binge reading

a real thirst for a good story

2.03.2005

Giant Bones by Peter S. Beagle-started 1-31-05; finished 2-2-05
Akira: Vol. 1 by Katsuhiro Otomo-started 2-2-05; finished 2-2-05
Changing Planes by Ursula K. LeGuin-started 2-3-05

made a little trip to the library yesterday. needed to get some reading material for this weekend since i'll be stuck at home.
Giant Bones was wonderful! i'll have to read The Innkeeper's Song now. i like collections of short stories. most of the stories here are in first person, with the exception of "Lal and Soukyan."
of the first person stories, my fav is the title tale, "Giant Bones," in which an impatient father is trying to tell the story of why the family grows tall to a child who's prone to interuptions and afraid of being the short one.
it's cute! the father constantly states that it's this mother's job to tell stories and he doesn't see how she does it every night. 8^)

Changing Planes is an amusing take on waiting at airports and interplanar travel.
i'm enjoying it so far.








currently reading:.
#Creative Mythology: The Masks of God, Book 4 by Joseph Campbell
#Across the Wall by Garth Nix
to read:.
*Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (thanks for this one, c!)
The Nine Emotional Lives of Cats, a Journey into the Feline Heart by Jefferey Moussaieff Masson
Eygptian Magic by E. A. Wallis Budge
The Library of Alexandria, Centre of Learning in the Ancient World edited by Roy MacLeod
Alexandria Rediscovered by Jean-Yves Empereur, translated by Margaret Maehler
Ghosts: Appearances of the Dead and Cultural Transformation by by R.C. Finucane
Libraries of the Ancient World by Lionel Casson
*Red Land, Black Land by Barbara Mertz

* denotes books that have been reread.
# denotes a series of books or a trilogy.
‡ denotes an electronic book

recommended reading:.
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin
Sabriel by Garth Nix

fav authors:.
Terry Pratchett
Neil Gaiman
William Gibson
Guy Gavriel Kay
Charles de Lint
Ursula K. LeGuin
more to come!

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