Bookage, again

[telophase]

Got rachelmanija's memoir All the Fishes Come Home to Roost from Amazon.com today (I had a Grand Plan to pre-order it from Borders and spike the sales a bit there, but then Mom phoned and said she was ordering a copy and would I like her to order a copy for me while she was at it, and ... well, the hell with her sales, free book XD)

And I, uh, just rocketed through it in two hours. Yes, rachelmanija, months and months of your toil, all finished in TWO HOURS! XD

It's a good thing that I read it that fast, actually - the faster I go, the more I'm engaged in it. I'll have to reread it to get more details - right now it's mostly a blur of bizarre people and horrific abuse. Er, for the, like, three people on my friendslist who don't know who rachelmanija is, this book is a memoir of her growing-up years on an ashram in India - her parents wigged out and moved to India when she was seven - and it's blackly funny, despite (and in some cases because of) the horrific bits. Go to the link and read more about it. :)

Random factlet - Steven Brust has just got hisself a Livejournal - skzbrust

And speaking of rachelmanija again, she recently posted an essay all about first lines in books and stories and how important they are, which is why I immediately thought of her when I picked up another of the books I checked out from the library and the first line was:

The woods were silent, other than the screaming.

And in other news, the History International channel is starting to run a British reality series about people trying to live as if they were in the Iron Age, in a re-created Iron Age settlement, and ... dude! I've been to that one! We went to it on a field trip in my Celtic World class when I was doing a semester abroad in Wales, at Trinity College in Carmarthen. Nifty!

Those are all the random things on my brain right now and I must GO TO SLEEP because I am TIRED.

Comments

[kate_nepveu]

_JS&MN_ is lovely and the Simon Prebble reading of it on Audible is, based on a half-hour's listen, also very nice, though the long footnotes would probably be tricky for the first time out loud.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Nice. I've enjoyed what I've read of it so far, but it's really hard going in those small chunks and I want to get more deeply involved.

I may have to get it from Audible once I've finished the dead-tree version.