You guys! You guys, I have no idea who this guy is or what the hell this video is, but. But.

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I feel like the Grinch on Christmas morning. My heart just grew three sizes, swear to god. (via cormallen)

( One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey )

First: Ask and I shall receive. Flist, you rock.

( Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov )

Random: Today, the cat stepped on the on/off switch to my power strip and I lost an amount of work that might be roughly estimated at "a whole lot."

Grr.

( My life. Ask yourself, 'how much do I care?' )

Fannish randomness: I porned at
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I know This Much is True, Wally Lamb

I am so glad I picked this up.  The story of the twin brother of the paranoid schizophrenic trying to heal his own anger issues while somehow saving his brother sounds exactly like the kind of Oprah’s Book Club thing I would avoid, but it is beautiful.  It ends up all wound up with issues of race in ways I ( Read more... )

Catcher in the Rye, J D Salinger

Well, that was pretty much exactly what I expected it to be, wasn’t it?  Glad I finally got around to it.  The bit of me that loves unreliable narrators had a blast, at least.

Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco

This is something else.  Is it a murder mystery?  Historical fiction?  An apocalypse allegory?  A theology musing?  A semiotics treatise?  Damned if I know.  Maybe one day I’ll be smart enough to understand this book; in the meantime, I’m just in awe.  Eco plays with metatextuality in his, what, four different ( Read more... )

( My first ever negative review of a Pratchett book )

( Well, that was disturbing. )

Beowulf

One of those things that I should have read a long time ago, and have read, and don't think I got as much out of as I should have.  In any case, it does indeed have that particular feel of oral heroic epic, which appeals, and I'm going to read more and try to get into what I know I missed, and I'm glad I did.  There's obviously some ( Read more... )