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Lately, on the bookshelf.
Aug. 9th, 2005 07:25 amOk, so if I don't do this daily I will inevitably miss some.
I've read about 100 pgs of Boswell's Life of Johnson. It's a bit of a slow read for me, but I'm learning a lot about style and social life in the mid 1700s, so that's the goal and it's being achieved.
I'm just about done with Candice Hern's "Once a Dreamer" that I picked up at the dollar store. Just your basic regency historical romance of the "silly" kind. Not quite as charming as Julia Quinn, and for my money none of these folks are as fab. as Jo Beverley, who is the only one I still buy new of the regency authors.
And now that I've read Georgette Heyer, all the regency writers seem that much less realistic and intriguing. The bar there got set way high.
Finished a book by Zenna Henderson of her non-People short stories. That woman is/was a fabulous writer. I think the title was "Holding Wonder". Seek out, if you can, her fab. "The People: No Different Flesh". The only reason this woman never got the mainstream recognition she deserves has to be because she was (almost?) exclusively a short story writer and the form doesn't get the props it should from the general public.
I reread "Sorcery and Cecelia" by Patricia Wrede and Caroline Stevermer. What a fabulous book. Just a fluffy little regency/magic combination from before anyone did stuff like that. (There are a few romance novelists who do it now, but not as well or with as much class.) My favorite bit in the book is the little subtle feminist thing they throw in: in their Regency, it is Lady Caroline Lamb who is the famous poet, and Lord Byron who is the hopelessly infatuated one making a mockery of himself by throwing himself at her.
Read a bit at the bookstore of "A Taste of Crimson" a shared-world vampire/werewolf romance by Marjorie Liu, the athour of Tiger Eye(s?). Not bad, though I'm a tidge dubious about shared-world romance as a novel category.
Comic books-
v.12 of Usagi Yojimbo (the samurai bunny) came home with me from the library. I loooooved this comic as a kid, mostly for the animals. It's much more adult than I remember.
various X-Men vols. on lunch break. Day of the Atom, Dream's End, and some one or two others.
I've got a birthday present sitting on my telephone console, just waiting for the weekend. Cool. And my husband went out shopping after I went to bed, bought me a coffee drink, and put it in the fridge with a little note since he wouldn't be getting up and getting coffee with me in the morning (as it is his day off). Also, my final for my Legal Research class was turned in yesterday, so now I have a few blissful weeks before my next class starts. *ah*.
I've read about 100 pgs of Boswell's Life of Johnson. It's a bit of a slow read for me, but I'm learning a lot about style and social life in the mid 1700s, so that's the goal and it's being achieved.
I'm just about done with Candice Hern's "Once a Dreamer" that I picked up at the dollar store. Just your basic regency historical romance of the "silly" kind. Not quite as charming as Julia Quinn, and for my money none of these folks are as fab. as Jo Beverley, who is the only one I still buy new of the regency authors.
And now that I've read Georgette Heyer, all the regency writers seem that much less realistic and intriguing. The bar there got set way high.
Finished a book by Zenna Henderson of her non-People short stories. That woman is/was a fabulous writer. I think the title was "Holding Wonder". Seek out, if you can, her fab. "The People: No Different Flesh". The only reason this woman never got the mainstream recognition she deserves has to be because she was (almost?) exclusively a short story writer and the form doesn't get the props it should from the general public.
I reread "Sorcery and Cecelia" by Patricia Wrede and Caroline Stevermer. What a fabulous book. Just a fluffy little regency/magic combination from before anyone did stuff like that. (There are a few romance novelists who do it now, but not as well or with as much class.) My favorite bit in the book is the little subtle feminist thing they throw in: in their Regency, it is Lady Caroline Lamb who is the famous poet, and Lord Byron who is the hopelessly infatuated one making a mockery of himself by throwing himself at her.
Read a bit at the bookstore of "A Taste of Crimson" a shared-world vampire/werewolf romance by Marjorie Liu, the athour of Tiger Eye(s?). Not bad, though I'm a tidge dubious about shared-world romance as a novel category.
Comic books-
v.12 of Usagi Yojimbo (the samurai bunny) came home with me from the library. I loooooved this comic as a kid, mostly for the animals. It's much more adult than I remember.
various X-Men vols. on lunch break. Day of the Atom, Dream's End, and some one or two others.
I've got a birthday present sitting on my telephone console, just waiting for the weekend. Cool. And my husband went out shopping after I went to bed, bought me a coffee drink, and put it in the fridge with a little note since he wouldn't be getting up and getting coffee with me in the morning (as it is his day off). Also, my final for my Legal Research class was turned in yesterday, so now I have a few blissful weeks before my next class starts. *ah*.
