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ten days meme (day 10)
Jun. 24th, 2012 11:28 pmDay Ten: One confession.
Okay, I do in fact have a confession here. I've been reading a book for two days that embarrasses me enough that I'm consciously hiding its title when I'm reading it out in the world because I don't want people to judge me. I got it on purpose when I saw it on the new shelf at the library, it's not like someone forced it on me. That book?
The Land of Painted Caves, by Jean M. Auel.
The inside of the cover says it's the conclusion to the series, so completism is thus satisfied. That is my excuse. Why I started reading these in the first place, well. They were some of the very few books I could read as a kid which had... herbalism. (Yes, really.) And, you know, self-sufficient tomboy heroine hunts and survives even when everyone tries to actually kill her. The books also had sex, which was highly interesting, though the first book's was rapey rape obvious even to a ten-year-old. Also animal friends! Inventing ALL THE THINGS! How to make leather white!
I mean, you have to just ignore Jondalar's INFINITE MANPAIN because hisdick passion is TOO BIG. This is a lot of ignoring, but the frequent didactic infodumps about coltsfoot making things taste salty are completely worth it.
The overall premise of the series is a walking tour of European artifacts and cave paintings, so there's a lot of fairly nifty art described in detail too. Sketchy generalizations based on a few artifacts are presented as official-sounding fact more often than I am really happy with, but it also means Auel got to make up the sounds of semi-related languages a bit. She does a decent job of this, though we only see it for Homo sapiens sapiens in people's names. (The Italian Tribe was a little disconcerting.)
The thing that kept cracking me up as I read this volume (and kept me subdividing my bookmark to share things later) was that apparently the people in this volume are all quite consistently named in the language that prescription drug trade names come from:
Proleva. (antioxidant)
Echozar. (angiotensin antagonist)
Palidar. (antimalarial)
Levela. (anti-aging serum)
Jemoral. (jemoral jossa is below Poupart's ligament)
Garthadal. (did you mean Gardasil?)
Wylopa.
Jondecam.
Norava.
Tivonan.
Farnadal.
Jonokol.
Siralana.
Demoryn.
Lorigan.
Jeviva.
Jonclotan.
Marsheval.
Tremeda.
Sergenor.
Look at all that trademark potential waiting to happen! Any name not already glossed is available to YOU for creative branding opportunities. Go to it, my friends.
Day One: Ten things you want to say to ten different people right now.
Day Two: Nine things about yourself.
Day Three: Eight ways to win your heart.
Day Four: Seven things that cross your mind a lot.
Day Five: Six things you wish you’d never done.
Day Six: Five people who mean a lot (in no order whatsoever)
Day Seven: Four turn-offs.
Day Eight: Three turn-ons.
Day Nine: Two images that describe your life right now, and why.
Okay, I do in fact have a confession here. I've been reading a book for two days that embarrasses me enough that I'm consciously hiding its title when I'm reading it out in the world because I don't want people to judge me. I got it on purpose when I saw it on the new shelf at the library, it's not like someone forced it on me. That book?
The Land of Painted Caves, by Jean M. Auel.
The inside of the cover says it's the conclusion to the series, so completism is thus satisfied. That is my excuse. Why I started reading these in the first place, well. They were some of the very few books I could read as a kid which had... herbalism. (Yes, really.) And, you know, self-sufficient tomboy heroine hunts and survives even when everyone tries to actually kill her. The books also had sex, which was highly interesting, though the first book's was rapey rape obvious even to a ten-year-old. Also animal friends! Inventing ALL THE THINGS! How to make leather white!
I mean, you have to just ignore Jondalar's INFINITE MANPAIN because his
The overall premise of the series is a walking tour of European artifacts and cave paintings, so there's a lot of fairly nifty art described in detail too. Sketchy generalizations based on a few artifacts are presented as official-sounding fact more often than I am really happy with, but it also means Auel got to make up the sounds of semi-related languages a bit. She does a decent job of this, though we only see it for Homo sapiens sapiens in people's names. (The Italian Tribe was a little disconcerting.)
The thing that kept cracking me up as I read this volume (and kept me subdividing my bookmark to share things later) was that apparently the people in this volume are all quite consistently named in the language that prescription drug trade names come from:
Proleva. (antioxidant)
Echozar. (angiotensin antagonist)
Palidar. (antimalarial)
Levela. (anti-aging serum)
Jemoral. (jemoral jossa is below Poupart's ligament)
Garthadal. (did you mean Gardasil?)
Wylopa.
Jondecam.
Norava.
Tivonan.
Farnadal.
Jonokol.
Siralana.
Demoryn.
Lorigan.
Jeviva.
Jonclotan.
Marsheval.
Tremeda.
Sergenor.
Look at all that trademark potential waiting to happen! Any name not already glossed is available to YOU for creative branding opportunities. Go to it, my friends.
Day One: Ten things you want to say to ten different people right now.
Day Two: Nine things about yourself.
Day Three: Eight ways to win your heart.
Day Four: Seven things that cross your mind a lot.
Day Five: Six things you wish you’d never done.
Day Six: Five people who mean a lot (in no order whatsoever)
Day Seven: Four turn-offs.
Day Eight: Three turn-ons.
Day Nine: Two images that describe your life right now, and why.
