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The full spectrum.
Jul. 25th, 2005 07:44 pmToday is a great example of the full spectrum in reading pleasure.
During meals I browsed through the June 30th Issue of Rolling Stone. Cover article on Jessica Alba who sounds like a great lady, actually. Two articles on opposite spectrums of sexuality from a Christian viewpoint (one on christian virgins, one on child abusing cultists), and an article on Norman Mailer.
On the way to and from work, while sucking down iced coffee from the Perfect Cup on Damen, I reread bits of the latest book from Kim Harrison, "Every Which Way But Dead". Rachel Morgan, frizzy red haired witch, is one of my current heroes of the good-trash novel world.
During some down time at work I read a bit of a heavy non-fiction book by Maland or Matland or somebody (the book is still at work) on Intellectual Culture of France in the 17th Century. I'm reading a lot of books like that this year as book research. (I kid myself that I'll write this complex fantasy novel about political revolution set in an alternate france. I haven't written a new chapter in it in like 5 months because I'm "researching" aka procrastinating).
During lunch, I read two of the Marvel X-Men collected books, in my ongoing attempt to read my way through all of the current series. District-X: Mr. M was a Brian Michael Bendis's "Powers" style story, about the action involved in policing a mutant heavy district in NYC. Excalibur bk.1 was a post-genocide Genosha story centering on Magneto and Charles Xavier. District-X was fairly entertaining, the Excalibur story didn't really do it for me, though it was fun to see the Prof. and Magneto in a more discursive as opposed to combative mode.
Last night before bed I finished up the Georgette Heyer story _The Unfinished Clue_. I found it very satisfying, with a wide range of female characters. Perhaps due to my lack of knowledge of brit. social history I have trouble figuring out whether some of these stories are set just post WWI or just post WWII. But I liked it despite that uncertainty on my part.
Skimmed through my collegiate rag, the Voice. Other Carleton grads are just more motivated than me. Though I'm old enough now that people I knew regularly show up in the alumni section in huge wedding photos. There are more alums in those photos than I had guests at my wedding.
Probably something else before bed. But that's enough for now.
During meals I browsed through the June 30th Issue of Rolling Stone. Cover article on Jessica Alba who sounds like a great lady, actually. Two articles on opposite spectrums of sexuality from a Christian viewpoint (one on christian virgins, one on child abusing cultists), and an article on Norman Mailer.
On the way to and from work, while sucking down iced coffee from the Perfect Cup on Damen, I reread bits of the latest book from Kim Harrison, "Every Which Way But Dead". Rachel Morgan, frizzy red haired witch, is one of my current heroes of the good-trash novel world.
During some down time at work I read a bit of a heavy non-fiction book by Maland or Matland or somebody (the book is still at work) on Intellectual Culture of France in the 17th Century. I'm reading a lot of books like that this year as book research. (I kid myself that I'll write this complex fantasy novel about political revolution set in an alternate france. I haven't written a new chapter in it in like 5 months because I'm "researching" aka procrastinating).
During lunch, I read two of the Marvel X-Men collected books, in my ongoing attempt to read my way through all of the current series. District-X: Mr. M was a Brian Michael Bendis's "Powers" style story, about the action involved in policing a mutant heavy district in NYC. Excalibur bk.1 was a post-genocide Genosha story centering on Magneto and Charles Xavier. District-X was fairly entertaining, the Excalibur story didn't really do it for me, though it was fun to see the Prof. and Magneto in a more discursive as opposed to combative mode.
Last night before bed I finished up the Georgette Heyer story _The Unfinished Clue_. I found it very satisfying, with a wide range of female characters. Perhaps due to my lack of knowledge of brit. social history I have trouble figuring out whether some of these stories are set just post WWI or just post WWII. But I liked it despite that uncertainty on my part.
Skimmed through my collegiate rag, the Voice. Other Carleton grads are just more motivated than me. Though I'm old enough now that people I knew regularly show up in the alumni section in huge wedding photos. There are more alums in those photos than I had guests at my wedding.
Probably something else before bed. But that's enough for now.
