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bending_sickle...that knows how to read.*
Last Thursday i tracked down a second-hand English-books bookstore. (Sque-ee indeed.) I spent a lovely afternoon there, because I'm suck a book geek, jotting down interesting titles and/or books, such as:
How Can You Bear to be Human? by N Bentley
The Private Memoris and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by J Hogg
The Monarch of the Glen** by Compton Mackenzie
The Scapegoat by Daphne du Maurier
Don't Talk to me About Love*** by Craig McGregor
Who Needs Man by Edmund Cooper (a really old SF novel, of dubious literary quality, wherein the human society is, thanks to cloneing advances, near 100% women, save for the few renegade men the ladies hunt down and kill upon graduation. Until, that is, love gets in the way.)
Woormwood by GP Taylor
Servants of Twilight by D Koontz
I ended up buying Night Watch by TPratchett, which I've been reading so avidly I've almost finished it, and Kushiel's Dart, of which I've heard a lot, but never with enough detail. Still, that one line, "That which yields, is not always weak," is pretty neat****. (The fact that there's now 5 novels in the series, "Kushiel's Legacy", is a bit daunting.)
Links of the Day:
Tom McCollum's Quotes Page
MShades' Review of Night Watch.
* Guards! Guards! by TPratchett
** Only cool because NGaiman's American Gods novella is also called that.
*** Very Marvin-ish.
**** Albeit abusive of the poor defensive coma.
Last Thursday i tracked down a second-hand English-books bookstore. (Sque-ee indeed.) I spent a lovely afternoon there, because I'm suck a book geek, jotting down interesting titles and/or books, such as:
How Can You Bear to be Human? by N Bentley
The Private Memoris and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by J Hogg
The Monarch of the Glen** by Compton Mackenzie
The Scapegoat by Daphne du Maurier
Don't Talk to me About Love*** by Craig McGregor
Who Needs Man by Edmund Cooper (a really old SF novel, of dubious literary quality, wherein the human society is, thanks to cloneing advances, near 100% women, save for the few renegade men the ladies hunt down and kill upon graduation. Until, that is, love gets in the way.)
Woormwood by GP Taylor
Servants of Twilight by D Koontz
I ended up buying Night Watch by TPratchett, which I've been reading so avidly I've almost finished it, and Kushiel's Dart, of which I've heard a lot, but never with enough detail. Still, that one line, "That which yields, is not always weak," is pretty neat****. (The fact that there's now 5 novels in the series, "Kushiel's Legacy", is a bit daunting.)
Links of the Day:
Tom McCollum's Quotes Page
MShades' Review of Night Watch.
* Guards! Guards! by TPratchett
** Only cool because NGaiman's American Gods novella is also called that.
*** Very Marvin-ish.
**** Albeit abusive of the poor defensive coma.
