Yeah, I remember the rule. I remember the exception to the rule. It turns out Animal Farm is exactly what you get when you make rules that you know you want to break. I started jonesing so hard for The Secret History, and when I saw it at a book sale last week, I was [...]
Archive for July, 2010
Review: Angels of Albion, Jane Robinson
Posted in 2 Stars, Picked up randomly, tagged Angels of Albion, history, I still want to read Bluestockings though, Jane Robinson, this has caused me to reconsider the potency of ironic asides to assure people that you are taking the things you are quoting with a pinch of salt, when I am repeating a story I do not necessarily believe I say lots of ironic asides too on July 27, 2010 | 9 Comments »
The university library here doesn’t have Bluestockings. I know, right? It’s this massive fancy university library, and yet somehow it allows other patrons to check out The Thirties when I really wanted me to have it, and besides that it doesn’t have Jane Robinson’s Bluestockings. I was all excited to read about the first women [...]
Why I am constantly getting soaked on my way home from work
Posted in Misc., tagged 40% of the sky's full capacity for rain would actually be kind of a lot, I wish I were the boss of the weather, I wish it would rain right now and cool me off, it has been so hot every weekend this summer that I'm wondering if it's the weather people causing it to get revenge on me for writing mean imaginary notes to them, my smart math friend tried to explain why probability was true to me one time and I ignored her on July 25, 2010 | 33 Comments »
It’s because I believe in percentages, not in probability. I took against probability on one of our family vacations to Maine, when we stopped in Washington D.C. on the way there to visit some friends. The newspaper was running an article, I remember, that said that one in ten black men in Washington D.C. had [...]
The heat is melting my brain
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged dumb, dumb dumb dumb dumb, extremely dumb, I am dumb, very very dumb on July 24, 2010 | 10 Comments »
And that is why I posted one of my Diana Wynne Jones posts instead of scheduling it. And that is why it’s presumably showing up in your Google Reader. PAY IT NO MIND. It will post properly in August. I am stupid today. I have been out in the heat all morning and now it [...]
Review: The Purity Myth, Jessica Valenti
Posted in 2 Stars, Heard about from the internets, tagged "interlocutor" always reminds me of "automaton" and "automaton" sounds funny and makes me laugh heeheehee, "reductive" is a nice word, articles about "training" your significant other give me headaches, Clare from The Time Traveler's Wife went out with guys to prove that she was not gay also, I love scheduling reviews in advance of their being properly posted, Jessica Valenti, so is "interlocutor" which I used in the first draft of this post but I eventually deleted the sentence it was in, The Purity Myth, Women Unbound Challenge on July 19, 2010 | 43 Comments »
This summer has been one long lesson in disagreeing with people I agree with. As a liberal girl growing up in Louisiana, I have been far more accustomed to disagreeing with people I disagree with, but here in this liberal university town, I am surrounded by a whole bunch of people who agree with me. [...]
Review: Wartime, Britain 1939-1945, Juliet Gardiner
Posted in 5 Stars, Heard about from the internets on July 17, 2010 | 23 Comments »
I love the idea of social histories, but they rarely live up to what I expect from them. Until now. Juliet Gardiner is the perfect social historian. Wartime, a social history of Britain during World War II, is massively huge, which is part of the reason it took me so long to read. The other [...]
Review: The Latin Letters of C. S. Lewis, ed. and trans. Martin Moynihan
Posted in 3 Stars, Picked up randomly, tagged C. S. Lewis, Don Giovanni Calabria, if this were the Renaissance (and I were smarter than I really am) I'd be able to write Latin letters to everyone and they'd understand, it's okay if my library has this book because Lewis has two initials and a last name, Latin is fun, letters, Martin Moynihan, The Latin Letters of C. S. Lewis on July 15, 2010 | 26 Comments »
May I tell you a cute story? It’s very cute, and I can’t proceed with this review until I tell you the cute story, so if you are not in the mood for a sweet story, you should depart precipitously. Once upon a time there was an Italian priest called Don Giovanni Calabria who read [...]
Gender bias
Posted in Misc., tagged feminism (and not), gender bias, I never got the feeling Sylvia Plath was unduly interested in her female friends anyway, Latin is fun, must be nice to be a guy and feel this included all the time on July 11, 2010 | 68 Comments »
You know how sometimes you have really strong reactions to things that you never thought you cared that much about? Like this one time I was reading through course descriptions at various universities to see what their course-books were (I was craving nonfiction, and this is before I discovered book blogs), and I saw this [...]
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