Media Roll Call
Oct. 29th, 2012 12:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mindsplinters43) Creole Folktales by Patrick Chamoiseau - Not NOLA Creole, mind you. These are folktales interpreted and retold from the author's childhood in Martinique. Another rare and delicious find from Half Price Books. The stories are eloquent and picturesque and revealing as all the best folk and fairy tales are.
44) Social Life in Old New Orleans by Eliza Ripley - This one took me a bit to get through, mostly because it was written by a non-writer around about 1912. There's precious little logical flow and it's written more in a conversation style, following the wanderings of an elderly lady's mind as she retells her child and young adulthood. For all that, it's still interesting and the details and unfiltered lens a change of pace. And I do mean unfiltered - some of the word choices were made long before the concept of PC or even equality settled into the preferred norm.
8 books away from my 52 for the year. This is GOOD because next month is Nano and Yuletide and RTH Secret Santa and Anime USA and part-time at the Moravian Bookshop and...
I'm home, btw, because my office actually, unbelievably closed today due to the threat of Sandy. Everyone in the path of this bitchy lady... Please be careful! I love you all.
44) Social Life in Old New Orleans by Eliza Ripley - This one took me a bit to get through, mostly because it was written by a non-writer around about 1912. There's precious little logical flow and it's written more in a conversation style, following the wanderings of an elderly lady's mind as she retells her child and young adulthood. For all that, it's still interesting and the details and unfiltered lens a change of pace. And I do mean unfiltered - some of the word choices were made long before the concept of PC or even equality settled into the preferred norm.
8 books away from my 52 for the year. This is GOOD because next month is Nano and Yuletide and RTH Secret Santa and Anime USA and part-time at the Moravian Bookshop and...
I'm home, btw, because my office actually, unbelievably closed today due to the threat of Sandy. Everyone in the path of this bitchy lady... Please be careful! I love you all.
