because now I've got a vague understanding of what he means when he talks about ideologies and the whole mythologies thing (but not enough of an understanding to explain it to anyone; just a handwavey kind of an "oh I get it" feeling). I'm almost finished and quite enjoying it.
I feel like I'll be in a Nick Hornby mood after that. Ideally more of his essays for The Believer (or whatever), but I don't know if we have the next volume of those...