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viciouswishesI now have the internet at my house. I am sitting on my couch watching crappy episodes of Friends because there's nothing else on. I could get out my DVDs but that would require effort. Must change TV channel.
Books I have finished reading:
Cable & Deadpool V3: Awesome. This volume plays with Deadpool as the unreliable narrator when he goes to investigate the homicide.
Spiderman Loves Mary Jane V3: I love this comic. It's interesting as they've introduced Gwen Stacey into the cast and they're still in high school. It makes me wonder if Gwen or MJ got the short end of the stick in ending up with Peter.
Color Purple by Alice Walker: Wonderful read. It's so sad, but yet so hopeful. I spent the entire book wanting the best for the characters, even the characters I started out not liking.
The Parable of Talents by Octavia Butler: This book took me a little while to get into, but when I did, I couldn't put it down. At it's core, it's a story about the estrangement and differences between a mother and daughter, but the story of a struggling, dying Earth and its people finding something different and better is actually quite interesting. It reminded me, at the end, a lot of the Celestine Prophecy in message, only I think Butler did it better.
The Bell Jar by Silvia Plath: I'm a big fan of Plath's poetry and I also enjoy her writing in general. However, this book is notably depressing and somewhat of a "this is what people will act like when they're suicidally depressed." I didn't finish about the last 100 pages because I found that I wanted a different story for Esther Greenwood. I wanted something else for Plath and women writers.
I also read like half of Ondaatje's The English Patient (my favorite book). I do love it so between the relationships, prose, and the desert; it gets me every time.
Currently, I'm reading The Hidden Law by Michael Nava, one of his Henry Rios novels. I read the final one, Rag and Bone, several years ago for a LGBT lit course and enjoyed it so. Rios is the very much the Hispanic Perry Mason, only out of the closet, instead of *nudge, nudge* he doesn't date his female secretary. I met Nava (he came to the class) and thanked him for writing a well-rounded bisexual character (Henry's boyfriend in the last novel).
Now I have the DVD player running the Gilmore Girls, much better.
I should also mention that even on a filter, dear flist, you are longer than LJ lets me read, so I'm only skipping a tiny bit. Let me know what you wrote or what you did.
Books I have finished reading:
Cable & Deadpool V3: Awesome. This volume plays with Deadpool as the unreliable narrator when he goes to investigate the homicide.
Spiderman Loves Mary Jane V3: I love this comic. It's interesting as they've introduced Gwen Stacey into the cast and they're still in high school. It makes me wonder if Gwen or MJ got the short end of the stick in ending up with Peter.
Color Purple by Alice Walker: Wonderful read. It's so sad, but yet so hopeful. I spent the entire book wanting the best for the characters, even the characters I started out not liking.
The Parable of Talents by Octavia Butler: This book took me a little while to get into, but when I did, I couldn't put it down. At it's core, it's a story about the estrangement and differences between a mother and daughter, but the story of a struggling, dying Earth and its people finding something different and better is actually quite interesting. It reminded me, at the end, a lot of the Celestine Prophecy in message, only I think Butler did it better.
The Bell Jar by Silvia Plath: I'm a big fan of Plath's poetry and I also enjoy her writing in general. However, this book is notably depressing and somewhat of a "this is what people will act like when they're suicidally depressed." I didn't finish about the last 100 pages because I found that I wanted a different story for Esther Greenwood. I wanted something else for Plath and women writers.
I also read like half of Ondaatje's The English Patient (my favorite book). I do love it so between the relationships, prose, and the desert; it gets me every time.
Currently, I'm reading The Hidden Law by Michael Nava, one of his Henry Rios novels. I read the final one, Rag and Bone, several years ago for a LGBT lit course and enjoyed it so. Rios is the very much the Hispanic Perry Mason, only out of the closet, instead of *nudge, nudge* he doesn't date his female secretary. I met Nava (he came to the class) and thanked him for writing a well-rounded bisexual character (Henry's boyfriend in the last novel).
Now I have the DVD player running the Gilmore Girls, much better.
I should also mention that even on a filter, dear flist, you are longer than LJ lets me read, so I'm only skipping a tiny bit. Let me know what you wrote or what you did.
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on 2007-06-05 05:26 am (UTC)Gabrielle
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on 2007-06-06 07:40 pm (UTC)Gabrielle