Hello! I am still on vacation, and thus I still can't be bothered to come up with anything other than book recommendations. So, for the third week in a row, here is one of my favorite books: Through the Arc of the Rainforest by Karen Tei Yamashita. This was one of those rare books I… Continue reading Through the Arc of the Rainforest
Month: December 2013
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Last week reminded me how much I like talking about books that I like, which I don't actually do that often. I tend to write more posts about things that I don't like, which makes it seem like I don't actually like books, which couldn't be further from the truth! To rectify this, and also… Continue reading We Have Always Lived in the Castle
The Years of Rice and Salt
You may have noticed it has been a while since I have talked about what I am reading. There is a very good reason for this. The reason is that I have been reading Kim Stanley Robinson's The Years of Rice and Salt, which is 763 small-print pages long, and as I may have mentioned before… Continue reading The Years of Rice and Salt
Spam Poetry Revisited
I was writing another post for today, but it got a little out of hand. Like, the kind of out of hand that happened that time I wrote about Easy A in eight parts. This one will probably go up later, maybe as more than one post, after I have done some more example-gathering and research,… Continue reading Spam Poetry Revisited
Drunk Movie Monday – Gor
Welcome to the second installment of Drunk Movie Monday! Yes, this is actually going to be a thing from now until I get bored of it. This month, we're sticking with the sci-fi theme, but taking it back a couple of decades to the 80s. Really, just about any film from the 80s is a… Continue reading Drunk Movie Monday – Gor