On cats, freaks and tables
Wheeee, first finished book entered in the table.
I loved Auster's The Brooklyn Follies. Heart-warming and bittersweet and with an edge to it that most heart-warming books completely and utterly fail at.
I've stated that Robert Bogdan's Freak Show was highly enjoyable, but I think I need to elaborate a little. Enjoyable, yes, but with an apologetic tone to it I didn't much like. Bogdan keeps going on and on about how the attitude towards the mentally and/or physically challenged was different in the heyday of the sideshow, and after about two mentions of that I felt a need to call him and say "yeah yeah whatevah we know that. We know that the world has reached the point where historical treatment of various groups must be hidden away at all cost, like Pippi Longstocking being rewritten so her dad isn't a king of Negroes anymore. We get it."
Besides, while we may not have sideshows anymore, there are plenty of tabloids and magazines more than happy to show off the freaks, be it c-celebs or mutants.
In other news, the husband ordered a :CueCat and I just got it to work, woo hoo! Once we've worked out why LibraryThing refuses to acknowledge most of our test books, we'll set to scanning the bar codes on our books and finally get a proper overview of the insanely messy collection.
I loved Auster's The Brooklyn Follies. Heart-warming and bittersweet and with an edge to it that most heart-warming books completely and utterly fail at.
I've stated that Robert Bogdan's Freak Show was highly enjoyable, but I think I need to elaborate a little. Enjoyable, yes, but with an apologetic tone to it I didn't much like. Bogdan keeps going on and on about how the attitude towards the mentally and/or physically challenged was different in the heyday of the sideshow, and after about two mentions of that I felt a need to call him and say "yeah yeah whatevah we know that. We know that the world has reached the point where historical treatment of various groups must be hidden away at all cost, like Pippi Longstocking being rewritten so her dad isn't a king of Negroes anymore. We get it."
Besides, while we may not have sideshows anymore, there are plenty of tabloids and magazines more than happy to show off the freaks, be it c-celebs or mutants.
In other news, the husband ordered a :CueCat and I just got it to work, woo hoo! Once we've worked out why LibraryThing refuses to acknowledge most of our test books, we'll set to scanning the bar codes on our books and finally get a proper overview of the insanely messy collection.