late book day meme
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jinianThe books I'm reading:
Harmony by Project Itoh, one of the recent translations of Japanese SF that have been popping up on the shelves, in which medicalized utopia is boring and frustrating for some people.
Sphinx's Queen by Esther Friesner, second of two historical YA novels about Nefertiti; I particularly like her Amenophis.
Honey Hunt by Miki Aihara, who has here achieved a similar compulsive-reading need in me to her previous work, the Manga of Deep Feminist Shame, but is largely confining the true skeeviness to which her id compels her to the drama in which the hapless heroine has been cast: science teacher blackmails student with a phone-photo of her changing clothes, and she seems to like this just fine.
The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins, a good overview of the evidence for evolution with lots of color pictures.
The books I'm writing: Working on some biology research for journal publication, but no books as such.
The book I love the most: Ha. I'll give you the one you're least likely to have read -- The Book of Phoebe by Mary-Ann Tirone Smith, a novel about a smart, high-achieving girl who gets pregnant and has a brilliant adventure in Paris finding people to adopt her baby. Why love that? It's the first book I ever read (in high school) that used an unreliable narrator in a way I still think is excellent.
The last book I received as a gift: Eels by James Prosek, and I was thrilled because I'd just gotten it out the University Library.
The last book I gave as a gift: Probably to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
hattifattener for Xmas? That was GAGA, Jason Shiga's Meanwhile, and Chew v1. I gave the public library's copy of Kathi Appelt's Keeper to marzipan_pig on Saturday.
The nearest book: (that I haven't already mentioned) A nice hardcover copy of The Years of Rice and Salt from the ALISS book sale and the new Lynda Barry are under my desk.
The last book I bought myself: I don't know. I keep going in to the U Bookstore and not finding anything I really want. It might've been at that ALISS sale, where I got a few Meg Cabots, some Agatha Christies, and an assortment of random stuff including a good knitting primer with sweater patterns and a book from 1993 about public libraries as tourist destinations.
Harmony by Project Itoh, one of the recent translations of Japanese SF that have been popping up on the shelves, in which medicalized utopia is boring and frustrating for some people.
Sphinx's Queen by Esther Friesner, second of two historical YA novels about Nefertiti; I particularly like her Amenophis.
Honey Hunt by Miki Aihara, who has here achieved a similar compulsive-reading need in me to her previous work, the Manga of Deep Feminist Shame, but is largely confining the true skeeviness to which her id compels her to the drama in which the hapless heroine has been cast: science teacher blackmails student with a phone-photo of her changing clothes, and she seems to like this just fine.
The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins, a good overview of the evidence for evolution with lots of color pictures.
The books I'm writing: Working on some biology research for journal publication, but no books as such.
The book I love the most: Ha. I'll give you the one you're least likely to have read -- The Book of Phoebe by Mary-Ann Tirone Smith, a novel about a smart, high-achieving girl who gets pregnant and has a brilliant adventure in Paris finding people to adopt her baby. Why love that? It's the first book I ever read (in high school) that used an unreliable narrator in a way I still think is excellent.
The last book I received as a gift: Eels by James Prosek, and I was thrilled because I'd just gotten it out the University Library.
The last book I gave as a gift: Probably to
hattifattener for Xmas? That was GAGA, Jason Shiga's Meanwhile, and Chew v1. I gave the public library's copy of Kathi Appelt's Keeper to marzipan_pig on Saturday.The nearest book: (that I haven't already mentioned) A nice hardcover copy of The Years of Rice and Salt from the ALISS book sale and the new Lynda Barry are under my desk.
The last book I bought myself: I don't know. I keep going in to the U Bookstore and not finding anything I really want. It might've been at that ALISS sale, where I got a few Meg Cabots, some Agatha Christies, and an assortment of random stuff including a good knitting primer with sweater patterns and a book from 1993 about public libraries as tourist destinations.
