Quickie between classes.
Sep. 29th, 2006 11:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lenora_roseI don't know what to say about Mike Ford's passing, but I can't - quite - leave it unacknowledged. I figured the first thing to do is put the Dragon Waiting next on my queue to read, since it's on the shelf of books I own but haven't. But I don't know when I'll ahve a chance to read fiction,a s the essay reading has kicked in.
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So I need to post about three reviews (The Billy Bragg concert![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
forodwaith invited me to Tuesday, Blood and Iron so matociquala can link to it and make another joke about stalkery writer behaviour (As if I don't give her enough fangirly behaviour right back) and some comments on Lust Over Pendle vs. HP& the Half Blood Prince as reading experiences. (For the last of those, a taste: I take back one aspect of the fanfic's characterization. Draco is appropriately a sneaky bastard much of the time, but Hall has him convert to "Muggles=Okay (at least some of them)", too easily. But I really like the way Harry's own habit of leaping to conclusions until Hermoine points out the logical gaps is played - where in The Half Blood Prince he goes off even more wildly and is Right Right Right abnout everything and how dare they doubt him because he isn't being logical {Recalling, of course, that in the first book they're all Wrong, and that Rowling used to know how to do this}.)
Anyhow, that's not what I meant to talk about.
This particular school year is even more designed for the books I'm planning to write soon than intended. Okay, okay, the math isn't, but math is a good thing to refresh my mind in anyway.
The Medieval World is the next-least useful course writing-wise, but since quasi-medieval is such a default setting for so many books, it's somewhat helpful in reading my genre, and who knows, I may try to do something Byzantine or the like yet. 16th Century Literature has such an emphasis on court life and roundabout ways of saying what you mean it *has* to be good for the Serpent Prince - especially as the essay topic I'm working on requires me to read even more about how court life influences everything, especially poetry and honesty.
The Biology class, being all about the environment, is of astonishing help with Labyrinth, never mind just how much it matters in real life, since that's what Heather does as a day job when she's not on mystical adventures.
The one thing I'm missing is apparantly something for about the time in which i was born, give or take a bit. I have a character who hasn't seen the world since aroudn the days of the Iranian Hostage Crisis. I have some of the historic details and a bit of the general mood. Briefly, I poked at Wikipedia regarding 1979, and I didn't get the things I need most. I have yet to Google or do other online poking about for the things I need -- at least facts wise, current albums, current events, technology or lack thereof. Facts are easy.
But I'd like to request some book suggestions for the mood and feel of the culture(s) of the time -- particularly as seen through the eyes of a pair of 20 year old male presumed hetero college students who aren't into the disco craze -- or at least, not heavy into (I do wonder if Thomas or his fiancee wouldn't own a disc or two.)
Help?
Gotta go, or be late to Bio.
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So I need to post about three reviews (The Billy Bragg concert
forodwaith invited me to Tuesday, Blood and Iron so matociquala can link to it and make another joke about stalkery writer behaviour (As if I don't give her enough fangirly behaviour right back) and some comments on Lust Over Pendle vs. HP& the Half Blood Prince as reading experiences. (For the last of those, a taste: I take back one aspect of the fanfic's characterization. Draco is appropriately a sneaky bastard much of the time, but Hall has him convert to "Muggles=Okay (at least some of them)", too easily. But I really like the way Harry's own habit of leaping to conclusions until Hermoine points out the logical gaps is played - where in The Half Blood Prince he goes off even more wildly and is Right Right Right abnout everything and how dare they doubt him because he isn't being logical {Recalling, of course, that in the first book they're all Wrong, and that Rowling used to know how to do this}.)Anyhow, that's not what I meant to talk about.
This particular school year is even more designed for the books I'm planning to write soon than intended. Okay, okay, the math isn't, but math is a good thing to refresh my mind in anyway.
The Medieval World is the next-least useful course writing-wise, but since quasi-medieval is such a default setting for so many books, it's somewhat helpful in reading my genre, and who knows, I may try to do something Byzantine or the like yet. 16th Century Literature has such an emphasis on court life and roundabout ways of saying what you mean it *has* to be good for the Serpent Prince - especially as the essay topic I'm working on requires me to read even more about how court life influences everything, especially poetry and honesty.
The Biology class, being all about the environment, is of astonishing help with Labyrinth, never mind just how much it matters in real life, since that's what Heather does as a day job when she's not on mystical adventures.
The one thing I'm missing is apparantly something for about the time in which i was born, give or take a bit. I have a character who hasn't seen the world since aroudn the days of the Iranian Hostage Crisis. I have some of the historic details and a bit of the general mood. Briefly, I poked at Wikipedia regarding 1979, and I didn't get the things I need most. I have yet to Google or do other online poking about for the things I need -- at least facts wise, current albums, current events, technology or lack thereof. Facts are easy.
But I'd like to request some book suggestions for the mood and feel of the culture(s) of the time -- particularly as seen through the eyes of a pair of 20 year old male presumed hetero college students who aren't into the disco craze -- or at least, not heavy into (I do wonder if Thomas or his fiancee wouldn't own a disc or two.)
Help?
Gotta go, or be late to Bio.
