I suppose I shouldn't be getting so emotional over Ray Bradbury's death, but I can't help it. It's like losing a friend.

So my friend Liz and I have just had an epic Twitter back-and-forth about casting a hypothetical movie version of Catherine, Called Birdy, which was (and is!) one of our favorite books. The cast list is as follows ( Read more... )

So I am taking a break from the great ordeal that is packing, because my feet hurt and my back hurt and I've been packing since 5:30 except for about 45 minutes in the middle when I got to eat pizza and read a book, Guy Gavriel Kay's The Summer Tree. I bought it at a used bookstore for like $3, because I needed something to read and because I ( Read more... )

 So tired these days. So busy. On the plus side, have been forced into tidiness because the landlord is showing our apartment on a regular basis. Thus far, no takers. (I don't blame them - it's a shoebox.)

Slept poorly last night due to crazy homeless man screaming in the alley behind our building at 4:30am.  That was disturbing.

Am completely ( Read more... )

 It's Laura Ingalls Wilder's birthday! I have read those books so many times and I still absolutely love them. I can't wait until I actually have enough room to move them out of my parents' house and into mine. (Things are, uh, a little cramped in our apartment. Also I have approximately 1937429002 books, so I could only move a selection of them if ( Read more... )

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I don't remember the first time I learned that Neil Gaiman was Jewish, but I do remember that it hadn't occurred to me before. I mean, you read most Michael Chabon, and it's pretty obvious. (Summerland is the least obvious, and my favorite. The two may be connected.) There's not much in Gaiman's novels and stories to suggest any particular ethnic ( Read more... )

Well, cleolinda said she identified with Little Women's Jo March, but it was always Meg, for me. Poor Meg, who just wanted to fit in and be liked and be normal and fall in love and live happily ever after - and who completely freaks out when "THE JELLY WON'T JELL!" and she can't figure out how to make the recipe work and the house is a mess because she's ( Read more... )

No idea where Canticle for Leibowitz is. Guess I'll just have to get a copy from the library.

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Writin' a paper. Got a title and an outline, but the title's awful clunky:

Strangers in a Strange Land: The Displacement of John the Savage and the Time Traveler in Brave New World and The Time Machine
Anyone have any ideas for smoothing it out? I'd considered using "No Way Back" vs. "Strangers in a Strange Land" except 1) the Time Traveler did ( Read more... )