Aw, Season of Mists is great. I like it so much. It makes me nostalgic for Past Jenny, who was young and dumb and had yet to discover most of her now-favorite films and music and TV shows (including, of course, the other six volumes of Sandman). Oh, wow, that’s really, really true. I hadn’t discovered Joss Whedon yet, or The Office, or Doctor Who; I hadn’t yet seen any of my current five desert island DVDs (fifth series of Buffy, MirrorMask, Empire Records, Angels in America, and Before Sunrise); I didn’t know the Decembrists, the Shins, Neko Case –…
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So last night I dreamed that I was reading this book of Neil Gaiman’s I’d never heard of before. It wasn’t out yet, so the pages were black with white print, instead of white with black print. After a while I realized that I had a large stack of these books with black pages, and they were all by Neil Gaiman. IT WAS AMAZING. And I’m reading a book of C.S. Lewis’s essays, and he said this: [A reader] does not despise real woods because he has read of enchanted woods: the reading makes all real woods a little enchanted.…
3 CommentsThis review brought to you by: Indie Sister, the same girl responsible for my reading Neil Gaiman. I am always wary of Indie Sister’s book suggestions. Sometimes she says to read things like Coin-Locker Babies, which gave me terrible underwater nightmares, and which I have really tried hard to forget completely; and sometimes she says to read Neil Gaiman and gives me a massive huge new source of happiness. I checked out A Canticle for Leibowitz a month ago, and I only finished it last night. I kept putting it off. I’m not the hugest fan of science fiction that…
8 CommentsI dreamed that I was at Barack Obama’s inauguration with the Endless. IT WAS AWESOME. It was so good that I turned off my alarm twice in order to carry on having the dream. (I never turn off my alarm.) I was very chummy with all of the Endless, except that Dream didn’t really want to chat. This led me to wonder whether I was one of the Endless. I didn’t see Despair or Desire, so I was probably one of those two, if I was anyone. Destruction was ridiculously huge, but very friendly. Destiny was surprisingly forthcoming with information…
3 CommentsI got this out of the library on a whim, as I was passing, because I liked the cover and I haven’t read any new graphic novels recently. Shortcomings is about a guy called Ben Tanaka and the breakdown of (primarily) his relationship with his community activist girlfriend Miko. I found it hard to like for two reasons: 1. I do not like alienated protagonists. I just don’t. I wanted to take Holden Caulfield and feed him to hungry lions. So I didn’t like Ben, and I didn’t want to read about him, because he was completely unpleasant. 2. And…
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