Random rambling
Jun. 2nd, 2007 09:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
opengoalRecovering from a bad cold that has lasted all week. I've been going straight to bed after dinner every night throughout this - Imagine that! Luckily the football season is over and it's summer hiatus for most TV shows so I don't have to worry about those at least.
I'm still trying to clear the books I've bought over the years. I'm reading Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye and Bend Sinister: The Gay Times Book of Disturbing Stories - I'm mostly bored with the former but quite entertained by the latter.
I guess I must've bought Cat's Eye because it's on some women's writings reading list. I like the subject it deals with. In fact, I wish more people would write about growing up as girls. But it's far too slow for my current state of mind. I just don't have the patience to sit through 70 pages before Cordelia actually appears.
Bend Sinister is completely different. Anthologies can be hit-or-miss, especially anthologies of ghetto literature - Bending the Landscape: Fantasy is one of those I don't quite enjoy and haven't really finished - but this book is quite an entertaining mix of varied horror/supernatural and thriller/crime. I even toyed with the idea of using one of the short stories in my translation workshop but I guess anything with sex or homosexuality wouldn't have gone down very well in class discussion, esp. with a professor who is over sixty years old and some classmates who are born again Christians.
ETA: This post took me two days to upload - I don't know what's wrong with LJ. Anyway, I've now finished reading both Bend Sinister and Bending the Landscape: Fantasy. In hindsight, both are just quite forgettable, just another notch on my Books Read list.
I'm still trying to clear the books I've bought over the years. I'm reading Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye and Bend Sinister: The Gay Times Book of Disturbing Stories - I'm mostly bored with the former but quite entertained by the latter.
I guess I must've bought Cat's Eye because it's on some women's writings reading list. I like the subject it deals with. In fact, I wish more people would write about growing up as girls. But it's far too slow for my current state of mind. I just don't have the patience to sit through 70 pages before Cordelia actually appears.
Bend Sinister is completely different. Anthologies can be hit-or-miss, especially anthologies of ghetto literature - Bending the Landscape: Fantasy is one of those I don't quite enjoy and haven't really finished - but this book is quite an entertaining mix of varied horror/supernatural and thriller/crime. I even toyed with the idea of using one of the short stories in my translation workshop but I guess anything with sex or homosexuality wouldn't have gone down very well in class discussion, esp. with a professor who is over sixty years old and some classmates who are born again Christians.
ETA: This post took me two days to upload - I don't know what's wrong with LJ. Anyway, I've now finished reading both Bend Sinister and Bending the Landscape: Fantasy. In hindsight, both are just quite forgettable, just another notch on my Books Read list.
