You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive.
So I'm mostly posting this speech about atheism by Natalie Angier for my own reference, and also as sort of a cross-reference to my own letter to God from last week, but it's good reading in case any of you are so inclined (she said, tongue firmly in cheek because yay for having friends who are into reading!)
So um, who's read The Dispossessed and wants to geek out about it lit nerd style? Extra bonus points if you find a copy of Samuel R. Delany's Jewel-Hinged Jaw and read his essay about The Dispossessed first. Right now I'm at the stage where I'm taking notes on the novel and getting myself psyched up to read the essay before it tells me I'm all
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Those of you who don't read Neil Gaiman's livejournal or missed the plug for it there might still be interested in Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (the link goes to the book's official website.)
Yay for nifty-sounding new books! And it comes out in the U.S. on September 8, just in time to keep me happy when I start frothing at the mouth for The
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I always read Alice Walker too quickly. This time it's Anything We Love Can Be Saved (and big thanks again to somechicksings for the recommendation) and now that I've articulated this revelation it's got me wondering what else I've read too quickly and need to reread. The Left Hand of Darkness leaps to mind as a book I felt like I was missing the point of even
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So I finished Dhalgren today, and now I'm taking notes on all the pages I bookmarked and dogeared (I know, bad me) so I can finally return it to the library more than a month overdue (and that's double-bad me for abusing a library book, yes). And then I ran across this little gem, which seemed entirely appropriate for inflicting on my LiveJournal:
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in no order except what my brain randomly produced them in:
Go to Saturday Market and pick up our first CSA box! Woo! (done as of 3:30 PM Saturday)
Share said box of veggie goodness with theshytiger
Get groceries: laundry soap, shampoo, conditioner, sundried tomatoes, and maybe others depending on the contents of the CSA box (mostly done as of 7:15 PM
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