Peeps, by Scott Westerfeld; My Sister Sif, by Ruth Park

[rachelmanija]

It was coincidental that I read these two books in succession, but they turned out to make a good paired reading as fantasies of ecology which deal with how altered humans fit into a changing environment.

Peeps

Comments

[oracne]

I liked PEEPS a lot.

The parasite stuff didn't bother me, possibly because I already knew about all of them, from a Medical Anthropology class in college. (I got to do a presentation on the Guinea Worm, with Slides! But I will not tell you about the Guinea Worm right now, because it is kind of gross.)

[rachelmanija]

The guinea worm didn't bother me, because it was endemic where I lived as a kid, so I was already familiar with it and it had lost its gross-out novelty. It was the ones I hadn't heard of before that freaked me out.

[oracne]

Ah, that is true! I had totally forgotten that you would know the Guinea Worm.

[lnhammer]

I keep hoping to talk our Sometimes Roommate, an epidemiologist and chronic public health worker in third-world countries, into reading Peeps. So far she's disclaimed all interest.

---L.

[lnhammer]

That is, she chronically is a third-world public health worker, not that she works on chronic public health issues, though she does that too. I think I need some after-lunch coffee.

---L.

[thomasyan]

I'm feeling stupid. That's an eye-catching new icon you have, but why is it appropriate for this post?

[rachelmanija]

One book involves sex and one involves people being mostly naked and dripping wet. I was just looking for an excuse to se it, actually.

[thomasyan]

:) I thought that might be it, but in the entry where you asked for a NaDW icon, you explained that you hoped you wouldn't be using it much since you associated it with minor disasters.

Hm. I just realized: I guess it is safe enough for work that I can continue reading LJ at work!