Books and musing

[lferion]

So, Banned Books Week starts tomorrow, and here is an excellent post about it, with a whole passel of nifty icons to spread the love. Thank you unovis_lj for the link and the info!

I'm thinking that a copy of And Tango Makes Three needs to come and live at my house.

And, a book review/commentary thing I've been meaning to do for nearly a year now --

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Comments

[dm24]

I remember reading Forbidden Tower in my teens and being extremely captivated and rereading it. It broke boundaries that I hadn't really considered. However, when I reread it years later, I was not very impressed. I have to agree that it still seems to hold up for the younger reader because my son went through all the Darkover books when he was a young teen.

[dm24]

I just checked out the Wolf Companion book on Amazon. My favorite comment in the recs section:

"...my question is why would an author add such trash to a good idea, otherwise well executed?"

This happens when slash-fanfic writers are let loose on the mainstream.

There, there.

[valgards]

You are a different person in a different place. What we love at twenty will sometimes be a far cry from the things we love at 45 (which makes those things that stand the test of time even more valuable). The memory of an old girlfriend is the same.

Whether it's books, movies, TV shows, plays, or music, I find many things revisited after years of absence are strangely unfamiliar. I can see the outline of what I thought I knew but, like an old friend changed by years of hard life and drink, grown puffy around the eyes and weak around the belly, they are hard to recognize. But that is not right, for then a change has taken place in them and, you are right, the change has taken place in us. Perhaps it's like going home for the first time in years and knowing that, while the streets are still the same, the buildings have changed (and not for the better), so you can recognize the place as having once belonged to your world and yet you still fell, just slightly, a stranger--the original meaning of "There was no "there" there."

[brewsternorth]

Mem'd (via jblum). I think it's your final paragraph that got me.