Been tired. Been re-reading as opposed to reading new. Heinlein (where everyone always has a quick rejoinder) is always a fun read in that kind of situation. So, for the nth time, Robert A.Heinlein's Friday. She's an enhanced (courtesy of people as well as chance diddling her genes) human. Faster, smarter, and sexier than everyone around her, she's a courier running around a Balkanized earth, but all she really wants is to belong.
Friday, March 07, 2003
Been tired. Been re-reading as opposed to reading new. Heinlein (where everyone always has a quick rejoinder) is always a fun read in that kind of situation. So, for the nth time, Robert A.Heinlein's Friday. She's an enhanced (courtesy of people as well as chance diddling her genes) human. Faster, smarter, and sexier than everyone around her, she's a courier running around a Balkanized earth, but all she really wants is to belong.
Tuesday, March 04, 2003
Seemed apropos.
1. What is your favorite type of literature to read (magazine, newspaper, novels, nonfiction, poetry, etc.)? Short stories.
2. What is your favorite novel? That is simply impossible to answer. Favorite how? That I re-read when my brain is tired? That changed my worldview and opened my eyes to something there all along? That is on my top ten best books of the decade list? Be more specific.
3. Do you have a favorite poem? (Share it!) "The Fog", by Carl Sandburg, "This is Just To Say", by William Carlos Williams, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", by T.S. Eliot, "Ulysses", by Tennyson, Buson's haiku about his wife's comb, among others by him and of his period. So elegant, so neatly turned, and yet, with such great depths.
4. What is one thing you've always wanted to read, or wish you had more time to read? Will and Ariel Durant's Story of Civilization, Edward Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
5. What are you currently reading? Tolkien's "Return of The King" (though I stopped for a bit to read about 12 other books in between) and "The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius".
The Curse of Chalion, by Lois McMaster Bujold.
Yes, again. It's been a long couple weeks. I have a great fondness for Castillar dy Cazaril, and his dry humor(s). Cazaril has been on a road for a very long time, but he never expected it to lead to galley slave, post as secretary-tutor to the Royesse Iselle, and a host to miracles.
