Archive for April, 2005
Wednesday, April 6th, 2005
Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress
Susan Jane Gilman is a wonderful writer, and Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress is hysterically funny. Side-splittingly, pee-in-your-pants funny.
I must give you an example: In the title essay, Gilman describes the day she first tried on her wedding dress — a moment she intended to be the token "I tried" before giving up […]
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Tuesday, April 5th, 2005
Decisions, Decisions
Jill is trying to decide whether to stay in DC and complete her class, or leave early and move down here.
I have no idea what to tell her.
On the one hand, it absolutely sucks having her there while I’m here. I miss her terribly. It’s HARD. (You have to imagine that being said in a […]
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Monday, April 4th, 2005
End of Quarter Reading List Review
Part of why I started this blog is because I was curious about my own reading habits. I’ve never kept track of what I read — I just inhaled books, some of them, over and over again. Being in a new place, I think I’m reading a little bit more than average, but other than […]
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Monday, April 4th, 2005
Children of Amarid
An interesting good vs evil fantasy novel, Children of Amarid is the first volume of a trilogy that is — at least in volume one — set in a world where magic developed instead of mechanical technology. Magic develops as a result of a human being "binding" to an animal, usually a hawk or an […]
