Cracking Spines
Apr. 30th, 2023 06:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pshaw_ravenThe weather's been interesting lately. We've had several nasty storm cells go past us, including one that spit hail. We got pea-sized hail but a town southeast of us got the golf ball sized stuff. We've had more tornado watches than I can remember. One night, Fox turned off our weather alert radio so we could sleep, because we kept getting so many notices, and then this morning at 5, we got another, so that was my "sleep" done for the night.
I was starting to sleep a little better but I'm now back to my usual crappy sleep. Since it doesn't seem to matter what I do or don't do, I'm just going to get bad sleep. Yay.
I finished reading all three of Diane Setterfield's novels: The Thirteenth Tale, Once Upon a River, and Bellman & Black. I thought I saw something saying she's working on a new one, so that'll be worth keeping an eye out for. I haven't put them in a donation bin yet because I'm considering re-reading them at some point. The stories can be pretty dense once you get into them.
I then picked up a copy of The Dog of the South by Charles Portis to take on our trip, so I haven't started it just yet. But I did read True Grit, which was unsurprisingly much better than the movie. Though the movie is excellent, too. Portis has an odd sense of humor, which I appreciate because my sense of humor is also odd. He recently got the Library of America treatment, and Overlook Press puts out individual copies of his works that you can pick up on bookshop.org.
Other than that, my only other major read right now is wading through Sexual Personae which keep sending me to look up various things, from philosophers to sculptures. I'm still on her discussion of the Apollonian and Dionysian, which would be a pretty tired subject, except that she points out that Dionysian frenzies aren't simply about pleasure and partying, but should rightly involve dismembering animals and people in a lust and blood fueled intertwining sex and violence. She's citing Walter Otto's The Homeric Gods a good bit, which I read last year. I guess I'm going to have to find more English translations of his work, too.
I'm on probably about a month since I gave myself a buzz cut, and I'm still happy with it. I still might let some grow out when the weather cools off this fall. Happily no one else seems to care. As the Red Queen told Alice, it's people minding their own business that makes the world go 'round. LOL
I was starting to sleep a little better but I'm now back to my usual crappy sleep. Since it doesn't seem to matter what I do or don't do, I'm just going to get bad sleep. Yay.
I finished reading all three of Diane Setterfield's novels: The Thirteenth Tale, Once Upon a River, and Bellman & Black. I thought I saw something saying she's working on a new one, so that'll be worth keeping an eye out for. I haven't put them in a donation bin yet because I'm considering re-reading them at some point. The stories can be pretty dense once you get into them.
I then picked up a copy of The Dog of the South by Charles Portis to take on our trip, so I haven't started it just yet. But I did read True Grit, which was unsurprisingly much better than the movie. Though the movie is excellent, too. Portis has an odd sense of humor, which I appreciate because my sense of humor is also odd. He recently got the Library of America treatment, and Overlook Press puts out individual copies of his works that you can pick up on bookshop.org.
Other than that, my only other major read right now is wading through Sexual Personae which keep sending me to look up various things, from philosophers to sculptures. I'm still on her discussion of the Apollonian and Dionysian, which would be a pretty tired subject, except that she points out that Dionysian frenzies aren't simply about pleasure and partying, but should rightly involve dismembering animals and people in a lust and blood fueled intertwining sex and violence. She's citing Walter Otto's The Homeric Gods a good bit, which I read last year. I guess I'm going to have to find more English translations of his work, too.
I'm on probably about a month since I gave myself a buzz cut, and I'm still happy with it. I still might let some grow out when the weather cools off this fall. Happily no one else seems to care. As the Red Queen told Alice, it's people minding their own business that makes the world go 'round. LOL
