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Aug. 6th, 2009 01:41 pmThings:
- We got a new book in this morning entitled How Not to Die. I'm sure that it's a perfectly good book and all but really, I can't tell you how much that title disturbs me. Have centuries of stories about how sometimes dead is better taught us nothing? (Okay, alternately, it makes me giggle. Because I'll admit that the first thing I thought was, "Well, just don't let your cells get bored.")
- The book group apparently just read The Yellow Wallpaper and people keep talking to me about it. It's odd because I think that most of them are coming at the story from a very different angle than I am. Because they are all "interesting work of early feminist literature!" and man, I first read that story in collection of classic horror short stories that I bought from a Scholastic bookorder in 6th grade*. And of course, the story is both but which one you think of first really does influence the way the discussion goes.
- I know that I haven't done a Picture Book You Should Read post yet. I was hanging out with the Megan last night and it slipped my mind. Should happen this evening.
*And I really wish I could find a picture of the cover because it was terrifying. There was this freaky blue and purple clown/jack-in-the-box person leering up at you from under the bed and y'know, that book was also the first time I read The Horla and I'm pretty sure that that's what I've always sort of imagined the Horla looked like, if you could see it. The Horla is one of the few horror stories that has ever actually kept me up nights, by the way.**
**Though, admittedly, this is probably less because I am badass and more because I have become smart enough not to read horror stories at bedtime. I also don't read House of Leaves in my bedroom or certain Lovecraft stories (mostly the ones that mention fungus) while I'm eating. Because some things are just not worth it.
- We got a new book in this morning entitled How Not to Die. I'm sure that it's a perfectly good book and all but really, I can't tell you how much that title disturbs me. Have centuries of stories about how sometimes dead is better taught us nothing? (Okay, alternately, it makes me giggle. Because I'll admit that the first thing I thought was, "Well, just don't let your cells get bored.")
- The book group apparently just read The Yellow Wallpaper and people keep talking to me about it. It's odd because I think that most of them are coming at the story from a very different angle than I am. Because they are all "interesting work of early feminist literature!" and man, I first read that story in collection of classic horror short stories that I bought from a Scholastic bookorder in 6th grade*. And of course, the story is both but which one you think of first really does influence the way the discussion goes.
- I know that I haven't done a Picture Book You Should Read post yet. I was hanging out with the Megan last night and it slipped my mind. Should happen this evening.
*And I really wish I could find a picture of the cover because it was terrifying. There was this freaky blue and purple clown/jack-in-the-box person leering up at you from under the bed and y'know, that book was also the first time I read The Horla and I'm pretty sure that that's what I've always sort of imagined the Horla looked like, if you could see it. The Horla is one of the few horror stories that has ever actually kept me up nights, by the way.**
**Though, admittedly, this is probably less because I am badass and more because I have become smart enough not to read horror stories at bedtime. I also don't read House of Leaves in my bedroom or certain Lovecraft stories (mostly the ones that mention fungus) while I'm eating. Because some things are just not worth it.
