I ran across this community on LJ and I figured, Hey, I should make this one of my goals. So, one of my goals for 2007 is to read 50 books. Books that I have read: {edit: July: I forgot to keep track. T__T I shall start now.] Abelove, Joan Saying It Out LoudAtwater-Rhodes, Amelia Wolfcry Aveni,...
Last week I started reading 'Steering the Craft' by Ursula K. Le Guin, which is basically a book of thoughts and exercises for aspiring writers. Then I remembered how much I loath writing exercises. Write something without punctuation, write something that's one long sentence, write something with...
The above (and below) are poems read aloud by Ursula K. Leguin. I think her ideas of mortality and the 'afterlife' (or lack thereof?) are really interesting. In the Earthsea Cycle, which spends a significant amount of time discussing the afterlife, we get the sense of it being similar to a sort of...
Top Five Books -- this is actually pretty easy. We were just comparing lists at work on this very topic. The Killer Angels: Michael Shaara I first had to read this book in college (under duress naturally -- actually the night before a history final...) but ended up really enjoying it. A few years...
The Dispossessed by Ursula K Le Guin - since I've been a fan of Le Guin for almost as long as I can remember, my copy isn't the one pictured here but a mid-1970's reprint. It's been a while, though, since I read any of my collection of her works, so I thought I'd get on with that this year... expect...
Ok, so I read the book version of this, and I'm only a few minutes into the movie, but I already love it. It doesn't stick to the book chronologically, but I like how they mixed it up. The characters are just like I imagined them to be...it is possible to love science fiction and Jane Austen. There...
Okay, this film has to have special mention. I haven't yet seen it, as it only comes out on DVD on Monday (I already have it on order, that is how important a film it is.) it is from the Japanese animation studio Studio Ghibli, and is extra special as it is not only just a new directork, but that...
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