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So um, who's read The Dispossessed and wants to geek out about it lit nerd style? Extra bonus points if you find a copy of Samuel R. Delany's Jewel-Hinged Jaw and read his essay about The Dispossessed first. Right now I'm at the stage where I'm taking notes on the novel and getting myself psyched up to read the essay before it tells me I'm all wrong and a grotesquely ugly freak, so you've got time to get your reading on and catch up with me, especially if you've already read The Dispossessed, which I hadn't until earlier this month because I'm defective or something.

I always read Alice Walker too quickly. This time it's Anything We Love Can Be Saved (and big thanks again to somechicksings for the recommendation) and now that I've articulated this revelation it's got me wondering what else I've read too quickly and need to reread. The Left Hand of Darkness leaps to mind as a book I felt like I was missing the point of even as I read it (but did that make me go back and reread it? no.) I should write Ms. Walker fan mail based solely on just this one teeny tiny thing I've learned about myself from reading her work, but of course her awesomeness is such that it'll render me inarticulate if I ever do try to put pen to paper addressed to her. Um. I like this book I'm reading, yes I do.

Yep, I'm a dork and I can't help taking notes on stuff that interests me. (I submit, as further evidence, Exhibit B: The Langoliers, based on a recent rereading of that Stephen King novella (Four Past Midnight was just sitting there in the laundry room, ripe for the borrowing!)

Anyway, I'll just put these behind cut tags, since they're mostly for my own reference.

Oh, and while I'm being amused by the New York Times, here's a link I could not resist checking out: Big Hot Blurry Painterly Nudes! (Yes, that's the actual title of the article.)