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The theory is that I'm reading to the moon and one page = 1 kilometer. You can hit the 'reading to the moon' tag to see past entries.
This update includes 15 books or 4568 pages.
On my graphic, that looks like this:
Heimito von Doderer - The Waterfalls of Slunj. Fiction. I love it when there's a narrator with a distinct voice, and this one is certainly that. He also references by page number the page number on which he lied to you at a larger point. Fun times.
Mercedes Lackey - Magic's Pawn. Fantasy. The first half of this book semi-bored me, then it suddenly got loads more interesting.
Brian Katcher - Almost Perfect. Young Adult. It's hard to talk about this book without spoiling the ending, but I'll say that Katcher makes great effort to show what makes a transgendered girl feel accepted, and what doesn't. Painful.
Elie Wiesel - Night. Memoir. Sometimes there are books you need to read. And sometimes you need to reread them five years later, and discuss them in class.
Dale Peck - Sprout: or My Salad Days, When I was Green in Judgment*. Young Adult. Sprout is absolutely hilarious. Also, it's kind of weird to read a book this modern.
Tony Kushner - Homebody/Kabul. Play. So good. Made me think, as well it should have.
Stephen Graham Jones - The Bird is Gone: A Manifesto. Future Fiction(/Murder Mystery). I'm not entirely sure what's going on in this book, but I believe the background is that at some point the US government decides on the Conservation Act, which kind of gives the Dakotas back to the Indians/Native Americans. There are all sorts of implications to this, one of the main being how do they distinguish people as Indian? The answer turns out to be a strain of pink eye which only affects the Indians (it's not really broken down any more than that). There are also papers, and you have to be able to say which tribe is yours and also you can't possess artifacts from any of the other tribes. There's lots more going on as well, like the idea of anthropoligists lurking in the background with binoculars.
Alex Sanchez - Rainbow High. Young Adult. I think I've taken all the books about high schoolers I can read for a while, because I kept getting annoyed with the characters, even when it wasn't their fault.
Pamela Hayes - The Other Woman: a Story About Three Transsexuals. Fiction. I thought it was very interesting, and well worth reading.
Tony Kushner - Death & Taxes: Hydriotaphia & Other Plays. Plays. Pretty cool. My favorite was probably the last, if just because there are sixteen male characters and seven female and if performed onstage the playwright suggests one actor depict them all (as they never interact with each other).
Various - How Beautiful the Ordinary: Twelve Stories of Identity. Short Stories/Young Adult. Interesting. Very different styles among the stories.
Frank McCourt - Angela's Ashes. Memoir. This book makes me want to find small children and hug them.
Tim O'Brien - The Things They Carried. Memoir/Fiction. Interesting, though a reread so rather less interesting from the angle.
Mira Grant - Feed. Fiction. OMG. So much awesome. I mean seriously. So, yes, this is a book about zombies. It's also a book about politics. But even more than both of those, it's a book about blogging. It's also a book of PURE AWESOME.
Suzanne Brockmann - The Defiant Hero. Romance? Mmph. Parts of it were good and parts of it were quite dull.
Bold if I'd highly recommend them.
This update includes 15 books or 4568 pages.
On my graphic, that looks like this:
11284 / 384403
2.935%
2.935%
Heimito von Doderer - The Waterfalls of Slunj. Fiction. I love it when there's a narrator with a distinct voice, and this one is certainly that. He also references by page number the page number on which he lied to you at a larger point. Fun times.
Mercedes Lackey - Magic's Pawn. Fantasy. The first half of this book semi-bored me, then it suddenly got loads more interesting.
Brian Katcher - Almost Perfect. Young Adult. It's hard to talk about this book without spoiling the ending, but I'll say that Katcher makes great effort to show what makes a transgendered girl feel accepted, and what doesn't. Painful.
Elie Wiesel - Night. Memoir. Sometimes there are books you need to read. And sometimes you need to reread them five years later, and discuss them in class.
Dale Peck - Sprout: or My Salad Days, When I was Green in Judgment*. Young Adult. Sprout is absolutely hilarious. Also, it's kind of weird to read a book this modern.
Tony Kushner - Homebody/Kabul. Play. So good. Made me think, as well it should have.
Stephen Graham Jones - The Bird is Gone: A Manifesto. Future Fiction(/Murder Mystery). I'm not entirely sure what's going on in this book, but I believe the background is that at some point the US government decides on the Conservation Act, which kind of gives the Dakotas back to the Indians/Native Americans. There are all sorts of implications to this, one of the main being how do they distinguish people as Indian? The answer turns out to be a strain of pink eye which only affects the Indians (it's not really broken down any more than that). There are also papers, and you have to be able to say which tribe is yours and also you can't possess artifacts from any of the other tribes. There's lots more going on as well, like the idea of anthropoligists lurking in the background with binoculars.
Alex Sanchez - Rainbow High. Young Adult. I think I've taken all the books about high schoolers I can read for a while, because I kept getting annoyed with the characters, even when it wasn't their fault.
Pamela Hayes - The Other Woman: a Story About Three Transsexuals. Fiction. I thought it was very interesting, and well worth reading.
Tony Kushner - Death & Taxes: Hydriotaphia & Other Plays. Plays. Pretty cool. My favorite was probably the last, if just because there are sixteen male characters and seven female and if performed onstage the playwright suggests one actor depict them all (as they never interact with each other).
Various - How Beautiful the Ordinary: Twelve Stories of Identity. Short Stories/Young Adult. Interesting. Very different styles among the stories.
Frank McCourt - Angela's Ashes. Memoir. This book makes me want to find small children and hug them.
Tim O'Brien - The Things They Carried. Memoir/Fiction. Interesting, though a reread so rather less interesting from the angle.
Mira Grant - Feed. Fiction. OMG. So much awesome. I mean seriously. So, yes, this is a book about zombies. It's also a book about politics. But even more than both of those, it's a book about blogging. It's also a book of PURE AWESOME.
Suzanne Brockmann - The Defiant Hero. Romance? Mmph. Parts of it were good and parts of it were quite dull.
Bold if I'd highly recommend them.
Wsb Vibes Friday Nite
Again @ Chris @Labelfucker Vibes , ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
wsb, the only place in Moscow w/ #NYC style party format #housemusic n #hiphop tunes, @89 BPM, nice pipl, out of big gigs glam n bulls. Perhaps 2 play here house party scales sets. Will promote it to China & Taipei this year:) May's tonite:)
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Anjunabeats Worldwide 02 - 17 May
*****
Finest wicked remixed deep progressive trance by Above & Beyond sublabel soon - their bomb of 2010
Sunny Lax - Vanesse
Reeves - Call Of Loneliness (Mat Zo Remix)
Finest wicked remixed deep progressive trance by Above & Beyond sublabel soon - their bomb of 2010
Sunny Lax - Vanesse
Reeves - Call Of Loneliness (Mat Zo Remix)
Example - Kickstarts (Official Video) (Out 13th June 2010)
www.youtube.com/watch
Friday mainstream electro hop vibes