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Media Roll Call
Dec. 2nd, 2012 04:12 pm48) Dine Bahane: The Navajo Creation Story ed by Paul G Zolbrod - One of the reasons I love the randomly named Sellers Used Books shop up in Jim Thorpe is for treasures like this (and the fact that he recognizes me now and so gives me 15% off instead of the usual 10%). You find the most amazing, out of the way books there. Including something like this. It's very straight forward, not at all adorned or made "literary," and the stories are transcribed with the same cadence and repetition that an oral tradition would have. There are also copious notes in the back (which I mostly ignored because I wanted the rich mythology, yep)... And it was amazingly reasonable. Looove it.
49) Whose Body? by Dorothy L Sayers - I have FINALLY found and read the first Lord Peter mystery and, I have to admit, it's for the best that it wasn't the first one I read. I still enjoyed it deeply, though, but it read more like a first novel than I expected out of someone who seemed so polished as DLS. It also amused me to find that she spent more time on descriptors in this book more descriptions about what the various characters looked like. Also a less focused, isolated view point. In her other books, she tends to pick one and stick with it (usually following around Peter, naturally) but this one had sections clearly told from the shoulders of other characters. (The book with Miss Climpson's input is an outlier but it is necessary to do it in that manner.)
And I finished Nano. I can't say it's brilliant but I wrote and I wrote hard. I also managed to finish my RTH SeSa well in advance and read a bit throughout the month, too. And go to Anime USA as you do in November.
49) Whose Body? by Dorothy L Sayers - I have FINALLY found and read the first Lord Peter mystery and, I have to admit, it's for the best that it wasn't the first one I read. I still enjoyed it deeply, though, but it read more like a first novel than I expected out of someone who seemed so polished as DLS. It also amused me to find that she spent more time on descriptors in this book more descriptions about what the various characters looked like. Also a less focused, isolated view point. In her other books, she tends to pick one and stick with it (usually following around Peter, naturally) but this one had sections clearly told from the shoulders of other characters. (The book with Miss Climpson's input is an outlier but it is necessary to do it in that manner.)
And I finished Nano. I can't say it's brilliant but I wrote and I wrote hard. I also managed to finish my RTH SeSa well in advance and read a bit throughout the month, too. And go to Anime USA as you do in November.
