proof of life post

[lunabee34]

1.

Paterson by William Carlos Williams

My rating: 1 of 5 stars


You know, WCW could have just written "No ideas but in things" on a post-it note and saved me the tedium of reading this dreck. From the gender essentialist "ladies are nature and dudes are the city" to the bizarre and randomly inserted racism (why are we suddenly in Africa examining women sitting on a log, William?), I was done with this poem in Book I. The only parts of this poem I enjoyed are the excerpts of letters people wrote WCW and the excerpts of news reports from the 18th and 19th centuries that are intercut into the narrative. So, the parts WCW didn't write.

My days of being fed up with white, 20th-century, male poets sure are coming to a middle. LOL



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Living the Château Dream by Dick Strawbridge

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


Reading this with Fiona was a delight. I love getting a behind the scenes look at events from the show and spending more time with the family from Escape from the Chateau.



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2. I belong to a reading group sponsored by the Victorian Popular Fiction Association called the Third Sex Reading Group; it reads books from the long 19th century about LGBTQA+ issues. I attended for the first time this September, and it was a fantastic experience. One of the editors of this book, Margaret Breen, participated in the session and talked about her experience tracking down biographical details of Duc and the process of translating the work.

Are They Women?: A Novel Concerning the Third Sex by Aimée Duc

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


As a novel, this is pretty terrible. Not much plot to speak of. Everyone just sits around and pontificates about the nature of women and same-sex attraction. However, as a window into 19th-century arguments about gender, marriage, and sexuality, it is invaluable and utterly fascinating.



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3. Go read Romancing the Beast: Embracing Monstrousness in Romantic SFF by Victoria Janssen, an excellent essay about writing romance into speculative fiction.

4. Go read I've seen your face before, my friend, but I don't know if you know who I am by HMSLusitania
Stranger Things
26952 words
Time travel fix-it fic
Eddie/Steve

Comments

[amejisuto]

Do you have to know what Stranger Things is about to read that story? Because I'm a sucker for time travel/fix-its but I'm like, the last person in the world that doesn't have Netflix and hasn't seen Stranger Things.

[havocthecat]

I have Netflix and I still haven't seen Stranger Things so it's not just you! Thank God it's not just me.

[amejisuto]

Nope, not just you!

[shaddyr]

You aren't the only ones. I only just watched the first couple seasons of Stanger Things with my eldest this summer. Still haven't got to the last one.

[lunabee34]

Unfortunately, yes. I don't think it would make any sense or have any emotional resonance otherwise. :(

[amejisuto]

Darn it!

[gloss]

I love the variety of your reads.💜

[lunabee34]

<3

I am eclectic. Or something. LOL

[zulu]

Hi! That's it, that's the comment. :)

[lunabee34]

Heeee.

Hi back.

[minoanmiss]

*reads about you reading*

[lunabee34]

*reads about you reading about me reading*

[oracne]

Hey, thanks for the rec of my post! The Duc does sound interesting.

[lunabee34]

I really enjoyed it; I especially enjoyed the end when you talk about ways to subvert the original trope.

[shaddyr]

Those last two sound promising - once I finish watching Stanger Things with the eldest, I'll have to give it a read.

[lunabee34]

I hope you enjoy!