Books Read and those about to be...
Sep. 1st, 2006 08:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
maaru... is that you can never have enough (fiction) books to read most of of the time, given that you're only subsisting on student allowance.
Even though I've been meaning to save money, since I just bought a DVD writer and has about a bunch of bills to pay, I ended up buying two books and borrowing another.
Finished the two bought ones in a couple of hours for each. They were Isaac Asimov's Bicentennial Man and Other short stories, and Casebook of the Black Widowers. Short story anthologies are dirt cheap when they're old and secondhand, not to mention somewhat obscure. Plus, short stories are convenient when you're just eating dinner before you tackle that kanji homework.
Borrowed Kushiel'sChosen by Jacqueline Carey from Gellie, one of our org's applicants. Can't wait until I get down to reading this later. I finished the first book, Kushiel's Dart, two weeks ago and fell madly in love with it. Why? Take a fantasy epic, a la Robert Jordan or Terry Goodkind type of book, the ones that come with their own map at the start (ye spawns of Tolkien) and have it written by a woman. XD Yep, no big, burly man wielding a sword(or other bladed phallic symbol) for your hero here. Instead, have a crazy, uke girl with no weapon but her brains and beauty and a very interesting... sexuality. Add a chock-ful of Bishoujos and Bishounens. Make everyone gloriously Bi. Make the principal power players women. I ended up finishing it in the space of 8 hours (and that's because, if I enjoy smething, I read slower) over which I managed to study for an exam. But damn happy.
I'm gonna buy an entire set of this when I save enough money.
Even though I've been meaning to save money, since I just bought a DVD writer and has about a bunch of bills to pay, I ended up buying two books and borrowing another.
Finished the two bought ones in a couple of hours for each. They were Isaac Asimov's Bicentennial Man and Other short stories, and Casebook of the Black Widowers. Short story anthologies are dirt cheap when they're old and secondhand, not to mention somewhat obscure. Plus, short stories are convenient when you're just eating dinner before you tackle that kanji homework.
Borrowed Kushiel'sChosen by Jacqueline Carey from Gellie, one of our org's applicants. Can't wait until I get down to reading this later. I finished the first book, Kushiel's Dart, two weeks ago and fell madly in love with it. Why? Take a fantasy epic, a la Robert Jordan or Terry Goodkind type of book, the ones that come with their own map at the start (ye spawns of Tolkien) and have it written by a woman. XD Yep, no big, burly man wielding a sword(or other bladed phallic symbol) for your hero here. Instead, have a crazy, uke girl with no weapon but her brains and beauty and a very interesting... sexuality. Add a chock-ful of Bishoujos and Bishounens. Make everyone gloriously Bi. Make the principal power players women. I ended up finishing it in the space of 8 hours (and that's because, if I enjoy smething, I read slower) over which I managed to study for an exam. But damn happy.
I'm gonna buy an entire set of this when I save enough money.
