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The Sublime Object of Ideology by Slavoj Žižek

I've not yet read any Zizek.

Henry Fielding - Tom Jones

One of the greatest books in all of English literature, in my opinion.

Lesley Kara: The runour

2/3 in, and it's good.





listening to Michael Grant's Gone.

would've liked a whole lot better if it didn't mention Astrid's hair color all the time (but no one else's was overly mentioned and lots not even mentioned at all) how just everyone thought she was soooo pretty

a pity, the story's good, but that's annoying

The Lovecraft Compendium, by H.P. Lovecraft.

Five of Lovecraft's short stories that are the center pieces for his Cthulhu Mythos.

Parallel Play - Growing Up With Undiagnosed Asperger's by Tim Page, a Pulitzer prize winner.

Long overdue... Finally started the Lord of the Rings Trilogy.

I was so obsessed with the movies when I was around 4 or 5 years old, I wore out a couple dvd sets. It's hard to believe I've never read the books considering my obsession with books in general AND the movies.

It's different, but I am really enjoying them. More than I even thought I would. I liked the Tom Bombadil arc and how much more detail there is in the beginning, a lot of things make so much more sense now that I felt seemed janky in the movies.

I am also reading a book called Nervous Laughter by Earl Emerson. It's the third in a series of novels about a Seattle private investigator named Thomas Black. They are written in the style of Raymond Chandler I believe. I like the author's detailed knowledge of Seattle and the surrounding areas.

Yeah, I definitely intend on going back. I enjoy taking the classes. I don't even really care about a degree. I just like lectures.

I've returned to The Woodlanders (Thomas Hardy, 1887) which I had set aside briefly.

I'm also reading The Brontës: A Life in Letters, Third Edition. (Ed. Juliet Barker, 2016).

253 by Geoff Ryman.
I was dubious when I started this due to the non-narrative, rule-bound writing, and sheer number of characters. There are 253 words about each of the 252 passengers on a London tube train, plus the driver. Each person is described according to a strict formula; their appearance, a short biography, and their thoughts at a certain point in the journey. You know from the outset that the train is going to crash. It was an internet book originally, so I'm not sure how much reading it in print might change the experience, but it works much better than I anticipated, and sucked me in quite easily.

There are some really clever and quite poignant plays on how the passengers (mis)read each other's appearance and behaviour once it becomes clearer which passengers are watching which other ones (now I wonder why that might appeal to me! ). I found the original internet version too (here), so I might have a look at that once I've finished the book. Not the most world-changing book in the world, for sure; but it's a nice little jaunt into something a bit unusual, and I think short enough that the formulaic structure won't get too get tiresome.