short version of reviews
Oct. 8th, 2007 04:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eorBooks I've finished recently:
62. Michael J. Tougias "There's a Porcupine in My Outhouse": Funny. The naturalist bits are fairly well interwoven so they don't come off too guidebook like. The self-discovery, self-enlightenment books are thankfully brief. Self-discovery is a wonderful thing, but best when it's kept to yourself.
63. Nicholson Baker "Vox": Exotic erotica for people who aren't very sexually creative. Wild for the mild. Got it for free, I think I paid the right price.
64. James W. Balano "The Log of the Skipper's Wife": This is way funny and gives wonderful insight on human relationships. I picked it up on a lark and I'm very glad I did.
65. Asimov's December 2007: Liked best: Connie Willis' "All Seated on the Ground" and Jack Skillingstead's "Strangers on a Bus". Liked least: "Galaxy Blues part two". Of the later, how can Mr. Steele create a rich universe and make it so poor. There is no shame in coming with great ideas and giving them to someone else to execute.
66. Randall Jarrell "The Bat-Poet": A good, talking about real nature kids book. It subtly brings in real animal characteristics while anthropomorphizing them enough to make a kids story. Nice mix I think. Wonderful illustrations by Maurice Sendak.
67. Beatrix Potter "The Tale of Peter Rabbit": Yes, I reread this classic. It had been so long I didn't remember it at all.
62. Michael J. Tougias "There's a Porcupine in My Outhouse": Funny. The naturalist bits are fairly well interwoven so they don't come off too guidebook like. The self-discovery, self-enlightenment books are thankfully brief. Self-discovery is a wonderful thing, but best when it's kept to yourself.
63. Nicholson Baker "Vox": Exotic erotica for people who aren't very sexually creative. Wild for the mild. Got it for free, I think I paid the right price.
64. James W. Balano "The Log of the Skipper's Wife": This is way funny and gives wonderful insight on human relationships. I picked it up on a lark and I'm very glad I did.
65. Asimov's December 2007: Liked best: Connie Willis' "All Seated on the Ground" and Jack Skillingstead's "Strangers on a Bus". Liked least: "Galaxy Blues part two". Of the later, how can Mr. Steele create a rich universe and make it so poor. There is no shame in coming with great ideas and giving them to someone else to execute.
66. Randall Jarrell "The Bat-Poet": A good, talking about real nature kids book. It subtly brings in real animal characteristics while anthropomorphizing them enough to make a kids story. Nice mix I think. Wonderful illustrations by Maurice Sendak.
67. Beatrix Potter "The Tale of Peter Rabbit": Yes, I reread this classic. It had been so long I didn't remember it at all.
