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⌈ Secret Post #2460 ⌋

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I'm currently reading I Shall Wear Midnight by Terry Pratchett. A Hat Full of Sky is my favourite Tiffany Aching book so far but I'm seriously enjoying this one, too. The line about Angua biting nobody except maybe Carrot was so precious.

Caper by Parnell Hall (A gumshoe novel. I love crime noir.)

If anyone can recommend any crime noir/hard boiled fiction/gumshoe detective novels, I am all ears.

Just started Wizards At War. I think it's only the second time I've read it, despite the million times that I've devoured the eariler books in the series.

I'm almost done with The Amber Spyglass.

Also, 'If Not, Winter', a collection of Sappho's fragments. But that's for school.

And also "A Queer History of the United States" but that's going a bit slowly.

Oh! And I just FINALLY read The Complete Persepolis the other day.

The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men by Christina Hoff Sommers. Very good read so far.

That does sound like a good read. I'll be sure to check it out, thanks.

It focuses on how the education system in America is horribly failing boys and how feminist lobbying has a huge effect on this.

That sounds like bullshit MRA drivel. Put that fucking book in the fire right goddamned now. seriously. stop. you're better than this.

I've read it. It's... deeply flawed, and relies more on anecdotes than data (as well as ignoring data to the contrary) but I trust the intelligence and critical thinking of most people enough to recognize that.

How about you go kindly fuck off. :) Just because a book focuses on things boys suffer from, it doesn't mean it is MRA drivel.

Edited 2013-09-28 01:46 (UTC)

Re: What are you guys currently reading?

ariakas - 2013-09-28 02:37 (UTC) - Expand

Re: What are you guys currently reading?

(Anonymous) - 2013-09-28 03:37 (UTC) - Expand

Re: What are you guys currently reading?

kaijinscendre - 2013-09-28 03:48 (UTC) - Expand

Pliney the Younger's letters,but I'm also poking around for a good historical fiction set in the american revolution.

Perdito Street Station by China Mieville trading off with various comics and the complete works of HP Lovecraft (mostly trying to get all the important ones to understand The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath, at the moment just starting The Cats of Ulthar).

The Saga of the People of Laxardal. I'm having a hard time getting into it, not to mentin keeping track of all the people named Thorkel, Thorfinn, Thorgrim, Thorolf, Thorstein or Thord.

I'm reading a collection of Edgar Allen Poe stories. I'd forgotten just how much I absolutely LOVE Poe :)

My older daughter has just started reading Poe. She kept begging us to start reading Stephen King, but I'm not ready for those nightmares. LOL So far, "Hop-Frog" is her favorite story in the collection she's reading.

LOL, "The Black Cat" is more horror in 12 pages than most horror writers manage in 600 pages.

Re: What are you guys currently reading?

lunabee34 - 2013-09-28 03:02 (UTC) - Expand

I was just thinking today of how much I loved The Gold-Bug when I was a kid.

Poe is great.

Re: What are you guys currently reading?

lunabee34 - 2013-09-28 03:40 (UTC) - Expand

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. Damn, I love his work. Truly the greatest American writer of our time, imo.

Volume One of Terra Nova: An Anthology of Contemporary Spanish Science Fiction, which probably has the best cover art of any book I've picked up lately.

I just wrapped up Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction, which I found to be a very mixed collection.

Started as a free ebook Jack Chalker's River of the Dancing Gods, and partway through David Abram's Spell of the Sensuous, which is about language, animism, and phenomenology.

Oh yeah, and I got Rat Queens #1 earlier this week, which is the first single-issue comic in a long time where I didn't experience buyer's remorse. It's a nice satire of fantasy RPGs, and interrupts any attempt at gravitas with excessively bloody comic mayhem.

Is Beyond Binary a trans* collection, or does it include stories with LGB characters who aren't genderqueer?

In my view, the editor seems to deal with issues of bisexuality and sexual fluidity (and for that matter speculative fiction) very broadly. One of the worst reviews (worst in terms of review quality, not just giving the book a bad rank) over on goodreads was "bisexuality is not sexual fluidity." In many of the stories, the sexuality and gender of characters isn't explicitly defined as a single word. The opening story "Sea of Cortez" as an example deals with LGBT identity in the U.S. Navy during WWII and drag as the only outlet at the time for gay men and transgender women to break out of the gender roles.

When I wrote that it was uneven above, what I meant was that there were some stories that I found to be brilliant, and some that just didn't work for me due to the way they were written. ("Ghost Party" and "Bleaker Collegiate Presents an All-Female Production of Waiting for Godot" didn't work for me.)

Sorry, I just realized that question sounded pushy and rude. I was just curious because I love speculative fiction and I always long for sci fi about bi characters (because I am myself) but I have a hard time finding it.

Screwtape Letters. I love CS Lewis u guise. Line that stuck with me just now;

"Courage is not simply ONE of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the point of highest reality. A chastity or honesty, or mercy, which yields to danger will be chaste or honest or merciful only on conditions."

I pride myself on 'niceness' but am starting to realize how insipid I can be. Sigh.

I'm kind of stalled in A Storm of Swords right now. I mostly read during my long commute, but haven't taken said commute as much lately.

For pleasure-reading, I'm rereading Wyrd Sisters in dead tree format and Kissing the Witch on my Nook. School-wise, I'm starting to very carefully go through the May 1933 issue of the science fiction magazine Amazing Stories for a class I'm taking on pulps. I'm also reading a couple of books on the history of sci-fi as a sort of supplement to that.

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