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Mar. 26th, 2010 02:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogOf course, after we began the process of moving and I brought the first load of my grandparents' records out to them, I found a TEAC digitizing turntable that plays 33s, 45s, and 78s at the Goodwill in Chicago. I didn't buy it.
I'm taking more records out to my grandparents' house tonight. Maybe I can fit the rest of them if I fill the back seat and trunk entirely. They won't be there, but my aunt and uncle will. After that? I dunno. Maybe I'll work on organizing more stuff.
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sabrinageek posted a quote from a book in Facebook. Looking that book up lead me to a series of links through other books and I just added five more books to my to read list. Once I finish up Working, I'll look for them at the library. I don't know why I haven't used the library for the past eight or ten years. It's wonderful! To read, I have:
High Anxieties - Janet Farrell Brodie and Marc Redfield
The Slave Next Door - Kevin Bales and Ron Soodalter (No, it's not a BDSM book!)
Dispoable People - Kevin Bales
Righteous Dopefiend - Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg (This looks particularly interesting to me; I want to know more about the homeless.)
Not Fit for Our Society - Peter Schrag
Speaking of reading things, I've read three of the books I was lent earlier. Predictably, I loved the LeGuin book, A Wizard of Earthsea. In fact, when I told my mother how much I liked it, she lent me her boxed set of The Earthsea Triology for me to read. This was in my house the whole time I was growing up and I never read it? Craziness!
I also read Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle. I liked it, and the Japanese cultural elements were really interesting to me, but it revolves around being an alternate post World War II United States, and I don't think I know enough about that history and those times to fully appreciate it. But I liked it.
Third of the borrowed books was The Three of Swords, a collection of the Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser stories by Fritz Leiber.
What can I say about them? I was a little put off from the start by the introduction, which reads, if I may paraphrase, 'These two characters are the best swordsmen who ever lived everywhere in any world or universe or reality you can possibly ever imagine OMG they will totally OWNZZORZ you so don't even think about it LOL!!!11oneone'
The content is swash-buckling, medieval, sword-swinging barbarian high fantasy, but even giving it slack for that it's too sexist for me. This is an arguable point, and I still like the Lovecraft story with the protagonist who named his cat "Nigger-man". I won't hold it against you if you like Leiber. But trying to wade through the cast of women I found who are either evil, powerful witches who use ice magic (sterotyping much?) or powerless bits of decor for the heroes (who are more than ready to tell them to shut the hell up if they happen to voice any stray independent thought) just didn't work for me. I didn't read all of it; maybe there's better in there somewhere. But that's ok. I gave it a shot and I think I'll let it go. For what it's worth, my dad said he could never get through Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser either.
I'm taking more records out to my grandparents' house tonight. Maybe I can fit the rest of them if I fill the back seat and trunk entirely. They won't be there, but my aunt and uncle will. After that? I dunno. Maybe I'll work on organizing more stuff.
It's funny;
sabrinageek posted a quote from a book in Facebook. Looking that book up lead me to a series of links through other books and I just added five more books to my to read list. Once I finish up Working, I'll look for them at the library. I don't know why I haven't used the library for the past eight or ten years. It's wonderful! To read, I have:High Anxieties - Janet Farrell Brodie and Marc Redfield
The Slave Next Door - Kevin Bales and Ron Soodalter (No, it's not a BDSM book!)
Dispoable People - Kevin Bales
Righteous Dopefiend - Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg (This looks particularly interesting to me; I want to know more about the homeless.)
Not Fit for Our Society - Peter Schrag
Speaking of reading things, I've read three of the books I was lent earlier. Predictably, I loved the LeGuin book, A Wizard of Earthsea. In fact, when I told my mother how much I liked it, she lent me her boxed set of The Earthsea Triology for me to read. This was in my house the whole time I was growing up and I never read it? Craziness!
I also read Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle. I liked it, and the Japanese cultural elements were really interesting to me, but it revolves around being an alternate post World War II United States, and I don't think I know enough about that history and those times to fully appreciate it. But I liked it.
Third of the borrowed books was The Three of Swords, a collection of the Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser stories by Fritz Leiber.
What can I say about them? I was a little put off from the start by the introduction, which reads, if I may paraphrase, 'These two characters are the best swordsmen who ever lived everywhere in any world or universe or reality you can possibly ever imagine OMG they will totally OWNZZORZ you so don't even think about it LOL!!!11oneone'
The content is swash-buckling, medieval, sword-swinging barbarian high fantasy, but even giving it slack for that it's too sexist for me. This is an arguable point, and I still like the Lovecraft story with the protagonist who named his cat "Nigger-man". I won't hold it against you if you like Leiber. But trying to wade through the cast of women I found who are either evil, powerful witches who use ice magic (sterotyping much?) or powerless bits of decor for the heroes (who are more than ready to tell them to shut the hell up if they happen to voice any stray independent thought) just didn't work for me. I didn't read all of it; maybe there's better in there somewhere. But that's ok. I gave it a shot and I think I'll let it go. For what it's worth, my dad said he could never get through Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser either.
