Squick
I did many things today -- grocery shopped, repotted the calla lily, laundry and etc. And I invented a casserole that tasted pretty good.
Just finished reading Octavia E. Butler's Dawn and Donna Jo Napoli and Richard Techen's Spinners. Both good books -- Dawn talks about nuclear holocaust and the survivors being rescued by aliens who want to mingle genetic data. Sounds silly, but works out to be an interesting book on what it is to be human, how different one can be before not being yourself, communities and the building thereof. Spinners is a retelling of Rumpelstiltskin. Not so much a retelling, since the authors stick to the plot completely, but they flesh out all the characters and make them real people. And oh it's a miserable book. Not the craft of it, which is good, but just so depressing! I think I'm going to have to stop reading Donna Jo Napoli because almost everything in her books end in death and destruction and in human faults never being redeemed or anything. It's a rather bleak worldview, IMHO. And Dawn wasn't much happier of a read, so now I'm desperately backpedaling and picking up Nora Roberts, which is much more feel good.
That is all.
Just finished reading Octavia E. Butler's Dawn and Donna Jo Napoli and Richard Techen's Spinners. Both good books -- Dawn talks about nuclear holocaust and the survivors being rescued by aliens who want to mingle genetic data. Sounds silly, but works out to be an interesting book on what it is to be human, how different one can be before not being yourself, communities and the building thereof. Spinners is a retelling of Rumpelstiltskin. Not so much a retelling, since the authors stick to the plot completely, but they flesh out all the characters and make them real people. And oh it's a miserable book. Not the craft of it, which is good, but just so depressing! I think I'm going to have to stop reading Donna Jo Napoli because almost everything in her books end in death and destruction and in human faults never being redeemed or anything. It's a rather bleak worldview, IMHO. And Dawn wasn't much happier of a read, so now I'm desperately backpedaling and picking up Nora Roberts, which is much more feel good.
That is all.