Duck duck duck Booklog!

Oh man. Please remind me to NEVER AGAIN go so long without updating this. Bad Trin! No biscuit for me.

Weeks 26—30: 25 June—29 July

( 149. The Caves of Steel — Isaac Asimov )

I wish I'd read it when I was younger and less likely to be distracted by perviness.

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( 150. Alanna: The First Adventure — Tamora Pierce )

I may pick up the rest in the series if I can get the cranky librarians to stop giving me weird looks.

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( 151. The Ordinary Princess — M.M. Kaye )

Shut up, brain. Sometimes I am just cranky.

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( 152. Uncharted Territory — Connie Willis )

that one twist—I do feel like all the annoying stuff was worth wading through for that. I'm glad I did.

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( 153. All-Consuming Fire — Andy Lane )

I love both worlds so I enjoyed it.

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( 154. Michael Tolliver Lives — Armistead Maupin )

It's a step up from "All straight women are EVIL!", anyway.

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( 155. & 156. Go Jump in the Pool! & Beware the Fish! — Gordon Korman )

If you want to *wink* find out more *wink* I recommend joining scrimmettes. *continues to be very subtle*

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( 157. An Invisible Sign of My Own — Aimee Bender )

Just...really not for me.

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( 158. Making History — Stephen Fry )

this was a romp in the best sense of the word, with a good dose of underlying scariness. Recommended.

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( 159. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — J.K. Rowling (ONLY VERY MINOR SPOILERS HEREIN — I TRIED VERY HARD TO KEEP MY DISCUSSION THEMATIC AND VAGUE) )

For those who are interested, there's some actually spoilery discussion in this post here. (And spoilery comments should probably be directed there, too, instead of here.)

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( 160. Rereadings — Ed. by Anne Fadiman )

All in all, this was an enjoyable collection, but unlike Fadiman's solo effort, the fantastic Ex Libris, one I'm glad I got from the library instead of purchasing; in other words, most likely not a book I will be rereading.

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( 161. & 165. Bimbos of the Death Sun & Zombies of the Gene Pool — Sharyn McCrumb )

So, I found these books both enjoyable and incredibly infuriating. I honestly can't make a recommendation about whether I think other people should read them or not.

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( 162. Literacy and Longing in L.A. — Jennifer Kaufman & Karen Mack )

Well-written and at times moving, but also somehow off. *peers at it*

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( 163. The Eight Doctors — Terrance Dicks )

*skips to Fitz books*

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( 164. On the Verge, or the Geography of Yearning — Eric Overmyer )

despite that fault (in myself) I enjoyed this. Which speaks very highly of it, I think.

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( 166. Twilight — Stephenie Meyer )

Angel at his most pathetic emo mopiness had more spine.

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( 167. Persepolis — Marjane Satrapi )

read this book. Personally, I will be hunting down the sequel.

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( 168. Complications — Atul Gawande )

If you're at all interested in medicine, or enjoy watching Scrubs or House or any of those shows, this is really well worth checking out.

Total Books: 168

The first step.

I hesitate to post about this, but I think it's important, so I'm going to. If you want to know the immediate context, liviapenn has a good collection of links about daily_deviant's decision to use and to continue to use even after it was brought to their attention that it is offensive the word "miscegenation" as a fic prompt. However, it's a much broader issue, one that goes beyond HP fandom, and SGA fandom, and fandom in general.

I was not on LJ much during the last big discussion of racism in fandom, specifically in SGA fandom; I was, for totally unrelated reasons, having a melodramatic emo period of not wanting to post or comment very much. However, I saw a bit of what went on, so I guess that's context for this post, too.

( Basically, what I want to say is a lot of things that I really do think people already know. )