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[booklog 2006]
...apparently it's been a month since i updated this. oops. i'm sure i'm forgetting some, but here's what i remember:
5, 6. Dancing at the Edge of the World, Always Coming Home, Ursula K. Le Guin. Dancing is essays and transcripts of speeches, generally organized as "thoughts on words, women, places". a good read. Always Coming Home...i've read it three or four times now, and i notice new bits each time. it was interesting to see more of the structure of the thought-experiment this time around, to see what variables she played with and how, and what she glossed over or left out.
7, 8. Strangers in Paradise pocket-books 1 & 2, Terry Moore. argh, cliffhangers! now i really, really want to read the rest of them.
9. Adventures in the Dream Trade, Neil Gaiman.
10. The Illustrated Man, Ray Bradbury. this was also the third or fourth read, and i still like it very much, but this time around the sexism interfering with my enjoyment of some of the stories. meh. (like this:
from No Particular Night or Morning, in which a man's mind gets eaten by the nothingness of space - "Play a dozen jazz records for him, wave a bottle of fresh chlorophyll and dandelions under his nose, put grass under his feet, squirt Chanel on the air, cut his hair, clip his fingernails, bring him a woman, shout, bang, and crash at him, fry him with electricity, fill the gap and the gulf, but where's the proof? You can't keep proving to him forever. You can't entertain a baby with rattles and sirens all night every night for the next thirty years. Sometime you've got to stop. When you do that, he's lost again.")
11. The Tale of the Unknown Island, José Saramago. a very small and simple story told beautifully, and the illustrations (by Peter Sís) are exactly right.
5, 6. Dancing at the Edge of the World, Always Coming Home, Ursula K. Le Guin. Dancing is essays and transcripts of speeches, generally organized as "thoughts on words, women, places". a good read. Always Coming Home...i've read it three or four times now, and i notice new bits each time. it was interesting to see more of the structure of the thought-experiment this time around, to see what variables she played with and how, and what she glossed over or left out.
7, 8. Strangers in Paradise pocket-books 1 & 2, Terry Moore. argh, cliffhangers! now i really, really want to read the rest of them.
9. Adventures in the Dream Trade, Neil Gaiman.
10. The Illustrated Man, Ray Bradbury. this was also the third or fourth read, and i still like it very much, but this time around the sexism interfering with my enjoyment of some of the stories. meh. (like this:
from No Particular Night or Morning, in which a man's mind gets eaten by the nothingness of space - "Play a dozen jazz records for him, wave a bottle of fresh chlorophyll and dandelions under his nose, put grass under his feet, squirt Chanel on the air, cut his hair, clip his fingernails, bring him a woman, shout, bang, and crash at him, fry him with electricity, fill the gap and the gulf, but where's the proof? You can't keep proving to him forever. You can't entertain a baby with rattles and sirens all night every night for the next thirty years. Sometime you've got to stop. When you do that, he's lost again.")
11. The Tale of the Unknown Island, José Saramago. a very small and simple story told beautifully, and the illustrations (by Peter Sís) are exactly right.