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.…
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This 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…
7 CommentsSexual ethics are fascinating, aren’t they? But I got tired of this book anyway. It was all disorganized. I was pleased to learn about Sylvester Graham, a completely joyless fellow who advocated bland food, invented the graham cracker, and said that if someone didn’t do something to stop little boys from masturbating, they would grow up and become “a living volcano of unclean propensities and passions”. I swear. Those were his words. I suspect they are burned into my brain forever. But as for the rest, Ms. Horowitz kept teasing me with the promise of a good story, and then…
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